13-letter words containing x, t, p
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- pre-existence — to exist beforehand.
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
- proparoxytone — having an accent or heavy stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
- protected sex — sexual activity during which a condom is used to protect against sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy.
- proxy gateway — proxy server
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
- sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
- tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- telephone box — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
- texture paint — a finish paint having an insoluble additive, as sand, for giving a slightly rough textural effect.
- time exposure — a long exposure in which the shutter is opened and closed by hand or by a mechanism other than the automatic mechanism of the shutter.
- toxicophagous — poison-eating
- toxoplasmosis — infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, transmitted to humans by consumption of insufficiently cooked meat containing the parasite or by contact with contaminated cats or their feces: the illness produced is usually mild, but in pregnant women may damage the fetus.
- unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
- unexpectantly — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
- unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
- x-ray therapy — treatment of a disease using controlled quantities of x-rays.
- xerophthalmia — abnormal dryness of the eyeball characterized by conjunctivitis, caused by a deficiency of tears and attributed to a lack of vitamin A.
- xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
- xiphiplastral — pertaining to or comprising a xiphiplastron
- xiphiplastron — the fourth lateral plate of a turtle's plastron