| acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
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| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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| alexia | (noun) inability to perceive written words | Synonyms: visual aphasia, word blindness |
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| alexic | (adjective) of or relating to or symptomatic of alexia | Synonyms: word-blind |
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| (noun) a person with alexia | - |
| anorexia | (noun) a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite | - |
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| anorexic | (adjective) suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | Synonyms: anorectic |
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| (noun) a person suffering from anorexia nervosa | Synonyms: anorectic |
| anorexigenic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorectic |
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| areflexia | (noun) absence of a reflex; a sign of possible nerve damage | - |
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| autosexing | (noun) (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching | - |
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| bulimarexia | (noun) a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting | Synonyms: binge-purge syndrome, binge-vomit syndrome, bulimia nervosa |
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| cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
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| catalexis | (noun) the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse | - |
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| cathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: charge |
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| cephalexin | (noun) a cephalosporin antibiotic (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribed for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract | Synonyms: Keflex, Keflin, Keftab |
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| chlorhexidine | (noun) a long-lasting liquid antiseptic; used by surgeons to wash their hands before performing surgery | - |
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| coexist | (verb) exist together | Synonyms: cohabit |
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| (verb) coexist peacefully, as of nations | - |
| coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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| complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
| complexion | (noun) the coloring of a person's face | Synonyms: skin color, skin colour |
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| (noun) (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament | - |
| (noun) texture and appearance of the skin of the face | - |
| (noun) a point of view or general attitude or inclination | - |
| (noun) a combination that results from coupling or interlinking | - |
| (verb) give a certain color to | - |
| complexity | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexness |
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| connexion | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connection |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connector |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connection |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, link |
| convexity | (noun) the property possessed by a convex shape | Synonyms: convexness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bulges outward | Synonyms: convex shape |
| deflexion | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: bending, deflection |
| (noun) the amount by which a propagating wave is bent | Synonyms: deflection, refraction |
| (noun) the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position | Synonyms: deflection |
| dorsiflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
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| dyslexia | (noun) impaired ability to learn to read | - |
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| dyslexic | (adjective) of or relating to or symptomatic of dyslexia | - |
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| (adjective) having impaired ability to comprehend written words usually associated with a neurologic disorder | Synonyms: dyslectic |
| (noun) a person who has dyslexia | Synonyms: dyslectic |
| epiplexis | (noun) a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them | - |
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| exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, pinch |
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| (noun) a pressing or urgent situation | - |
| (noun) that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. | - |
| exigent | (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exacting |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant |
| exiguity | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| exiguous | (adjective) extremely scanty | - |
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| exile | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: deportee |
| (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: expat, expatriate |
| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
| exilic | (adjective) of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
| existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
| existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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| (adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
| (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
| existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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| (adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
| (adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
| existing | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existent |
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| (adjective) presently existing | - |
| (adjective) existing in something specified | - |
| exit | (noun) the act of going out | - |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: issue, outlet, way out |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, expiration, going, loss, passing, release |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose the lead | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: get out, go out, leave |
| flexibility | (noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable | Synonyms: flexibleness |
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| (noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped | Synonyms: flexibleness |
| (noun) the trait of being easily persuaded | Synonyms: tractability, tractableness |
| flexible | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexile |
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| (adjective) capable of being changed | - |
| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, conciliatory |
| (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, pliable, pliant |
| (adjective) bending and snapping back readily without breaking | Synonyms: whippy |
| flexibleness | (noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped | Synonyms: flexibility |
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| (noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable | Synonyms: flexibility |
| flexibly | (adverb) with flexibility | - |
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| flexile | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexible |
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| flexion | (noun) act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Synonyms: flexure |
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| (noun) deviation from a straight or normal course | Synonyms: flection, inflection |
| (noun) the state of being flexed (as of a joint) | Synonyms: flection, flexure |
| flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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| genuflexion | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflection |
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| heterosexism | (noun) discrimination in favor of heterosexual and against homosexual people | - |
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| hexine | (noun) a hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series. | - |
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| hyperpyrexia | (noun) extremely high fever (especially in children) | - |
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| indexical | (adjective) of or relating to or serving as an index | - |
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| indexing | (noun) the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve | - |
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| inflexibility | (noun) the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe | Synonyms: rigidity, rigidness |
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| (noun) a lack of physical flexibility | Synonyms: inflexibleness |
| inflexible | (adjective) resistant to being bent | - |
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| (adjective) incapable of change | - |
| (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: sturdy, uncompromising |
| (adjective) incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances | Synonyms: rigid, unbending |
| inflexibleness | (noun) a lack of physical flexibility | Synonyms: inflexibility |
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| inflexibly | (adverb) in an inflexible manner | - |
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| inflexion | (noun) a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function | Synonyms: inflection |
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| lexical | (adjective) of or relating to words | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to dictionaries | - |
| lexicalisation | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalization |
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| lexicalise | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalize |
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| lexicalised | (adjective) expressed by a word | Synonyms: lexicalized |
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| lexicalization | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalisation |
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| lexicalize | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalise |
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| lexicalized | (adjective) expressed by a word | Synonyms: lexicalised |
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| lexically | (adverb) by means of words | - |
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| lexicographer | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicologist |
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| lexicographic | (adjective) of or relating to lexicography | Synonyms: lexicographical |
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| lexicographical | (adjective) of or relating to lexicography | Synonyms: lexicographic |
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| lexicography | (noun) the act of writing dictionaries | - |
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| lexicologist | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicographer |
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| lexicology | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language | - |
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| lexicon | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: mental lexicon, vocabulary |
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| (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: dictionary |
| lexicostatistic | (adjective) pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages | - |
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| lexicostatistics | (noun) a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| lexis | (noun) all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function | - |
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| mexiletine | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Mexitil) used to treat ventricular arrhythmias | Synonyms: Mexitil |
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| nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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| nonexistent | (adjective) not having existence or being or actuality | - |
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| nonlexical | (adjective) not relating to words | - |
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| nonlexically | (adverb) without the use of words | - |
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| perplexing | (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, puzzling |
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| perplexity | (noun) trouble or confusion resulting from complexity | - |
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| plexiglass | (noun) a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic | Synonyms: Plexiglas |
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| pleximeter | (noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | Synonyms: plessimeter |
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| pleximetry | (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: percussion |
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| postexilic | (adjective) of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| preexist | (verb) exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time | - |
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| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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| preexisting | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexistent |
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| pyrexia | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, feverishness |
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| reflexion | (noun) the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material) | Synonyms: reflection |
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| (noun) the ability to reflect beams or rays | Synonyms: reflection, reflectivity |
| (noun) a likeness in which left and right are reversed | Synonyms: mirror image, reflection |
| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflection, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| (noun) a remark expressing careful consideration | Synonyms: observation, reflection |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: expression, manifestation, reflection |
| (noun) the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface | Synonyms: reflection |
| reflexive | (adjective) referring back to itself | Synonyms: self-referent |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: automatic, reflex |
| (noun) a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent | Synonyms: reflexive pronoun |
| reflexively | (adverb) in a reflexive manner; by means of reflexes | Synonyms: reflexly |
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| reflexiveness | (noun) the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent | Synonyms: reflexivity |
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| (noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself | Synonyms: reflexivity |