12-letter words containing i, x, o, n
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- overexertion — to exert excessively.
- overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
- oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
- paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- peroxidation — a type of reaction in which oxygen atoms are formed leading to the production of peroxides. It is stimulated in the body by certain toxins and infections
- phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
- polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
- praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
- pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
- reannexation — the act or process of reannexing something
- retroflexion — a bending backward.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- shooting box — a small house or lodge for use during the shooting season.
- six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- spinning box — centrifugal box.
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- tetrodotoxin — a neurotoxin, C 11 H 17 N 3 O 3 , occurring in a species of puffer fish: ingestion of the toxin is usually rapidly fatal due to heart failure or asphyxiation; used experimentally to block impulse conduction potential in excitable cells.
- text edition — that edition of a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
- thioxanthene — any of a class of antipsychotics, as thiothixene, used to relieve symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders.
- toxigenicity — the quality of being toxigenic
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
- twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- uranic oxide — uranium dioxide.
- vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- x consortium — A vendor consortium supporting development, evolution and maintenance of the X Window System. The X Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit company. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Consortium, a research group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
- xanthochroia — a condition causing yellow patches on the skin similar to xanthoma
- xanthochroid — of, relating to, or designating races having light-coloured hair and a pale complexion
- xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.