12-letter words containing n, o, x
- exterminator — Someone or something that exterminates.
- extortionary — Of, relating to, or typical of extortion.
- extortionate — (of a price) much too high; exorbitant.
- extortioners — Plural form of extortioner.
- extortionist — A person who tries to obtain something through force or violence; a racketeer.
- extra-strong — stronger than average; very strong
- extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- extrasensory — Of or relating to extrasensory perception.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- extrordinary — Misspelling of extraordinary.
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
- flexuousness — The state or condition of being flexuous.
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- gao xingjian — born 1940, French novelist and playwright, born in China: Nobel Prize 2000.
- generation x — the generation born between about 1966 and 1980, especially in the U.S.
- genotoxicity — (uncountable) The condition of being genotoxic.
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- grayanotoxin — a toxin found in the nectar of some species of rhododendron and other plants of the family Ericaceae and in food made from their nectar, as unpasteurized honey, poisonous to humans and animals.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexacosanoic — as in hexacosanoic acid
- hexadecanoic — Of or pertaining to hexadecanoic acid or its derivatives.
- hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
- hexasiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any siloxane having six -Si-O- groups.
- high-context — preferring to communicate in person, rather than by electronic methods such as email
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hydroxyl ion — hydroxide ion
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- hypoxanthine — a white, crystalline, almost water-soluble, alkaloidal purine derivative, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, found in animal and vegetable tissues: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- in excess of — more than
- 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.
- innocent xii — (Antonio Pignatelli) 1615–1700, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1691–1700.
- inoxidizable — not susceptible to oxidation.
- intoxicating — Archaic. intoxicated.
- intoxication — inebriation; drunkenness.
- 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.
- junction box — an enclosure that houses electric wires or cables that are joined together and protects the connections.
- 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.