12-letter words containing u, x, o
- folie a deux — the sharing of delusional ideas by two people who are closely associated.
- fox squirrel — any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- heterosexual — of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- homosexually — In a homosexual way.
- junction box — an enclosure that houses electric wires or cables that are joined together and protects the connections.
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
- metro-sexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- metrosexuals — Plural form of metrosexual.
- myxedematous — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
- myxomycetous — of or relating to a slime mold.
- neutron flux — the rate of flow of neutrons through a specified area
- nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- nonexecution — Failure to execute or perform.
- nonexecutive — a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
- nontextually — In a nontextual manner.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- open texture — the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- overexposure — excessive exposure, especially of photographic film or a sensitized plate to light rays.
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- oxycellulose — any substance formed naturally or synthetically by the oxidation of cellulose.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- peroxy group — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- postexposure — occurring after a photo or image has been taken
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- quixotically — In a quixotic manner.
- sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
- six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- 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
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- unexplorable — to traverse or range over (a region, area, etc.) for the purpose of discovery: to explore the island.
- unorthodoxly — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
- unoxygenated — not enriched with oxygen