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13-letter words containing s, e, x

  • jacob s coxey — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
  • levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • lexical scope — (programming)   (Or "static scope") When the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile time to some region in the source code containing the identifier's declaration. This means that an identifier is only accessible within that region (including procedures declared within it). This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time. Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks) containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ECMAScript), or some larger unit of code (e.g. ?). The former is known as static nested scope.
  • low explosive — a relatively slow-burning explosive, usually set off by heat or friction, used for propelling charges in guns or for ordinary blasting.
  • lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • luxuriousness — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
  • magnetic axis — the straight line joining the two poles of a magnet, as the poles of the earth
  • marx brothers — the. a US family of film comedians, esp Arthur Marx, known as Harpo (1888–1964), Herbert Marx, known as Zeppo (1901–79), Julius Marx, known as Groucho (1890–1977), and Leonard Marx, known as Chico (1886–1961). Their films include Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Day at the Races (1937)
  • mesityl oxide — an oily, colorless liquid, C 6 H 1 0 O, having a honeylike odor: used chiefly as a solvent and in the manufacture of synthetic organic compounds.
  • midterm exams — exams taken during the middle of a term in a school, university, etc
  • mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
  • mixed doubles — (in tennis) a doubles match with a man and a woman on each side.
  • murexide test — a test in which treatment of a substance, usually urine, with nitric acid and ammonia indicates the presence of uric acid by formation of murexide.
  • nitrous oxide — a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
  • non-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
  • non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • non-existence — absence of existence.
  • nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
  • nonhomosexual — a person who is not homosexual
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • obnoxiousness — highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
  • oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
  • one's sixties — the ages between 60–69
  • onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
  • opsonic index — the ratio of the number of bacteria destroyed by phagocytes in the blood of a test patient to the number destroyed in the blood of a normal individual
  • osa extension — (OSAX) Any extension to Macintosh OSA.
  • over-exercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
  • overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
  • overextension — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
  • parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
  • perplexedness — the quality or state of being perplexed
  • phenoxy resin — any of a class of resins derived from polyhydroxy ethers
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • pre-existence — to exist beforehand.
  • prefix syntax — prefix notation
  • protected sex — sexual activity during which a condom is used to protect against sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy.
  • reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
  • ring exercise — any sequence of gymnastic movements carried out by a gymnast holding two rings suspended from the ceiling
  • rotation-axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • sacral plexus — a nerve network originating from the nerves of the sacral spine and innervating large areas of the lower trunk and legs, especially via the sciatic nerves.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • self-existent — existing independently of any cause, as God.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
  • semi-flexible — partially flexible; involving or possessing some flexibility
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