15-letter words containing t, e, x, i
- inexplicability — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
- inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
- inheritance tax — a tax levied on the right of an heir to receive a decedent's property, the rate being a percentage of the value of the property.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- intertextuality — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- juice extractor — device: squeezes juice from fruit
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
- matrix bar code — a type of 2D bar code that stores data in a matrix of geometrically shaped dark and light cells that represent bits. See also QR code.
- matrix compiler — Early matrix computations on UNIVAC. Sammet 1969, p.642.
- matrix sentence — Linguistics. a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In The man who called is waiting, The man is waiting is a matrix sentence.
- microextraction — (chemistry) A technique used to extract small amounts of material from a mixture.
- microsoft excel — (tool) A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
- mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
- neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
- next to no time — a very short time
- next to nothing — very little
- nitrogen fixing — involved in or aiding the process of nitrogen fixation.
- nitrogen oxides — Nitrogen oxides are compounds of nitrogen and oxygen produced during combustion.
- nitrogen-fixing — involved in or aiding the process of nitrogen fixation.
- non-exhaustible — to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
- non-flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- nonexperimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- nonexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
- nonexploitative — not exploitative
- outside the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
- over-excitement — to excite too much.
- over-extraction — an act or instance of extracting: the extraction of a molar.
- overexpectation — excessive expectation
- overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
- oxidation state — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
- oxidizing agent — a substance that oxidizes another substance, being itself reduced in the process. Common oxidizing agents are oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, and ferric salts
- oxytetracycline — a dull-yellow, crystalline antibiotic powder, C 2 2 H 2 4 N 2 O 9 , produced by Streptomyces rimosus, used chiefly in treating infections caused by streptococci, staphylococci, Gram-negative bacilli, rickettsiae, and certain protozoans and viruses.
- pentium ii xeon — (processor) The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache.
- photoexcitation — the creation of an increase in energy in atoms, molecules or ions caused by the absorption of a photon
- portable pixmap — (file format) (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
- post office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- post-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- prefix notation — (language) (Or "prefix syntax") One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in prefix notation the function precedes all its operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "(+ 1 2)". A few languages (e.g., lisp) have strictly prefix syntax, many more employ prefix notation in combination with infix notation. The opposite, postfix notation, is somewhat rarer.
- proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
- recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
- reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
- relaxation time — the time that it takes for an exponentially decaying quantity, as radioactive particles or transient electrical currents, to decrease to 36.8 percent of its initial value.
- sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
- self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
- self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.