12-letter words containing x, l, i, n
- nonexpansile — Not expansile.
- nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- 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!
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- perplexingly — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- retroflexion — a bending backward.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- unisexuality — of or relating to one sex only.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- windfall tax — a tax levied on an organization considered to have made excessive profits, esp a privatized utility company that has exploited a monopoly
- xilinx, inc. — (company) The electronics company who invented the FPGA. Xilinx was founded in San Jose, California, in 1984, and invented the field-programmable gate array. They claim to command more than half of the world market for these devices today. More recent innovations include complex programmable logic devices. Address: 2100 Logic Drive, San Jose, CA 95124, USA.