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14-letter words containing a, n, x, i

  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • existentialism — A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
  • existentialist — A person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
  • expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • expansion slot — (hardware)   A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. The connector supplies power to the card and connects it to the data bus, address bus and control signals of the motherboard.
  • expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
  • experientially — In terms of experience.
  • experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • exponentiation — The operation of raising one quantity to the power of another.
  • expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
  • expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
  • exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
  • extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
  • extension lead — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • extensionality — extensional equality
  • exterior angle — an angle of a polygon contained between one side extended and the adjacent side
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extortionately — In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.
  • extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
  • extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • extraordinaire — Outstanding or remarkable in a particular capacity.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • francis xavierSaint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
  • free expansion — the expansion of a gas into an evacuated space without the transfer of heat or the performance of work.
  • guangxi zhuang — an administrative division in S China. 85,096 sq. mi. (220,399 sq. km). Capital: Nanning.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • hexosaminidase — the enzymes that catalyse the metabolism of gangliosides
  • hypomixolydian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the last of the eight scales
  • imaginary axis — the vertical axis in an Argand diagram.
  • inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
  • inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
  • inexterminable — Impossible to exterminate.
  • infix notation — (language)   One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in infix notation the functions are placed between their operands, such as "1+2". Although infix notation is limited to binary functions most languages mix infix notation with prefix or postfix notation, as a form of syntactic sugar.
  • inframaxillary — (anatomy) Under the lower jaw; submaxillary.
  • intermaxillary — Between the maxillae.
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