5 Letter Words That Start With EX

excel

Verb : (transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

Verb : (intransitive) To be much better than others.

Verb : (transitive, archaic, rare) To exceed, to go beyond

exist

Verb : (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality

exert

Verb : To put in vigorous action.

Verb : To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.

exude

Verb : (transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

Verb : (intransitive) To flow out through the pores.

Verb : (transitive) To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.

extra

Adjective : (not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.

Adjective : (not comparable, dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.

Adjective : (comparable, slang) Over the top; going beyond what is normal or appropriate, often in a dramatic manner.

extol

Verb : To praise; to make high.

exact

Adjective : Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

Adjective : Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

Adjective : Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

exalt

Verb : (transitive) To honor; to hold in high esteem.

Verb : (transitive) To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.

Verb : (transitive) To elate, or fill with the joy of success.

exile

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.

Noun : (countable) Someone who is banished from his home or country.

Verb : (transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.

expel

Verb : To eject or erupt.

Verb : (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To remove from membership.

expat

Noun : An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country.

exult

Verb : (intransitive) To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph.

exeat

Noun : A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).

Noun : A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.

Noun : (dated, UK) Leave of absence from a public school or college.

exurb

Noun : A residential area beyond the suburbs.

exine

Noun : (botany, palynology) the outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium.

exode

Noun : (obsolete) departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

Noun : (Ancient Greek drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.

Noun : (historical, Ancient Rome) A comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.

exapt

Verb : (evolution) To exhibit exaptation; To repurpose a pre-existing adaptation.

exits

Noun : (historical) Income, returns, revenue.

expos

Noun : An exposition (type of public exhibition).

Noun : An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables.

exams

Verb : (sciences) Shortened form of examine

Noun : (informal) Clipping of examination, especially when meaning test or in compound terms. [The act of examining.]

exons

Noun : An officer of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.

Noun : (genetics) A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule.

Noun : A surname

exfil

Noun : (chiefly military) Clipping of exfiltration (“the act of going out of a place”). [(military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).]

Noun : (computing) Clipping of exfiltration (“covert extraction of data”). [(military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).]

exite

Noun : An additional lobe on the outer side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.

execs

Noun : (informal) executive, executive officer

Verb : (computing, informal) To execute; to run.

exect

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To cut off or out.

extro

excon

exlex

Noun : (archaic) An outlaw.

exord

Noun : (US, military) An execute order: an order to implement a specified plan.

Noun : (literature) A preface or prefatory passage

exter

excur

Verb : (rare) To digress.

Verb : (rare) To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an extreme.

Verb : (rare) To take an excursion.

exton

Noun : A village in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9886).

Noun : A village and civil parish in Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6121).

Noun : A village in Exton and Horn parish, Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK9211).

excom

exody

Noun : Obsolete form of exodus. [A sudden departure of a large number of people.]

exley

Noun : A surname from Old English.

exsec

Noun : (trigonometry) Abbreviation of exsecant. [(trigonometry) The trigonometric function sec(x) − 1. Abbreviation: exsec]

exuma

Noun : A district of the Bahamas consisting of over 365 islands and cays, including Great and Little Exuma.

ex pat

explo

exper

exies

Noun : (Tyneside, slang) Clipping of Exhibition Park in Newcastle upon Tyne.

exafs

Noun : Initialism of extended X-ray absorption fine structure.

exing

Noun : The name of the Latin-script letter X.

Verb : To delete; to cross out

Verb : (slang) To extinguish the life of.

exdol

exner

Noun : A surname.

ex con

ex lax

exptl

excld

exene

exome

Noun : (genetics) The complete exon content of an organism or individual; the subset of the genome that excludes introns.

ex all

ex rel

exped

ex im

ex off

exec 2

exeem

Verb : Alternative form of exeme [(transitive, Scotland) To release; to exempt.]

ex lib

exten

ex-im

Noun : Export-Import Bank of the United States

ex div

exell

Noun : A surname.

exxon

Noun : A brand of petroleum fuel.

Noun : A former petrochemical company, now part of ExxonMobil.

ex new

exakt

exec 8

exame

exdir

exdis

exigu

exire

ex pit

excap

exclu

exfor

exils

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.

Noun : (countable) Someone who is banished from his home or country.

Verb : (transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.

expwy

Noun : Abbreviation of expressway. [(Upper Midwestern US) A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.]

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