Word origins

• exquisitionAn inquiry, research.
• exsanguiousDestitute of blood; bloodless.
• exscriptA copy; a transcript.
• exsectTo cut out or away; to remove by exsection.
• exsectionA cutting out or away.
• exsertTo thrust out; to cause to protrude.
• exsiccantHaving the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
• exspoliationSpoliation.
• exsuctionThe act of sucking out.
• exsuscitateTo rouse; to excite.
• exsuscitationA stirring up; a rousing.
• extanceEmergence.
• extancyThe state of rising above others, or a projection.
• extemporalExtemporaneous.
• ex temporecarried out with no preparation; impromptu
• extenuatoryTending to extenuate or palliate.
• exterminableCapable of being exterminated.
• exterraneousforeign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad or outside
• extersionThe act of wiping or rubbing out.
• extillTo drop or distill.
• extimulateTo stimulate.
• extineexine
• extispiciousPertaining to divination by examining entrails.
• extra-Outside of, beyond.
• extraforaneousOutdoor.
• extrageneousBelonging to another race, type or kind.
• extramissionEmission.
• extra-naturalSupernatural.
• extravenateThat has been let out of the veins.
• extro-outward, outwards.
• extroitiveSeeking or going out after external objects.
• extructTo construct.
• extructionA building up; a construction.
• extuberantswelling or sticking out; protuberant
• extuberateTo swell out.
• extuberationprotuberance
• extumescenceA swelling or rising.
• exuberateTo abound; to be in great abundance.
• exulcerateVery sore; ulcerated.
• exulcerationulceration
• exultancyexultance, exultation
• exundateTo overflow; to inundate.
• exundationAn overflow, flooding or overflowing abundance.
• exungulateTo pare off (nails, the hoof, flowers etc.).
• exuperancesuperiority; superfluity
• exuperantexcessive or superfluous
• exuperateTo defeat, surmount, or overcome
• exurgentArising or emergent.
• exustionThe act or operation of burning up.
• exuvialRelated to something sloughed off or stripped away.
• exuviateTo shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
• exuviumSynonym of exuviae.
• ex-votoAn offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.
• f.Fahrenheit.
• fabiformShaped like a bean
• fabrefactionthe process or act of creating or developing, as of a work of art
• fabricableAble to be shaped into a finished product.
• fabrilePertaining to a factory, or to stonework, metalwork, woodwork, etc.
• fabulateTo tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
• fabulosityFabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
• faceteFacetious.
• faciendThe multiplicand.
• facientOne who does something; a doer; an agent.
• factitiveTaking a complement that expresses a result along with a direct object, or inherently implying a complement; or synonymous with causative.
• -factureUsed to form nouns denoting the process of producing or making something.
• facundiouseloquent; wordy
• falcatedSynonym of falcate.
• falcerOne of the mandibles of a spider.
• falcidianOf or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.
• falcigerA seta that has a curved tip.
• faldageA privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
• faldistoryA movable seat place in the chancel, where the bishop sat.
• FaliscanA member of an ancient Italic people who lived in southern Etruria
• FalisciThe Faliscan people.
• fallencyAn exception (to a rule).
• falsaryA falsifier of evidence.
• falsidicalHaving a false basis.
• familiaryOf or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
• familismThe beliefs or practice of the Family of Love religious sect, active in sixteenth century England.
• famosityThe state or quality of being famous.
• far be itA disclaimer stating that something should not come to pass, or that a person would never do or think a certain thing.
• farinogramA recording made with a farinograph.
• farinographA device for measuring properties of flour mixed with water, such as its shear and viscosity.
• farraginousConsisting of a random, miscellaneous, or indiscriminate mixture; akin to a farrago.
• FarsalaA town in north-central Fthiotida prefecture, Greece.
• fascinAn actin-bundling protein.
• fascinousCaused or acting by witchcraft.
• fascinumAn ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
• fastidiumrepugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat
• fastuousproud; haughty; disdainful
• fatidicOf or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
• fatidicalHaving power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.
• fatiferousFate-bringing; deadly; destructive.
• fatiloquentprophetic; speaking of fate.
• faucalRelating to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial.
• faucialPertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
• faunusHorned god of the forest, plains and fields.
• fautorPatron, protector.
• fautressA patroness.
• favaginousResembling a honeycomb; cellular.