13-letter words containing e, x, o, t, r, i
- extrasystolia — (medicine) An alteration in the rhythm of the heart due to extrasystoles.
- extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
- extratropical — Occurring outside the tropics, usually in temperate latitudes.
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- extroversions — Plural form of extroversion.
- generation xl — overweight children or young adults of the generation that spends a great deal of time on sedentary pursuits such as surfing the internet and playing computer games
- hetero-sexism — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
- hypertoxicity — the quality, relative degree, or specific degree of being toxic or poisonous: to determine the toxicity of arsenic.
- import-export — international trade and exchange of goods, products and services
- inexorability — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- neurotoxicity — the degree to which a substance is poisonous to nerve tissue.
- nitrous oxide — a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
- orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
- over-exerting — to exert excessively.
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- overextension — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- reexamination — further study or inspection
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- rotation-axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of 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.
- vercingetorix — died 45? b.c, Gallic chieftain conquered by Caesar.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- 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.