16-letter words containing x, l, i
- external affairs — (formerly) the Canadian federal Foreign Affairs department
- external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
- exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- extraterrestrial — Of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere.
- extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
- hexahydroaniline — cyclohexylamine.
- hydroxylammonium — (inorganic compound) The univalent NH3OH+ cation, derived from hydroxylamine.
- hyperflexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hypersexualizing — Present participle of hypersexualize.
- inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- internex on-line — A rather cheap Internet service provider in Toronto, Canada.
- irregular galaxy — a galaxy with no specific form and a relatively low mass.
- ladies auxiliary — an association whose members are usually the wives of members of an association with which it is affiliated.
- lexical analyser — (language) (Or "scanner") The initial input stage of a language processor (e.g. a compiler), the part that performs lexical analysis.
- lexical analysis — (programming) (Or "linear analysis", "scanning") The first stage of processing a language. The stream of characters making up the source program or other input is read one at a time and grouped into lexemes (or "tokens") - word-like pieces such as keywords, identifiers, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser.
- lexicostatistics — the statistical study of the vocabulary of a language or languages for historical purposes.
- lighting fixture — a lighting fixture is part of a light that is attached to the wall or ceiling where you put the light bulb or other lighting element, and which cannot be easily removed
- 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.
- locomotor ataxia — tabes dorsalis.
- marxism-leninism — the modification of Marxism by Lenin stressing that imperialism is the highest form of capitalism
- 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.
- maximilian armor — full plate armor of the early 16th century, representing a combination of Italian and German styles and characterized by extensive use of fluting for lightness and strength.
- maximilien sully — Maximilien de Béthune [mak-see-mee-lyan duh bey-tyn] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ də beɪˈtün/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1560–1641, French statesman.
- medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
- mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
- mexican hairless — one of a breed of small dogs having no hair except for a tuft on the top of the head and a little fuzz on the lower part of the tail.
- 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
- 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.
- over-explanation — the act or process of explaining.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- overexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
- oxaloacetic acid — a crystalline organic acid, C 4 H 4 O 5 , that is an important intermediate in the Krebs cycle, where it is formed by the oxidation of malic acid and is acetylated to form citric acid: also a product of transamination reactions of aspartic acid.
- oxycalcium light — calcium light.
- prevost d'exiles — Antoine François [ahn-twan frahn-swa] /ɑ̃ˈtwan frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Prévost") 1697–1763, French novelist.
- 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.
- relative maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- relative-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- saxifrage family — the plant family Saxifragaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and small trees having alternate or opposite leaves, clustered or solitary flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the astilbe, currant, deutzia, gooseberry, hydrangea, mock orange, piggy-back plant, saxifrage, and strawberry geranium.
- scandinavian lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
- self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
- self-explication — the act of explicating.
- selling expenses — Selling expenses are expenses that are related to sales activities, such as delivery costs and salespeople's wages.