| extra | (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: duplicate |
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| (noun) an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis) | - |
| (noun) a minor actor in crowd scenes | Synonyms: spear carrier, supernumerary |
| extract | (noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection |
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| (noun) a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) | Synonyms: infusion |
| extractant | (noun) an immiscible liquid used to extract a substance from another liquid. | - |
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| extraction | (noun) the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force) | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, origin |
| (noun) the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means | - |
| extractivity | (noun) the amount of extract that grains of malt yield. | - |
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| extractor | (noun) an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components | - |
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| (noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: centrifuge, separator |
| (noun) a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector | Synonyms: cartridge extractor, cartridge remover |
| extradition | (noun) the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) | - |
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| extrados | (noun) the exterior curve of an arch | - |
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| extraneity | (noun) The state of not forming an essential or vital part. | Synonyms: extraneousness |
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| extraneousness | (noun) The state of not forming an essential or vital part. | Synonyms: extraneity |
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| (noun) unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand | - |
| extraordinariness | (noun) the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered | - |
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| extrapolation | (noun) (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function outside the range of known values | - |
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| (noun) an inference about the future (or about some hypothetical situation) based on known facts and observations | - |
| extrasystole | (noun) a premature systole resulting in a momentary cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| extraterrestrial | (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: alien, extraterrestrial being |
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| extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
| (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
| extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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| extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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| extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
| (noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extravert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
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| extreme | (noun) the furthest or highest degree of something | - |
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| (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme point, extremum |
| extremeness | (noun) the quality of being extreme | - |
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| extremism | (noun) any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies | - |
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| extremist | (noun) a person who holds extreme views | - |
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| extremity | (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: appendage, member |
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| (noun) that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso | - |
| (noun) the outermost or farthest region or point | - |
| (noun) the greatest or utmost degree | - |
| (noun) an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease) | - |
| extremum | (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme, extreme point |
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| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: peak |
| extrication | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, unsnarling, untangling |
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| extropy | (noun) the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe | - |
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| extrospection | (noun) examination or observation of what is outside oneself, as opposed to introspection. | - |
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| extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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| extrovert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
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| extrusion | (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: expulsion |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |