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13-letter words containing i, x, o

  • nitrous oxide — a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
  • non-excitable — easily excited: Prima donnas had the reputation of being excitable and temperamental.
  • non-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
  • non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • non-executive — Someone who has a non-executive position in a company or organization gives advice but is not responsible for making decisions or ensuring that decisions are carried out.
  • non-existence — absence of existence.
  • nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
  • nonintoxicant — a substance that is not an intoxicant
  • normal matrix — a square matrix A for which AA* = A*A, where A* is the Hermitian conjugate of A
  • obnoxiousness — highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
  • oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
  • one's sixties — the ages between 60–69
  • onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
  • opsonic index — the ratio of the number of bacteria destroyed by phagocytes in the blood of a test patient to the number destroyed in the blood of a normal individual
  • oral examiner — someone who administers oral exams
  • orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
  • osa extension — (OSAX) Any extension to Macintosh OSA.
  • over-exercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
  • over-exerting — to exert excessively.
  • overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
  • overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
  • 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.
  • paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
  • phenoxy resin — any of a class of resins derived from polyhydroxy ethers
  • phototoxicity — damage, esp to the skin, as a result of exposure to light
  • phytotoxicity — the state of being phytotoxic
  • pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • praxiological — the study of human conduct.
  • preexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
  • prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
  • 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.
  • rotation axis — an imaginary line through a crystal about which the crystal may be rotated a specified number of degrees and be brought back to its original position.
  • 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.
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • 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.
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
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