13-letter words containing e, x, m
- midterm exams — exams taken during the middle of a term in a school, university, etc
- mine examiner — an official who inspects a mine to ensure compliance with safety requirements.
- mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- mixed doubles — (in tennis) a doubles match with a man and a woman on each side.
- mixed economy — an economy in which there are elements of both public and private enterprise.
- mixed farming — agriculture: raising both crops and livestock
- mixing faucet — a single outlet for water from separately controlled hot-water and cold-water taps.
- mixter-maxter — chaotic or confused
- murexide test — a test in which treatment of a substance, usually urine, with nitric acid and ammonia indicates the presence of uric acid by formation of murexide.
- nonhomosexual — a person who is not homosexual
- oral examiner — someone who administers oral exams
- oxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- oxymetazoline — a sympathomimetic drug, C 1 6 H 2 4 N 2 O, used as a topical, long-lasting nasal decongestant.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- reexamination — further study or inspection
- reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- semi-flexible — partially flexible; involving or possessing some flexibility
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- sexagesimally — into sixtieths
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
- tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
- terbium oxide — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- time exposure — a long exposure in which the shutter is opened and closed by hand or by a mechanism other than the automatic mechanism of the shutter.
- unexemplified — not exemplified; not clarified by example
- unix man page — Unix manual page
- unix system v — System V
- uranium oxide — any of the compounds of uranium and oxygen, as UO 2 , UO 3 , U 4 O 9 , or U 3 O 8 .
- xerophthalmia — abnormal dryness of the eyeball characterized by conjunctivitis, caused by a deficiency of tears and attributed to a lack of vitamin A.
- xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
- yttrium oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, Y 2 O 3 , used chiefly in incandescent gas and acetylene mantles.