10-letter words containing x
- ex-service — having formerly served in the armed forces
- exacerbate — Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
- exactingly — In an exacting manner.
- exactitude — Exactness, accuracy; attention to small details.
- exaggerate — Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
- exaltation — A feeling or state of extreme happiness.
- exam board — an organization that sets and corrects exams, especially GCSEs and A levels
- exam paper — a paper with examination questions printed on it set to test the knowledge of examination candidates
- examinable — Able to be examined.
- examinator — An examiner.
- exaptation — (biology) The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
- exarchates — Plural form of exarchate.
- exasperate — Irritate intensely; infuriate.
- excavating — Present participle of excavate.
- excavation — The action of excavating something, esp. an archaeological site.
- excavators — Plural form of excavator.
- exceedance — An instance where an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by medical or legal practice.
- excellence — The quality of being outstanding or extremely good.
- excellency — A title given to certain high officials of state, especially ambassadors, or of the Roman Catholic Church, or used in addressing them.
- excellento — (slang) excellent.
- except for — You use except for to introduce the only thing or person that prevents a statement from being completely true.
- exceptions — A person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule.
- exceptious — prone to taking exception or raising objections
- exceptless — without exception
- excerpting — Present participle of excerpt.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- exchangers — Plural form of exchanger.
- exchanging — Present participle of exchange.
- exchequers — Plural form of exchequer.
- excipients — Plural form of excipient.
- excise tax — a tax on goods, such as spirits, produced for the home market
- excisional — Performed by excision.
- excitation — The application of energy to a particle, object, or physical system, in particular.
- excitative — Causing excitation.
- excitatory — Characterized by, causing, or constituting excitation.
- exciteable — (dated) alternative spelling of excitable.
- excitement — A feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness.
- excitingly — In an exciting manner.
- excitonics — (physics) The study of excitons.
- exclaiming — Present participle of exclaim.
- exclosures — Plural form of exclosure.
- exclusions — Plural form of exclusion.
- exclusives — Plural form of exclusive.
- excogitate — Think out, plan, or devise.
- excoriated — Simple past tense and past participle of excoriate.
- excoriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excoriate.
- excreation — (obsolete) The act of spitting out.
- excrements — Plural form of excrement.
- excrescent — Forming or constituting an excrescence.
- excretions — Plural form of excretion.