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12-letter words containing l, e, x, i

  • hexasiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any siloxane having six -Si-O- groups.
  • hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
  • homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
  • hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
  • index fossil — a widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, regarded as characteristic of a given geological formation, used especially in determining the age of related formations.
  • index-linked — index (def 25).
  • indexicality — (philosophy) The quality or state of being indexical.
  • inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
  • inexecutable — That cannot be executed or carried out.
  • inexpansible — unable to be expanded
  • inexplicable — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
  • inexplicably — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
  • inexplicitly — not explicit or clear; not clearly stated.
  • inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
  • inexpungible — that cannot be expunged, erased, or obliterated; inextirpable.
  • inextensible — not extensible; incapable of being extended or stretched.
  • inextirpable — incapable of being extirpated: inextirpable disease.
  • inextricable — from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
  • inextricably — from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
  • inoxidizable — not susceptible to oxidation.
  • intermaxilla — (anatomy) premaxilla.
  • intertextual — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
  • laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
  • lead dioxide — a brown crystalline compound, PbO 2 , toxic, insoluble in water and alcohol, soluble in glacial acetic acid: used as an oxidizing agent, in lead-acid batteries, and in analytical chemistry.
  • lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
  • letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
  • lex talionis — the principle or law of retaliation that a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; retributive justice.
  • lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lexicologist — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
  • linux loader — (operating system)   (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
  • lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  • little foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
  • maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
  • maxillectomy — Surgical removal of the maxilla.
  • methohexital — a barbiturate anesthetic, used in its sodium form, C 1 4 H 1 7 N 2 NaO 3 , for induction of general anesthesia or for anesthesia of short duration.
  • miller index — one of three integers giving the orientation and position of the face of a crystal in terms of the reciprocals, in lowest terms, of the intercepts of the face with each axis of the crystal.
  • mixing valve — a valve receiving water from both a hot-water and a cold-water line and controlling the relative amount of water admitted from each.
  • multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
  • multiplexing — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
  • neutral axis — an imaginary line in the cross section of a beam, shaft, or the like, along which no stresses occur.
  • next in line — person: front of queue
  • nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
  • non-flexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • nonexpansile — Not expansile.
  • nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
  • 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.
  • one-line fix — Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system. Usually "cured" by another one-line fix. See also I didn't change anything!
  • over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
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