11-letter words containing a, n, t, o, x
- explanation — A statement or account that makes something clear.
- explanatory — Serving to explain something.
- explication — The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
- exploration — The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.
- expoliation — Obsolete form of exspoliation.
- exponential — Of or expressed by a mathematical exponent.
- exportation — The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.
- expugnation — The act of taking by assault; conquest.
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- exsiccation — The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
- extensional — Of or pertaining to extension.
- extenuation — The act of extenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
- extenuatory — Tending to extenuate or palliate.
- extirpation — The act of extirpating or uprooting.
- extra point — conversion (sense 3)
- extractions — Plural form of extraction.
- extradition — The action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime.
- extrication — The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
- fornicatrix — a woman who commits fornication.
- fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- hepatotoxin — Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hypoxanthin — (organic compound) A crystalline nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, found throughout the animal body but especially in muscle tissue.
- intoxicants — Plural form of intoxicant.
- intoxicated — Archaic. intoxicated.
- intoxicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intoxicate.
- intoxicator — to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, especially to excite or stupefy with liquor.
- juxtaposing — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- lixiviation — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- luxuriation — The act of enjoying or experiencing luxury.
- methoxsalen — a potent compound, C 1 2 H 8 O 4 , derived from the seeds of the plant Ammi majus: used in combination with certain ultraviolet radiation for the treatment of severe psoriasis.
- negotiatrix — (obsolete) A female negotiator.
- non-marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
- nonexistant — Misspelling of nonexistent.
- not exactly — not at all; by no means
- overanxiety — Excessive anxiety.
- oxenstierna — Count Axel [ahk-suh l] /ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1583–1654, Swedish statesman.
- oxidization — the process or result of oxidizing.
- oxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- phallotoxin — any of a group of potent mycotoxins produced by certain mushroom species of the genus Amanita.
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- pixellation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- proximation — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- radix point — a point, such as the decimal point in the decimal system, separating the integral part of a number from the fractional part
- reoxidation — the process or result of oxidizing.
- saint croix — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).