13-letter words containing t, a, x, e
- part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
- 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.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- proparoxytone — having an accent or heavy stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
- proxy gateway — proxy server
- reexamination — further study or inspection
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- 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.
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- sex addiction — an addiction to sexual activity
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- sex education — Sex education is education in schools on the subject of sexual activity and sexual relationships.
- sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
- sexual health — health care and counselling related to sexual relations, reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, etc
- sexualization — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
- soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
- stannic oxide — a white, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, SnO 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramic glazes and glass, and of polishing powders for metal, glass, and marble.
- start of text — (character) (STX) Mnemonic for ASCII 2.
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
- tax collector — sb employed to gather taxes
- tax deduction — an expenditure that is deducted from taxable income.
- tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
- tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
- tax incentive — measure to encourage activity
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
- texas leaguer — a pop fly that falls safely between converging infielders and outfielders.
- texas rangers — a member of the Texas state police force or, especially formerly, of the mounted state police.
- texture paint — a finish paint having an insoluble additive, as sand, for giving a slightly rough textural effect.
- titanic oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, TiO 2 , used chiefly in white pigments, plastics, ceramics, and for delustering synthetic fibers.
- unexaggerated — not exaggerated or overblown
- unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
- unexpectantly — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
- unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
- unextractable — to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force: to extract a tooth.
- vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- x-certificate — a film classification indicating a film that may not be publicly shown to anyone under 18. Since 1982 replaced by symbol 18
- x-ray burster — a celestial source from which bursts of x-rays are received.
- x-ray therapy — treatment of a disease using controlled quantities of x-rays.
- xerophthalmia — abnormal dryness of the eyeball characterized by conjunctivitis, caused by a deficiency of tears and attributed to a lack of vitamin A.
- xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.