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

  • 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.
  • hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
  • 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
  • inexplicability — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
  • inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
  • 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.
  • jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
  • juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • 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.
  • low bandwidth x — (networking)   (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
  • 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.
  • maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
  • microextraction — (chemistry) A technique used to extract small amounts of material from a mixture.
  • non-exhaustible — to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
  • 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
  • nonintoxicating — Not intoxicating; not causing drunkenness.
  • nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
  • over-extraction — an act or instance of extracting: the extraction of a molar.
  • overexpectation — excessive expectation
  • oxidation state — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
  • oxidizing agent — a substance that oxidizes another substance, being itself reduced in the process. Common oxidizing agents are oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, and ferric salts
  • oxytetracycline — a dull-yellow, crystalline antibiotic powder, C 2 2 H 2 4 N 2 O 9 , produced by Streptomyces rimosus, used chiefly in treating infections caused by streptococci, staphylococci, Gram-negative bacilli, rickettsiae, and certain protozoans and viruses.
  • photoexcitation — the creation of an increase in energy in atoms, molecules or ions caused by the absorption of a photon
  • prefix notation — (language)   (Or "prefix syntax") One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in prefix notation the function precedes all its operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "(+ 1 2)". A few languages (e.g., lisp) have strictly prefix syntax, many more employ prefix notation in combination with infix notation. The opposite, postfix notation, is somewhat rarer.
  • recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • relaxation time — the time that it takes for an exponentially decaying quantity, as radioactive particles or transient electrical currents, to decrease to 36.8 percent of its initial value.
  • sinistrodextral — moving or extending from the left to the right.
  • sixth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to a trial by jury in criminal cases.
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