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13-letter words containing e, x, o

  • 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.
  • phenoxy resin — any of a class of resins derived from polyhydroxy ethers
  • 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).
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • preexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
  • proparoxytone — having an accent or heavy stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
  • protected sex — sexual activity during which a condom is used to protect against sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy.
  • proxy gateway — proxy server
  • 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.
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
  • sex addiction — an addiction to sexual activity
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • sex education — Sex education is education in schools on the subject of sexual activity and sexual relationships.
  • sex selection — the practice of attempting to control the sex of a baby in order to achieve a desired sex, through various scientific methods
  • sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
  • sexualization — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
  • soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
  • soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
  • spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
  • spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
  • stannic oxide — a white, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, SnO 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramic glazes and glass, and of polishing powders for metal, glass, and marble.
  • start of text — (character)   (STX) Mnemonic for ASCII 2.
  • sulfisoxazole — a white to yellowish, crystalline, slightly bitter sulfonamide, C 1 1 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 S, used chiefly in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract.
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tax collector — sb employed to gather taxes
  • tax deduction — an expenditure that is deducted from taxable income.
  • tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • telephone box — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
  • 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.
  • titanic oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, TiO 2 , used chiefly in white pigments, plastics, ceramics, and for delustering synthetic fibers.
  • underexposure — inadequate exposure, as of photographic film.
  • unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
  • unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
  • uranium oxide — any of the compounds of uranium and oxygen, as UO 2 , UO 3 , U 4 O 9 , or U 3 O 8 .
  • vercingetorix — died 45? b.c, Gallic chieftain conquered by Caesar.
  • vexillologist — the study of flags.
  • visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
  • vortex street — a regular stream of vortices or parallel streams of vortices carried downstream by the flow of a fluid over a body. These are sometimes made visible by vapour condensation as in the vortex trails from the wing tips of an aeroplane
  • wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
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