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12-letter words containing i, m, x, e

  • extremophile — A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity, or chemical concentration.
  • extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
  • fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
  • fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
  • german sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth
  • haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
  • hemotoxicity — Toxicity that affects the blood (especially that affects red blood cells).
  • heterosexism — a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.
  • homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
  • index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
  • intermaxilla — (anatomy) premaxilla.
  • intermixture — a mass of ingredients mixed together.
  • ipsedixitism — An unfounded, false and dogmatic assertion.
  • lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
  • magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
  • maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
  • maxillectomy — Surgical removal of the maxilla.
  • medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • methohexital — a barbiturate anesthetic, used in its sodium form, C 1 4 H 1 7 N 2 NaO 3 , for induction of general anesthesia or for anesthesia of short duration.
  • 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.
  • miller index — one of three integers giving the orientation and position of the face of a crystal in terms of the reciprocals, in lowest terms, of the intercepts of the face with each axis of the crystal.
  • misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
  • mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
  • mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
  • mixing valve — a valve receiving water from both a hot-water and a cold-water line and controlling the relative amount of water admitted from each.
  • multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
  • multiplexing — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
  • 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.
  • pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
  • premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
  • proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
  • semiflexible — moderately or somewhat flexible.
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
  • time-expired — (of a cheque) that has lapsed and is no longer valid
  • vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
  • xiphisternum — The lowest part of the sternum; the xiphoid process.
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