16-letter words containing o, a, x
- exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
- exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
- exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
- expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
- expectant mother — a pregnant woman
- experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
- exponential-time — (complexity) The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
- extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
- exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
- extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
- extracorporeally — Outside the body.
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- flynn's taxonomy — (architecture) A classification of computer architectures based on the number of streams of instructions and data: Multiple instruction/single data stream (MISD) - unusual.
- for external use — If medicine is for external use, it is intended to be used only on the outside of your body, and not to be eaten or drunk.
- foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
- forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
- grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
- greater-doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
- healthcare proxy — a legal document in which a person can appoint someone to make decisions about medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer mentally competent or able to communicate.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- hexachloroethane — a colorless crystalline compound, C 2 Cl 6 , with a camphorlike odor, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in organic synthesis and pyrotechnics, as a retarding agent in fermentation, and as a solvent.
- hexahydroaniline — cyclohexylamine.
- hexahydrobenzene — cyclohexane.
- hexanedioic acid — adipic acid.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
- law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
- lexicostatistics — the statistical study of the vocabulary of a language or languages for historical purposes.
- locomotor ataxia — tabes dorsalis.
- lost-wax process — a process of investment casting in which a refractory mold is built up around a pattern of wax and then baked so as to melt and drain off the wax.
- mason-dixon line — the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the end of slavery as a line of demarcation between free and slave states.
- maximilian armor — full plate armor of the early 16th century, representing a combination of Italian and German styles and characterized by extensive use of fluting for lightness and strength.
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
- mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system) (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
- neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
- no fixed address — Someone who is of no fixed address does not have a permanent place to live.
- non-experiential — pertaining to or derived from experience.
- non-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
- non-intoxicating — causing or capable of causing intoxication: intoxicating beverages.