12-letter words containing x, p
- opposite sex — man if woman, woman if man
- oropharynxes — Plural form of oropharynx.
- over-complex — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overexposure — excessive exposure, especially of photographic film or a sensitized plate to light rays.
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- 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.
- paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
- paradoxology — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- 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
- peroxy group — the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide.
- peroxyborate — perborate.
- perplexingly — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- perplexities — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
- 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
- pick 'n' mix — Pick 'n' mix is used to describe a way of getting a collection of things together by choosing a number of different ones.
- pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
- plagioclimax — the climax stage of a community, influenced by man or some other outside factor
- plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- polar vortex — a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole: A displaced polar vortex is causing Arctic temperatures across the United States.
- polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
- pony express — a former system in the American West of carrying mail and express by relays of riders mounted on ponies, especially the system operating (1860–61) between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
- postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- postexposure — occurring after a photo or image has been taken
- 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
- pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
- premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
- price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- prices index — an official list of the price of goods
- property tax — a tax levied on real or personal property.
- propoxyphene — Pharmacology. a nonnarcotic analgesic, C 2 2 H 2 9 NO 2 .
- protosynthex — A query system for English text.
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- proxy server — (software, security) (Capitalised) Microsoft's proxy server and proxy gateway, designed to provide extensible firewall and network security. Proxy Server is part of BackOffice.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.