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12-letter words containing x, c, e, r

  • extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
  • extralogical — Outside of the domain of logic.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
  • extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
  • extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
  • exulceration — the process of ulceration
  • ferric oxide — a dark-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, Fe 2 O 3 , occurring naturally, as hematite and rust, or synthesized: used chiefly as a pigment, as a mordant, as a coating for magnetic recording tape, and in the manufacture of polishing compounds.
  • fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
  • fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • frederick ix — (Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg) 1899–1972, king of Denmark 1947–72.
  • french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
  • 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
  • hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
  • hexachloride — a chloride containing six atoms of chlorine.
  • hypercomplex — (mathematics) Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
  • hyperexcited — Very highly excited.
  • indirect tax — a tax levied indirectly, as one levied on commodities before they reach the consumer but ultimately paid by the consumer as part of the market price.
  • inexperience — lack of experience.
  • inextricable — from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
  • inextricably — from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
  • lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • malt extract — a sweet, gummy substance derived from an infusion of malt.
  • meat extract — a preparation containing the concentrated essence of meat
  • methoxychlor — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 1 5 Cl 3 O 2 , used as an insecticide.
  • motor cortex — the region of the cerebral cortex concerned with transmitting impulses to the voluntary muscles.
  • nitric oxide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble gas, NO, formed by the action of dilute nitric acid on copper, and by the direct combination of atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen at the high temperatures of an electric arc: an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric acid.
  • over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
  • over-excited — If you say that someone is over-excited, you mean that they are more excited than you think is desirable.
  • overexercise — to exercise excessively
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
  • postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
  • 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
  • price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
  • reexperience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
  • sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
  • six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
  • super-exceed — to go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc.: to exceed the speed limit.
  • tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
  • uranic oxide — uranium dioxide.
  • x chromosome — a sex chromosome of humans and most mammals that determines femaleness when paired with another X chromosome and that occurs singly in males.
  • x-chromosome — a sex chromosome of humans and most mammals that determines femaleness when paired with another X chromosome and that occurs singly in males.
  • xenocurrency — currency circulating or traded in money markets of countries outside its country of issue.
  • xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.
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