16-letter words containing x, e, n, o
- extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
- extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
- for external use — If medicine is for external use, it is intended to be used only on the outside of your body, and not to be eaten or drunk.
- foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
- forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- hexachloroethane — a colorless crystalline compound, C 2 Cl 6 , with a camphorlike odor, soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water: used in organic synthesis and pyrotechnics, as a retarding agent in fermentation, and as a solvent.
- hexahydroaniline — cyclohexylamine.
- hexahydrobenzene — cyclohexane.
- hexanedioic acid — adipic acid.
- hyperoxygenation — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- i see no x here. — (games) Hackers (and the interactive computer games they write) traditionally favour this slightly marked usage over other possible equivalents such as "There's no X here!" or "X is missing." or "Where's the X?". This goes back to the original PDP-10 ADVENT, which would respond in this wise if you asked it to do something involving an object not present at your location in the game.
- impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
- internex on-line — A rather cheap Internet service provider in Toronto, Canada.
- iron (iii) oxide — a red crystalline insoluble oxide of iron that occurs as haematite and rust and is made by heating ferrous sulphate: used as a pigment and metal polish (jeweller's rouge), and as a sensitive coating on magnetic tape. Formula: Fe2O3
- junior executive — a trainee position in a business or organization
- keyword indexing — the process of constructing or compiling an index to a document or other item by using keywords that describe the item.
- law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
- linux user group — (body, operating system) (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. LUGs often hold Install Fests for the general public, in which experienced Linux users explain and supervise the installation of Linux on new users' systems.
- mason-dixon line — the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the end of slavery as a line of demarcation between free and slave states.
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- mock examination — an examination, esp in a school, taken as practice before an official examination
- mutual exclusion — (parallel, operating system) (Or "mutex", plural: "mutexes") A collection of techniques for sharing resources so that different uses do not conflict and cause unwanted interactions. One of the most commonly used techniques for mutual exclusion is the semaphore.
- neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
- nitrogen dioxide — a reddish-brown, highly poisonous gas, NO 2 , used as an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric and sulfuric acids, and as a nitrating and oxidizing agent; a major air pollutant from the exhaust of internal combustion engines that are not fitted with pollution control devices.
- no fixed address — Someone who is of no fixed address does not have a permanent place to live.
- non-experiential — pertaining to or derived from experience.
- non-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
- open box testing — white box testing
- over-expectation — the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation.
- over-explanation — the act or process of explaining.
- overexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
- oxidation number — 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.
- phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
- phenoxybenzamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 8 H 2 2 ClNO, used to dilate vascular peripheral blood vessels in the treatment of Raynaud's disease and in pheochromocytoma.
- presentation box — a specially designed and attractive box to hold a product, and make it look more impressive
- proxima centauri — the nearest star to the sun at a distance of 4.3 light-years, part of the Alpha Centauri triple-star system located in the constellation Centaurus.
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- recreational sex — sex for the purpose of pleasure rather than reproduction, without the commitment of a relationship
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
- self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
- self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
- self-explication — the act of explicating.
- senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action