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14-letter words containing i, n, o, x

  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • exhibitionists — Plural form of exhibitionist.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
  • expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • expansion card — (hardware)   A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
  • expansion slot — (hardware)   A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. The connector supplies power to the card and connects it to the data bus, address bus and control signals of the motherboard.
  • expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • explosion shot — a shot used in hitting a ball from a sand trap, in which the sand just behind the ball rather than the ball itself is struck with full force
  • exponentiation — The operation of raising one quantity to the power of another.
  • export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
  • export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
  • expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
  • expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
  • expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
  • exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
  • extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
  • extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
  • extension lead — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • extension ring — a spacer element that can be fixed between the camera body and the lens to increase the distance between film and lens and allow closer focus than would be possible without it
  • extensionality — extensional equality
  • exterior angle — an angle of a polygon contained between one side extended and the adjacent side
  • extortionately — In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.
  • extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • extraordinaire — Outstanding or remarkable in a particular capacity.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
  • file extension — filename extension
  • flexible joint — A flexible joint is a coupling which can transmit torque between two shafts which are not aligned.
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • free expansion — the expansion of a gas into an evacuated space without the transfer of heat or the performance of work.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • hexosaminidase — the enzymes that catalyse the metabolism of gangliosides
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • hydroxyproline — a nutritionally nonessential amino acid, C 5 H 9 NO 3 , found chiefly in collagen.
  • hyperexcretion — excessive excretion
  • hyperextension — the extension of a part of the body beyond normal limits.
  • hypomixolydian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the last of the eight scales
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • immunotoxicity — The toxic effect of an immunotoxin on the immune system.
  • inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
  • infix notation — (language)   One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in infix notation the functions are placed between their operands, such as "1+2". Although infix notation is limited to binary functions most languages mix infix notation with prefix or postfix notation, as a form of syntactic sugar.
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