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15-letter words containing x, e

  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • deuterium oxide — heavy water.
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
  • dideoxycytidine — The drug zalcitabine.
  • direct taxation — Direct taxation is a system in which a government raises money by means of direct taxes.
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • ecotoxicologist — One who studies ecotoxicology.
  • electra complex — the sexual attachment of a female child to her father
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • entre-deux-mers — any wine produced in the area of the Gironde between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne in S France
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • exaggeratedness — the quality of being exaggerated
  • examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
  • exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
  • excess capacity — unused production capacity
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • excluded middle — the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • exhaustlessness — the quality of being exhaustless
  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • existentialists — Plural form of existentialist.
  • exoerythrocytic — occurring outside the red blood cells, esp of a developmental stage of protozoan parasites
  • expanded memory — (storage)   Memory used through EMS. In systems based on Intel 80386 or later processor expanded memory is part of the extended memory that is mapped into the expanded memory page frame by the processor. The mapping is controlled by the EMM. In earlier systems, a dedicated EMS hardware adaptor is needed to map memory into the page frame. In both cases, an appropriate device driver is needed for the proper communication between hardware and EMM.
  • expansion joint — structural feature: gap to allow for expansion or contraction
  • expeditiousness — The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
  • expense account — account for expenses
  • experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
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