15-letter words containing x, e, n, o, t, r
- oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
- 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.
- post-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- 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.
- proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
- 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.
- sinistrodextral — moving or extending from the left to the right.
- strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
- unextraordinary — beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
- unprotected sex — an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy performed without the use of a condom, thus involving the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- xenotransplants — Plural form of xenotransplant.