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15-letter words containing a, x

  • cyclohexylamine — a highly toxic and hazardous organic chemical derived from cyclohexane
  • dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
  • desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
  • diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • direct taxation — Direct taxation is a system in which a government raises money by means of direct taxes.
  • disintoxication — detoxification (def 4).
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • electra complex — the sexual attachment of a female child to her father
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • exaggeratedness — the quality of being exaggerated
  • examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
  • exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
  • excess capacity — unused production capacity
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • exhaustlessness — the quality of being exhaustless
  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • existentialists — Plural form of existentialist.
  • expanded memory — (storage)   Memory used through EMS. In systems based on Intel 80386 or later processor expanded memory is part of the extended memory that is mapped into the expanded memory page frame by the processor. The mapping is controlled by the EMM. In earlier systems, a dedicated EMS hardware adaptor is needed to map memory into the page frame. In both cases, an appropriate device driver is needed for the proper communication between hardware and EMM.
  • expansion joint — structural feature: gap to allow for expansion or contraction
  • expense account — account for expenses
  • experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
  • experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
  • experimentalism — An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts.
  • experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
  • experimentalize — (transitive) To make experiments upon.
  • experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
  • experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
  • expiration date — when food product is no longer fresh
  • explain oneself — to make clear what one means
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
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