15-letter words containing a, x, e, l
- externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- extracellularly — In an extracellular manner.
- extracurricular — (of an activity at a school or college) Pursued in addition to the normal course of study.
- extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
- extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
- extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
- extrinsicalness — Quality of being extrinsical.
- 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.
- fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
- fixed satellite — a satellite in a geostationary orbit
- gas-guzzler tax — a tax imposed on the purchase price of an automobile not meeting fuel efficiency standards.
- gluteus maximus — the broad, thick, outermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the rotation and extension of the thigh.
- 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
- hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
- hexachlorophene — a white, crystalline powder, C 13 Cl 6 H 6 O 2 , insoluble in water: used as an antibacterial agent chiefly in toothpastes and soaps.
- hexahydrothymol — menthol.
- homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- 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.
- 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
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexical meaning — the meaning of a base morpheme.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lexicologically — Describing a relation to lexicology.
- 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.
- matrix compiler — Early matrix computations on UNIVAC. Sammet 1969, p.642.
- mixolydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G.
- mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
- muscle relaxant — A muscle relaxant is any drug which relaxes muscles and may be used to treat muscle spasms and muscle pain.
- needle exchange — A needle exchange is a place where drug addicts are able to obtain new syringes in exchange for used ones.
- non-exculpatory — tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.
- non-exhaustible — to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
- nonexchangeable — capable of being exchanged.
- nonexperimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- nonexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
- nonexploitative — not exploitative
- olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.