Word origins

• expulsiveTending to expel or resulting in expulsion.
• expulsorySynonym of expulsive.
• expunctionThe act of expunging or erasing.
• expurgateTo edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
• exquireTo search into or out.
• exquisitionAn inquiry, research.
• ex rerum naturaFrom the nature of things; from the nature of the case; from nature; applied to arguments based on observation or experiment, as opposed to pure reason.
• exsanguiousDestitute of blood; bloodless.
• exscindTo cut out.
• exscribeTo copy down onto paper; to transcribe.
• 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.
• exsiccateTo dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.
• exsiccatumA dried specimen such as that in a herbarium.
• ex situOutside its original position or place.
• exsolveTo separate from one another at a critical point in temperature.
• exspoliationSpoliation.
• exspuitionThe act of spitting.
• exsuccousWithout juice or sap; completely dry.
• exsuctionThe act of sucking out.
• exsufflicateempty and inflated; frivolous
• ExsultetA long prayer traditionally pronounced or sung at the Easter Vigil, beginning “Rejoice!” or “Exult!” in English.
• exsuscitateTo rouse; to excite.
• exsuscitationA stirring up; a rousing.
• extanceEmergence.
• extancyThe state of rising above others, or a projection.
• extemporalExtemporaneous.
• extemporaneaThat which is extemporaneous; something effortless but transient or superficial.
• ex temporecarried out with no preparation; impromptu
• extenseextent; expanse
• extenuatoryTending to extenuate or palliate.
• exterminableCapable of being exterminated.
• exterminatrixA woman who exterminates.
• exterraneousforeign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad or outside
• extersionThe act of wiping or rubbing out.
• extillTo drop or distill.
• extimulateTo stimulate.
• extineexine
• extispexSomebody who predicts the future using entrails
• extispiciousPertaining to divination by examining entrails.
• extispicySynonym of haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
• extra-Outside of, beyond.
• extrabellumOutside of wartime; during peacetime.
• extra dictionemNot deriving from the linguistic expression used; for a reason other than of ambiguity, division, et cetera.
• extraforaneousOutdoor.
• extrageneousBelonging to another race, type or kind.
• extramissionEmission.
• extra-naturalSupernatural.
• ExtravagantesWithin the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, those papal decretals not contained in certain canonical collections which possess a special authority.
• 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.
• exuviaeThe coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods.
• 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.
• fabaceousHaving the nature of a bean; like a bean.
• 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.
• fabularOf, or pertaining to, fables.
• fabulateTo tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
• fabulosityFabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
• faceteFacetious.
• faciendThe multiplicand.
• faciendumSomething that must be done.
• facientOne who does something; a doer; an agent.
• facinorousExtremely wicked.
• factitiveTaking a complement that expresses a result along with a direct object, or inherently implying a complement; or synonymous with causative.
• factrixA female factor (agent or representative).
• -factureUsed to form nouns denoting the process of producing or making something.
• faculaA bright spot or patch between sunspots.
• facundiouseloquent; wordy
• facundityeloquence; loquaciousness
• falcateShaped like a sickle.
• falcatedSynonym of falcate.