5 Letter Words That Start With EX

exalt

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

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

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

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.

expel

Verb : (transitive) To eject.

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

Verb : (transitive) To remove from membership.

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.

exert

Verb : (transitive) To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material; to bring to bear.

Verb : (reflexive) To put in vigorous action.

extol

Verb : (transitive) To praise; to make high.

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.

exult

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

excur

Verb : (rare) To digress.

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

Verb : (rare) To take an excursion.

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

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.

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, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) Leave of absence from a public school or college.

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.

exord

Noun : (literature) A preface or prefatory passage

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

exurb

Noun : A residential area beyond the suburbs.

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).]

Verb : Clipping of exfiltrate. [(military, transitive) To withdraw (troops) surreptitiously from a dangerous position.]

expat

Noun : An expatriate; a person temporarily residing in a foreign nation, usually a poorer one, often for an occupation, training, or education.

exect

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

excon

exlex

Noun : (archaic) An outlaw.

exome

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

exjam

execx

Noun : Abbreviation of executrix. [(chiefly law) A female executor; a woman appointed to execute a will.]

expec

exec.

Noun : Abbreviation of executive. [A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.]

Noun : Abbreviation of executor. [A person who carries out some task.]

Noun : (law) Abbreviation of executive. [A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.]

exch.

Noun : (law) Abbreviation of exchange. [An act of exchanging or trading.]

Noun : (UK) Abbreviation of Exchequer. [(British) The government department that collects and manages revenue.]

Noun : Abbreviation of exchange. [An act of exchanging or trading.]

excl.

Adjective : Abbreviation of excluding.

Adjective : Abbreviation of exclusive. [(literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.]

Noun : Abbreviation of excellency. [Synonym of excellence; the quality of being excellent.]

exept

exine

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

expos

Noun : An exposition (type of public exhibition).

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

exits

Noun : (historical) Income, returns, revenue.

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

exams

Noun : (informal) A clipping of examination, especially when meaning test or in compound terms.

Verb : (sciences) Shortened form of examine

extro

ex all

ex con

exody

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

ex rel

execs

Noun : (informal) An executive; a person employed at the executive level.

Noun : (military; informal) An executive officer, i.e the chief assistant to the commanding officer.

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

exptl

Noun : Abbreviation of exponential. [(mathematics) Any function that has an exponent as an independent variable.]

exite

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

exafs

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

ex-im

Noun : Export-Import Bank of the United States

exner

Noun : A surname from German.

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).

exapt

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

expwy

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

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exley

Noun : A surname from Old English.

exter

exuma

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

ex div

ex im

excom

exies

Noun : (slang) Expenses (charged to one's employer).

ex doc

ex lib

ex new

ex off

ex pat

exclu

Noun : an encrypted messaging app that was shut down after a series of international raids in February 2023.

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exeem

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

exing

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

Verb : To delete; to cross out

Verb : (slang) To extinguish the life of.

exper

explo

exsec

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

exbi-

exell

Noun : A surname.

exxon

Noun : A brand of petroleum fuel.

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

ex/vi

exfat

Noun : (computing) Initialism of extended file allocation table, a 64-bit derivative of the FAT family of file systems.

ex lax

ex pit

ex vi

exame

excap

excld

exdec

exdir

exdis

exdol

exfor

exped

expen

exrep

exsum

extel

Noun : The Exchange Telegraph Co. Ltd. (also known as Extel) was created in March 1872 specifically to distribute financial and business information from the London Stock Exchange and other commercial markets direct to subscribers.

exten

extrn

extry

Adjective : (dialectal) extra

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