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21-letter words containing x, e

  • relaxation oscillator — a nonsinusoidal oscillator, the timing of which is controlled by the charge and discharge time constants of resistance and capacitance components
  • repatriation expenses — Repatriation expenses are the costs involved in transporting a claimant or their body back to their own country after they have been injured or killed in a foreign country.
  • reverse polish syntax — postfix notation
  • schoolgirl complexion — a smooth, clear complexion, such as schoolgirls are considered to have
  • sir william alexander — Sir William (Alexander) 1867–1957, Scottish lexicographer and philologist.
  • skew symmetric matrix — a matrix that is equal to the negation of its transpose
  • the executive mansion — the White House
  • think outside the box — to think in a different, innovative, or original manner, esp with regard to business practices, products, systems, etc
  • to be mixed up in sth — if you are mixed up in something, usually something bad, you are involved in it
  • to box someone's ears — If someone boxes a child's ears, they hit them on the side of their head as a punishment.
  • to mix your metaphors — If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.
  • wholesale price index — an indicator of price changes in the wholesale market
  • with the exception of — except for, save
  • xeroderma pigmentosum — a rare inherited disease characterized by sensitivity to ultraviolet light, exposure resulting in lesions and tumors of the skin and eyes.
  • xfree86 project, inc. — (operating system, graphics)   A non-profit organisation that produces XFree86, a freely redistributable implementation of the X Window System that runs on Unix and Unix-like operating systems and OS/2. The XFree86 Project has traditionally focused on Intel x86 based platforms (hence the "86"), but the current release supports other platforms.
  • xilinx netlist format — (language, electronics)   (XNF) A Hardware Description Language for electronic circuit design, developed by Xilinx, Inc..
  • yellow mercuric oxide — a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder (red mercuric oxide) or as a fine, orange-yellow powder (yellow mercuric oxide) used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.
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