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12-letter words containing e, x, c

  • malt extract — a sweet, gummy substance derived from an infusion of malt.
  • maxillectomy — Surgical removal of the maxilla.
  • meat extract — a preparation containing the concentrated essence of meat
  • medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
  • methoxychlor — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 1 5 Cl 3 O 2 , used as an insecticide.
  • mexican jade — Mexican onyx artificially colored green.
  • mexican onyx — a translucent, banded variety of calcite, used for ornamental and decorative pieces.
  • mexican wave — If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.
  • motor cortex — the region of the cerebral cortex concerned with transmitting impulses to the voluntary muscles.
  • myxomycetous — of or relating to a slime mold.
  • nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
  • nitric oxide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble gas, NO, formed by the action of dilute nitric acid on copper, and by the direct combination of atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen at the high temperatures of an electric arc: an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric acid.
  • no exception — If you make a general statement, and then say that something or someone is no exception, you are emphasizing that they are included in that statement.
  • nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • nonexecution — Failure to execute or perform.
  • nonexecutive — a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
  • nonexistence — absence of existence.
  • nuisance tax — a tax paid in small but frequent amounts, usually by consumers.
  • over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
  • over-excited — If you say that someone is over-excited, you mean that they are more excited than you think is desirable.
  • overexercise — to exercise excessively
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
  • oxyacetylene — noting or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and acetylene: an oxyacetylene torch.
  • oxycellulose — any substance formed naturally or synthetically by the oxidation of cellulose.
  • oxygen cycle — the process by which oxygen released into the atmosphere by photosynthetic organisms is taken up by aerobic organisms while the carbon dioxide released as a by-product of repiration is taken up for photosynthesis.
  • oxygen lance — a tube for conveying oxygen, used in various thermal cutting or steelmaking operations.
  • photoexcited — increased in energy due to photoexcitation
  • plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
  • purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
  • reexperience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
  • self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
  • sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
  • sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
  • sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
  • six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
  • six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
  • super-exceed — to go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc.: to exceed the speed limit.
  • tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
  • toxic effect — an adverse effect of a drug produced by an exaggeration of the effect that produces the therapeutic response
  • toxigenicity — the quality of being toxigenic
  • unexceptable — to exclude; leave out: present company excepted.
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