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15-letter words containing a, n, e, x, i

  • experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
  • experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
  • expiration date — when food product is no longer fresh
  • explain oneself — to make clear what one means
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
  • extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
  • extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
  • extended family — relatives
  • extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
  • exteriorisation — Mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised.
  • exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
  • external spline — any one of a series of narrow keys formed longitudinally around the circumference of a shaft that fit into corresponding grooves (internal splines) in a mating part: used to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
  • externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
  • externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • extraordinaries — things that exceed the usual order, kind, or method
  • extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
  • extrinsicalness — Quality of being extrinsical.
  • eye examination — an eye test
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • glycaemic index — an index indicating the effects of various foods on blood sugar. Fast-releasing foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly are high on the index, while slow-releasing foods, at the bottom of the index, give a slow but sustained release of sugar
  • hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
  • hang seng index — an index of share prices based on an average of 33 stocks quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
  • heat exhaustion — a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.
  • identity matrix — a matrix that has 1 in each position on the main diagonal and 0 in all other positions.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
  • inexplicability — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
  • inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
  • infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • inheritance tax — a tax levied on the right of an heir to receive a decedent's property, the rate being a percentage of the value of the property.
  • interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
  • intertextuality — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
  • magnesium oxide — magnesia.
  • manganese oxide — a type of metallic oxide used to colour glass purple
  • matrix sentence — Linguistics. a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In The man who called is waiting, The man is waiting is a matrix sentence.
  • mexican spanish — Spanish as used in Mexico. Abbreviation: MexSp.
  • microextraction — (chemistry) A technique used to extract small amounts of material from a mixture.
  • mixolydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G.
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