11-letter words containing n, i, x, e
- six-pointer — a football match between two teams in similar positions in the league table, considered as being worth six points as it not only gains the winning team three points but denies three points to the losing team
- sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
- sixth sense — a power of perception beyond the five senses; intuition: His sixth sense warned him to be cautious.
- sixty-seven — a cardinal number, 60 plus 7.
- skinner box — a box used in experiments in animal learning, especially in operant conditioning, equipped with a mechanism that automatically gives the animal food or other reward or permits escape, as by opening a door.
- sound mixer — sb who records film sound
- spermatoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- spermotoxin — a substance toxic to spermatozoa.
- tax evasion — the nonpayment of taxes, as through the failure to report taxable income.
- taxi dancer — a girl or woman employed, as by a dance hall, to dance with patrons who pay a fee for each dance or for a set period of time.
- thiothixene — a potent antipsychotic, C 23 H 29 N 3 O 2 S 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia and related psychoses.
- thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
- thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
- toxic noise — environmental noise which can damage your hearing, for example in an industrial workplace, at a music concert, etc
- toxicogenic — generating or producing toxic products or poisons.
- unexcitable — not excitable; not easily stirred
- unexclusive — not exclusive; able to be accessed by all
- unexercised — not exercised; not practised; not used
- unexpecting — to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of: I expect to read it. I expect him later. She expects that they will come.
- unexperient — not experienced
- unexplained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- unexploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
- unfixedness — the state of being unfixed
- unix weenie — (jargon) (ITS) 1. A derogatory play on "Unix wizard", common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs. "This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have been written by a real Unix weenie." 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of Unix. Often appearing in the context "stupid Unix weenie". See Weenix, Unix conspiracy, weenie.
- unnilhexium — seaborgium.
- uunet pipex — (company) An Internet provider, part of the Unipalm Group. PIPEX launched their Internet service in March 1992, and by November 1993 provided Internet service to 150 customer sites in the UK. Each site is either a complete commercial company or a branch of one, or a public-sector organisation. They provide a commercial internetworking service, with 24-hour support, and a resilient backbone with multiple international links. PIPEX provides for individual users through their "PIPEX Dial" service, and has a number of re-sellers connected to its backbone, including CityScape, Direct Connection and the IBM PC User Group, who also offer such services. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address (Head office): Cambridge ? Address: King St. London EC2V(?)
- venlafaxine — an oral antidepressant, C 17 H 27 NO 2 , that is thought to inhibit neuronal reabsorption of serotonin, norepinephrine, and possibly dopamine.
- vexillation — a group of soldiers in the Roman army, usually comprising a thousand men
- vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
- wine expert — specialist or connoisseur of wines
- witness box — witness stand.
- witness-box — witness stand.
- xenobiology — The speculative biology of extraterrestrial life forms.
- xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
- xenocentric — Of, relating to, or advocating xenocentrism.
- xenodochial — (rare) Friendly to strangers.
- xenodochium — a guesthouse for receiving strangers
- xenogenesis — heterogenesis (def 1).
- xenogenetic — Being of foreign origin; having originated elsewhere.
- xenoglossia — an ability claimed by some mediums, clairvoyants, etc, to speak a language with which they are unfamiliar
- xenographic — Of or pertaining to xenography.
- xenomorphic — in an unusual form; having a strange form.
- xenophobiac — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
- xenophobian — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
- xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
- xeriscaping — environmental design of residential and park land using various methods for minimizing the need for water use.
- xiphisterna — Plural form of xiphisternum.