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12-letter words containing i, x, o, r

  • nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
  • 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.
  • over-anxious — excessively anxious.
  • over-excited — If you say that someone is over-excited, you mean that they are more excited than you think is desirable.
  • 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.
  • overexercise — to exercise excessively
  • overexertion — to exert excessively.
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
  • overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
  • 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
  • postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
  • 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
  • proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
  • reannexation — the act or process of reannexing something
  • retroflexion — a bending backward.
  • six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
  • six-year-old — being six years in age
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
  • sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
  • 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.
  • toxocariasis — the infection of humans with the larvae of a genus of roundworms, Toxocara, of dogs and cats. It can cause swelling of the liver and, sometimes, damage to the eyes
  • trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
  • 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
  • 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.
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