excavation | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: mining |
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(noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, digging |
(noun) a hole in the ground made by excavating | - |
(noun) the site of an archeological exploration | Synonyms: archeological site, dig |
excavator | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, power shovel, shovel |
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(noun) a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying | - |
exceedance | (noun) (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time | - |
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excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
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(noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
excellency | (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellence |
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excelsior | (noun) thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing | Synonyms: wood shavings |
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exception | (noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: elision, exclusion |
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(noun) an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization | - |
(noun) grounds for adverse criticism | - |
excerpt | (noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerption, extract, selection |
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excerption | (noun) The act of excerpting or selecting from a larger work. | - |
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(noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerpt, extract, selection |
excess | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: overindulgence |
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(noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excessiveness, inordinateness |
(noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: nimiety, surplus, surplusage |
(noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: overabundance, surfeit |
excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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exchange | (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: interchange |
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(noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, substitution |
(noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: interchange |
(noun) the act of giving something in return for something received | - |
(noun) (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value | - |
(noun) (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop | - |
(noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: rally |
(noun) a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members | - |
(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: central, telephone exchange |
(noun) a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one) | - |
(noun) chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another | - |
exchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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exchanger | (noun) one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country | Synonyms: money changer |
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exchequer | (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: treasury |
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excise | (noun) a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) | Synonyms: excise tax |
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exciseman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman |
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excision | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, extirpation |
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(noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: deracination, extirpation |
(noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excommunication |
(noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, deletion |
excitability | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitableness, volatility |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: irritability |
excitableness | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, volatility |
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excitant | (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
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excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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(noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
(noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
excitotoxin | (noun) any of a group of neurologically active compounds, such as glutamate and aspartame, that have detrimental excitatory effects on the central nervous system when taken in high concentrations. | - |
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exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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exclamation | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclaiming |
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(noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: ecphonesis |
(noun) a loud complaint or protest or reproach | - |
exclusion | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, riddance |
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(noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: elision, exception |
(noun) the state of being excluded | - |
(noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, excommunication |
exclusive | (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
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exclusiveness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, cliquishness |
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excogitation | (noun) thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | - |
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(noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, innovation, invention |
excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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excommunication | (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excision |
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(noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, exclusion |
excoriation | (noun) severe censure | - |
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(noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, scrape, scratch |
excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
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(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
excreta | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excrement, excretion, excretory product |
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excreting | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excretion, voiding |
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excretion | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding |
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(noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product |
excruciation | (noun) the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | Synonyms: crucifixion |
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(noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, suffering |
exculpation | (noun) the act of freeing from guilt or blame | - |
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(noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, excuse, self-justification |
excursion | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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(noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: digression |
excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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excursus | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis |
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excuse | (noun) a poor example | Synonyms: apology |
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(noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, exculpation, self-justification |
(noun) a note explaining an absence | - |
excuser | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: forgiver, pardoner |
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