12-letter words containing e, x, u, r
- intertexture — the act of interweaving or the condition of being interwoven.
- latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
- lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- metro-sexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- metrosexuals — Plural form of metrosexual.
- mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
- multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
- neutral axis — an imaginary line in the cross section of a beam, shaft, or the like, along which no stresses occur.
- neutron flux — the rate of flow of neutrons through a specified area
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- open texture — the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- overexposure — excessive exposure, especially of photographic film or a sensitized plate to light rays.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- peroxy group — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- postexposure — occurring after a photo or image has been taken
- purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
- quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
- rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
- rubber latex — the milky sap of any of several trees of the genus Hevea, especially H. brasiliensis, from which natural rubber is derived.
- running text — the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.
- sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
- solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
- super-exceed — to go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc.: to exceed the speed limit.
- superexpress — a superexpress train
- supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
- trans-sexual — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- unexplorable — to traverse or range over (a region, area, etc.) for the purpose of discovery: to explore the island.
- unexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression of meaning, feeling, etc.: a bland and unexpressive person.
- unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
- uranic oxide — uranium dioxide.
- xenocurrency — currency circulating or traded in money markets of countries outside its country of issue.
- xiphisternum — The lowest part of the sternum; the xiphoid process.