| alexandrite | (noun) a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone | - |
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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 | - |
| apoplexy | (noun) a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain | Synonyms: cerebrovascular accident, CVA, stroke |
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| areflexia | (noun) absence of a reflex; a sign of possible nerve damage | - |
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| catalexis | (noun) the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse | - |
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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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| circumflex | (noun) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | - |
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| complex | (adjective) complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to analyze or understand | Synonyms: complicated |
| (noun) a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures | Synonyms: building complex |
| (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: composite |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior | - |
| (noun) a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated | Synonyms: coordination compound |
| 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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| complexly | (adverb) in a complex manner | - |
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| complexness | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexity |
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| 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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| duplex | (adjective) allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously | - |
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| (adjective) (used technically of a device or process) having two parts | - |
| (noun) an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase | Synonyms: duplex apartment |
| (noun) a house with two units sharing a common wall | Synonyms: duplex house, semidetached house |
| (verb) change into a duplex | - |
| 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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| flex | (noun) the act of flexing | - |
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| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, turn, twist |
| (verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: bend |
| (verb) form a curve | Synonyms: bend |
| (verb) contract | - |
| (verb) exhibit the strength of | - |
| 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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| flexor | (noun) a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint | Synonyms: flexor muscle |
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| flexuous | (adjective) having turns or windings | - |
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| flexure | (noun) act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Synonyms: flexion |
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| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, fold, plication |
| (noun) the state of being flexed (as of a joint) | Synonyms: flection, flexion |
| genuflexion | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflection |
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| googolplex | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol) | - |
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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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| isolex | (noun) an isogloss marking off the area in which a particular item of vocabulary is found. | - |
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| lexeme | (noun) a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go' | - |
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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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| multiplex | (adjective) having many parts or aspects | - |
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| (adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms | Synonyms: manifold |
| (noun) a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building | - |
| (noun) communicates two or more signals over a common channel | - |
| multiplexer | (noun) a device that can interleave two or more activities | - |
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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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| perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| perplexed | (adjective) full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | - |
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| perplexedly | (adverb) in a perplexed manner | Synonyms: confoundedly |
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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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| plexor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: percussor, plessor |
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| plexus | (noun) a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels | Synonyms: rete |
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| pollex | (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: thumb |
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| quadruplex | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate |
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| reflex | (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: automatic, reflexive |
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| (noun) an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Synonyms: inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex |
| reflexed | (adjective) (of leaves) bent downward and outward more than 90 degrees | - |
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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 |
| reflexivity | (noun) the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent | Synonyms: reflexiveness |
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| (noun) (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself | Synonyms: reflexiveness |
| reflexly | (adverb) in a reflexive manner; by means of reflexes | Synonyms: reflexively |
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| reflexology | (noun) massage to relieve tension by finger pressure; based on the belief that there are reflex points on the feet, hands, and head that are connected to every part of the body | - |
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| (noun) the study of reflex action as it relates to the behavior of organisms | - |
| retroflex | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflexed |
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| (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: cacuminal |
| (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| retroflexed | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| retroflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward | Synonyms: retroflection |
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| (noun) an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth | Synonyms: retroflection |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroversion |
| silex | (noun) a pure form of finely ground silica | - |
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| simplex | (adjective) having only one part or element | - |
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| (adjective) allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time | - |
| telex | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, teletypewriter, telex machine |
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| (verb) communicate by telex | - |
| triplex | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: ternary, treble, triple |
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| unperplexed | (adjective) experiencing no difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | - |
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