Words starting with ex

Words and definitions

Ex- means: A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.

Exacerrated means: of Exacerbate

Exacerrating means: of Exacerbate

Exacerbate means: To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

Exacerbation means: The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

Exacerbation means: A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.

Exacerbescence means: Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

Exacervation means: The act of heaping up.

Exacinate means: To remove the kernel form.

Exacination means: Removal of the kernel.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.