14-letter words containing s, e, x, i
- explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
- explosion shot — a shot used in hitting a ball from a sand trap, in which the sand just behind the ball rather than the ball itself is struck with full force
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
- expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
- expressiveness — The quality of being expressive; expressivity.
- expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- extensibleness — The quality of being extensible.
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extension lead — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- extension ring — a spacer element that can be fixed between the camera body and the lens to increase the distance between film and lens and allow closer focus than would be possible without it
- extensionality — extensional equality
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
- extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- field exercise — a military exercise in which mock warfare is staged between two forces.
- file extension — filename extension
- floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- free expansion — the expansion of a gas into an evacuated space without the transfer of heat or the performance of work.
- hair extension — attached length of hair
- herpes simplex — either of two herpes diseases caused by a herpesvirus that infects humans and some other animals and produces small, transient blisters on the skin or mucous membranes, one type of virus (herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1) usually associated with oral herpes but also causing genital herpes and the other (herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2) usually causing genital herpes.
- hexosaminidase — the enzymes that catalyse the metabolism of gangliosides
- high explosive — a class of explosive, as TNT, in which the reaction is so rapid as to be practically instantaneous, used in shells and bombs.
- hostile sexism — a theory that sexism toward women is multidimensional, one form (hostile sexism) reflecting negative views of women who challenge traditional gender roles, and the other form (benevolent sexism) reflecting positive views of women who conform to these roles.
- hydroperoxides — Plural form of hydroperoxide.
- hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
- hyperextension — the extension of a part of the body beyond normal limits.
- hypersexualise — Alternative spelling of hypersexualize.
- hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
- hypersexualize — To make extremely sexual; to accentuate the sexuality of.
- in the sixties — during the 1960s
- index register — (processor) A register found in some CPUs, whose contents can be added to the address operand to give the effective address. Incrementing the index register then allows the program to access the next location in memory and so on, making it very useful for working with arrays or blocks of memory. Index registers first appeared around April 1949 in the Manchester Mark I. The Mark I's index register's contents were simply added to the entire instruction, thus potentially changing the opcode (see The story of Mel)!
- inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- inexplicitness — The state or condition of being inexplicit.
- inexpressibles — underwear
- inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
- intersexuality — Having the physical features of both sexes.
- kegel exercise — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.