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12-letter words containing x, i, o

  • mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
  • mixing ratio — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in the air to the mass of the dry air, a measure of atmospheric humidity.
  • mixobarbaric — relating to a people who have both Greek and non-Greek ancestry
  • morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
  • nickel oxide — a green, water-insoluble powder, NiO, used chiefly in the manufacture of nickel salts and in green pigments for ceramic paints.
  • nitric oxide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble gas, NO, formed by the action of dilute nitric acid on copper, and by the direct combination of atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen at the high temperatures of an electric arc: an intermediate in the manufacture of nitric acid.
  • no exception — If you make a general statement, and then say that something or someone is no exception, you are emphasizing that they are included in that statement.
  • non-existent — absence of existence.
  • non-existing — to have actual being; be: The world exists, whether you like it or not.
  • non-flexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • non-toxicity — the quality, relative degree, or specific degree of being toxic or poisonous: to determine the toxicity of arsenic.
  • nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • nonexecution — Failure to execute or perform.
  • nonexecutive — a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
  • nonexistence — absence of existence.
  • nonexpansile — Not expansile.
  • nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
  • nonoxidizing — not leading to oxidation, not converting to oxide
  • nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
  • nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • one-line fix — Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system. Usually "cured" by another one-line fix. See also I didn't change anything!
  • opposite sex — man if woman, woman if man
  • over-anxious — excessively anxious.
  • over-excited — If you say that someone is over-excited, you mean that they are more excited than you think is desirable.
  • over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
  • overexercise — to exercise excessively
  • overexertion — to exert excessively.
  • overexplicit — excessively explicit
  • overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
  • oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
  • paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • pax vobiscum — peace be with you
  • peroxidation — a type of reaction in which oxygen atoms are formed leading to the production of peroxides. It is stimulated in the body by certain toxins and infections
  • phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
  • phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • photoexcited — increased in energy due to photoexcitation
  • photooxidize — to undergo or cause to undergo photooxidation
  • phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
  • plagioclimax — the climax stage of a community, influenced by man or some other outside factor
  • polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
  • postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • quixotically — In a quixotic manner.
  • radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
  • reannexation — the act or process of reannexing something
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