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12-letter words containing n, e, x, i, o

  • innocent xii — (Antonio Pignatelli) 1615–1700, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1691–1700.
  • inoxidizable — not susceptible to oxidation.
  • intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
  • ion exchange — the process of reciprocal transfer of ions between a solution and a resin or other suitable solid.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
  • maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
  • medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • mexican onyx — a translucent, banded variety of calcite, used for ornamental and decorative pieces.
  • nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
  • nitric oxide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble gas, NO, formed by the action of dilute nitric acid on copper, and by the direct combination of atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen at the high temperatures of an electric arc: an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric acid.
  • no exception — If you make a general statement, and then say that something or someone is no exception, you are emphasizing that they are included in that statement.
  • non-existent — absence of existence.
  • non-existing — to have actual being; be: The world exists, whether you like it or not.
  • 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.
  • nonexecution — Failure to execute or perform.
  • nonexecutive — a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
  • nonexistence — absence of existence.
  • 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
  • nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
  • 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-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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • 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
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