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12-letter words containing s, e, x, n

  • laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
  • 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.
  • lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  • lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
  • magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
  • mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
  • neutral axis — an imaginary line in the cross section of a beam, shaft, or the like, along which no stresses occur.
  • ninety-sixth — next after the ninety-fifth; being the ordinal number for 96.
  • non-existent — absence of existence.
  • non-existing — to have actual being; be: The world exists, whether you like it or not.
  • nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • nonexistence — absence of existence.
  • nonexpansile — Not expansile.
  • nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
  • nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
  • nuisance tax — a tax paid in small but frequent amounts, usually by consumers.
  • oropharynxes — Plural form of oropharynx.
  • over-anxious — excessively anxious.
  • over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
  • pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
  • pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
  • pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
  • polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
  • pony express — a former system in the American West of carrying mail and express by relays of riders mounted on ponies, especially the system operating (1860–61) between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • protosynthex — A query system for English text.
  • punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
  • sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
  • sexagenarian — of the age of 60 years or between 60 and 70 years old.
  • sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
  • sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
  • six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
  • six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
  • sixteenpenny — noting a nail 3½ inches (9 cm) long. Symbol: 16d.
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
  • texas ranger — a member of the Texas state police force or, especially formerly, of the mounted state police.
  • trans-sexual — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
  • transfer tax — a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property
  • twenty-sixer — a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity
  • twenty-sixth — next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
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