14-letter words containing x, d
- screw extruder — A screw extruder is a type of mixer which moves the components through a cylinder using a screw which turns.
- self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- self-exploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
- simplex method — a numerical method for solving problems in linear programming.
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
- tax adjustment — a change to the amount of tax owed by a company or individual
- tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
- tetanus toxoid — an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin.
- texas hold 'em — a popular variety of poker in which each player can use any or all of five shared cards in combination with either or both of two private cards to form the best possible hand of five cards
- tic douloureux — a condition of momentary stabbing pain along the trigeminal nerve
- ultra-orthodox — of, relating to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.
- unexpectedness — not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure; an unexpected development.
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- vexed question — an issue that is much debated and discussed
- wheel and axle — a simple machine consisting, in its typical form, of a cylindrical drum to which a wheel concentric with the drum is firmly fastened: ropes are so applied that as one unwinds from the wheel, another rope is wound on to the drum.
- windows xp pro — Windows XP Professional Edition
- xanthosiderite — a mineral, hydrous iron oxide, Fe 2 O 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
- xenodiagnostic — of or relating to xenodiagnosis
- xenon trioxide — a colorless, nonvolatile solid, XeO 3 , explosive when dry: in solution it is called xenic acid.
- xeroradiograph — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
- zeno's paradox — any of various versions of a paradox regarding the relation of the discrete to the continuous and requiring the concept of limit for its satisfactory explanation.