13-letter words containing i, n, e, x
- overextension — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
- 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
- pre-existence — to exist beforehand.
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- re-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- 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.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- ring exercise — any sequence of gymnastic movements carried out by a gymnast holding two rings suspended from the ceiling
- 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.
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
- self-existent — existing independently of any cause, as God.
- self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
- seventy-sixth — next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
- 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.
- six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
- sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
- soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
- 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.
- subject index — alphabetical contents list
- tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
- tax deduction — an expenditure that is deducted from taxable income.
- tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
- tax incentive — measure to encourage activity
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- texture paint — a finish paint having an insoluble additive, as sand, for giving a slightly rough textural effect.
- titanic oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, TiO 2 , used chiefly in white pigments, plastics, ceramics, and for delustering synthetic fibers.
- unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
- unexclusively — in an unexclusive manner
- unexemplified — not exemplified; not clarified by example
- unexperienced — wise or skillful in a particular field through experience: an experienced teacher.
- unexplainable — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- unexplainably — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- 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 .
- vercingetorix — died 45? b.c, Gallic chieftain conquered by Caesar.
- 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
- xenodiagnosis — a method of diagnosing certain diseases caused by insects, ticks, or other vectors, by allowing uninfected vectors to feed on the patient and later examining them for infections.
- zf expression — (programming) (After Zermelo Fränkel set theory). David Turner's name for list comprehension.