12-letter words containing o, x, t, a, i
- explantation — The act of explanting.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- exploitation — The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
- exploitative — In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something.
- explorations — Plural form of exploration.
- exponentiate — (mathematics) To utilize exponentiation.
- expositional — Explained in clear terms, as in writing.
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- expropriated — Simple past tense and past participle of expropriate.
- expropriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expropriate.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- exspoliation — (obsolete) spoliation.
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- exterminator — Someone or something that exterminates.
- extortionary — Of, relating to, or typical of extortion.
- extortionate — (of a price) much too high; exorbitant.
- extraditions — Plural form of extradition.
- extralogical — Outside of the domain of logic.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- extrordinary — Misspelling of extraordinary.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- foxtail lily — eremurus
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- generation x — the generation born between about 1966 and 1980, especially in the U.S.
- 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.
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
- hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
- 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.
- intoxicating — Archaic. intoxicated.
- intoxication — inebriation; drunkenness.
- intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
- 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.
- 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.
- maxillectomy — Surgical removal of the maxilla.
- maximisation — Alternative spelling of maximization.
- maximization — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- 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.
- mixing ratio — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in the air to the mass of the dry air, a measure of atmospheric humidity.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
- oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
- 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
- phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
- quixotically — In a quixotic manner.