adnexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: annexa |
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adnexal | (adjective) of or pertaining to adnexa | Synonyms: annexal |
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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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annexal | (adjective) of or pertaining to adnexa | Synonyms: adnexal |
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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 |
annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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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 |
exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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(verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
exacerbating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exasperating |
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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 |
exact | (adjective) marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact | - |
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(adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: accurate, precise |
(adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: direct |
(verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
(verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
exacta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order | Synonyms: perfecta |
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exacting | (adjective) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures | Synonyms: fastidious |
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(adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exigent |
(adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: stern, strict |
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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exactly | (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: just, precisely, properly |
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(adverb) in a precise manner | Synonyms: incisively, precisely |
(adverb) just as it should be | Synonyms: on the button, on the dot, on the nose, precisely |
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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exaggerate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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(verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: overdo |
exaggerated | (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: overdone, overstated |
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(adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: enlarged, magnified |
exaggeratedly | (adverb) in an exaggerated manner | Synonyms: hyperbolically |
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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 |
exalt | (verb) raise in rank, character, or status | - |
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(verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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 |
exalted | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
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exalting | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: ennobling |
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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 |
examine | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, study |
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(verb) question closely | - |
(verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: probe |
(verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: see |
(verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, prove, test, try, try out |
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 |
exanimate | (adjective) deprived of life; no longer living | Synonyms: lifeless |
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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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exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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(verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
(verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
exasperated | (adjective) greatly annoyed; out of patience | Synonyms: browned off, cheesed off |
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exasperating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: infuriating, maddening, vexing |
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(adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating |
exasperatingly | (adverb) in an exasperating manner | - |
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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 |
exaugural | (adjective) occurring at or marking the close of a term of office | - |
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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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hexadecimal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base | Synonyms: hex |
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hexagon | (noun) a six-sided polygon | - |
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hexagonal | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexangular |
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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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hexangular | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexagonal |
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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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inexact | (adjective) not exact | - |
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inexactitude | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactness |
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inexactly | (adverb) in an imprecise manner | Synonyms: imprecisely |
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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 |
reexamine | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: review |
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sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
sexagesimal | (adjective) of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths | - |
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unexacting | (adjective) not rigorous | - |
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unexampled | (adjective) having no previous example or precedent or parallel | Synonyms: new |
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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 |
vexatious | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexing |
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vexatiously | (adverb) in a vexatious manner | - |
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