17-letter words containing a, t, r, x, i, c
- causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
- clear box testing — white box testing
- cross-examination — to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely.
- document examiner — (hypertext, tool) A high-performance hypertext system by Symbolics that provides on-line access to their user documentation.
- exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
- exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
- experience rating — Experience rating is a method of adjusting the premium for a risk based on past loss experience for that risk compared to loss experience for an average risk.
- hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
- ichthyosarcotoxin — a term applied to any poison found in the flesh of poisonous fishes.
- indirect taxation — duty paid on goods or services
- lexical insertion — the process in which actual morphemes of a language are substituted either for semantic material or for place-fillers in the course of a derivation of a sentence
- literary executor — a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.
- nitroxanthic acid — picric acid.
- pituitary extract — a preparation of the pituitary gland, used in medicine for the therapeutic effects of its hormones
- saint croix river — 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).
- sparc xterminal 1 — (computer) Sun's lowest cost networked Unix desktop, it is board-upgradeable to a SPARC 4. It comes with a choice of frame buffers: 8-bit colour, Turbo GX, or Turbo GX plus. This product was expected to replace the SPARCclassic X. UK availability was planned for March 1995.
- stochastic matrix — a square matrix with positive entries totaling 1 in each row.
- textual criticism — lower criticism.
- therapeutic index — the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect.
- vacuum extraction — applying suction to a baby's head during birth to help it emerge
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- x-ray diffraction — diffraction of x-rays by the regularly spaced atoms of a crystal, useful for determining the arrangement of the atoms.
- xerox corporation — (company) A US company, founded in 1906, specialising in document related technology and services including photocopiers, printers and office software. Xerox's acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services added business process and document management to their product range. In 2013 they have 140,000 employees. Their research centre, XEROX PARC, prototyped several revolutionary advances in computing, which the company failed to exploit, including the WIMP desktop metaphor and XEROX Network Services.
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