| adnexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: annexa |
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| alexandrite | (noun) a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone | - |
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| annexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: adnexa |
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| annexation | (noun) the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | - |
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| (noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: appropriation |
| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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| cyclohexanol | (noun) a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor | - |
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| dexamethasone | (noun) a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation | Synonyms: Decadron, Dexamethasone Intensol, Dexone, Hexadrol, Oradexon |
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| exabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 petabits or 10^18 bits | Synonyms: Eb, Ebit |
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| exabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes | Synonyms: EB, EiB, exbibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytes | Synonyms: EB |
| exacerbation | (noun) violent and bitter exasperation | - |
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| (noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: aggravation |
| exacta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order | Synonyms: perfecta |
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| exactingness | (noun) the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding. | - |
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| exaction | (noun) act of demanding or levying by force or authority | - |
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| exactitude | (noun) the quality of being exact | Synonyms: exactness |
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| exactness | (noun) the quality of being exact | Synonyms: exactitude |
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| exaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: EFLOPS |
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| exaggeration | (noun) the act of making something more noticeable than usual | - |
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| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: magnification, overstatement |
| (noun) extravagant exaggeration | Synonyms: hyperbole |
| exaltation | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, deification |
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| (noun) a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead) | - |
| (noun) the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence | - |
| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, raptus, transport |
| exaltolide | (noun) the macrocyclic lactone having fifteen carbon atoms; it has a musky scent, similar to exaltone. | - |
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| exam | (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: examination, test |
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| examen | (noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examination |
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| (noun) a critical study (as of a writer's work) | - |
| examination | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: scrutiny |
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| (noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: testing |
| (noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examen |
| (noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, test |
| (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogatory |
| examinee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: testee |
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| examiner | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: inspector |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: quizzer, tester |
| example | (noun) a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: illustration, instance, representative |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: exemplar, good example, model |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) punishment intended as a warning to others | Synonyms: deterrent example, lesson, object lesson |
| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, instance |
| exanthem | (noun) eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: exanthema, skin eruption |
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| exanthema | (noun) eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: exanthem, skin eruption |
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| exarch | (noun) a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire | - |
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| (noun) a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan | - |
| (noun) a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America | - |
| exarchate | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: eparchy |
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| exasperation | (noun) actions that cause great irritation (or even anger) | - |
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| (noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: aggravation |
| hexachlorophene | (noun) antibacterial substance that is a water-soluble powder used in antiseptic soaps and toothpaste | - |
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| hexad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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| hexagon | (noun) a six-sided polygon | - |
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| hexagram | (noun) a regular polygon formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon to form two equilateral triangles | - |
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| hexahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having six plane faces | - |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| hexameter | (noun) a verse line having six metrical feet | - |
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| hexane | (noun) a colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent | - |
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| hexapod | (noun) an animal having six feet | - |
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| indexation | (noun) a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation | - |
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| inexactitude | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactness |
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| inexactness | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactitude |
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| methotrexate | (noun) toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: amethopterin, methotrexate sodium |
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| reexamination | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, followup, review |
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| (noun) (law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examination | Synonyms: redirect examination |
| sexagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
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| vexation | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, irritation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, headache, worry |
| (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, chafe |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, irritation |