11-letter words containing x
- false oxlip — a similar and related plant that is a natural hybrid between the cowslip and primrose
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- fax machine — facsimile machine
- fax over ip — (communications) (FoIP) Transmission of a facsimile over an IP networking instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP.
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- fifty-sixth — next after the fifty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 56.
- fixed asset — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
- fixed costs — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- fixed point — (mathematics) The fixed point of a function, f is any value, x for which f x = x. A function may have any number of fixed points from none (e.g. f x = x+1) to infinitely many (e.g. f x = x). The fixed point combinator, written as either "fix" or "Y" will return the fixed point of a function. See also least fixed point.
- fixed price — a price established by a seller, by agreement or by authority, as the price to be charged invariably.
- fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
- fixed-point — (programming) A number representation scheme where a number, F is represented by an integer I such that F=I*R^-P, where R is the (assumed) radix of the representation and P is the (fixed) number of digits after the radix point. On computers with no floating-point unit, fixed-point calculations are significantly faster than floating-point as all the operations are basically integer operations. Fixed-point representation also has the advantage of having uniform density, i.e., the smallest resolvable difference of the representation is R^-P throughout the representable range, in contrast to floating-point representations. For example, in PL/I, FIXED data has both a precision and a scale-factor (P above). So a number declared as 'FIXED DECIMAL(7,2)' has a precision of seven and a scale-factor of two, indicating five integer and two fractional decimal digits. The smallest difference between numbers will be 0.01.
- fixed-price — option: with set cost
- fixed-width — record
- fixer-upper — a person who is handy at making repairs.
- fixing bath — a solution containing one or more chemical compounds that is used, in fixing, to dissolve unexposed silver halides. It sometimes has an additive to stop the action of developer
- flexecutive — an executive to whom the employer allows flexibility about times and locations of working
- flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
- flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- for example — as an example, by way of illustration
- fornicatrix — a woman who commits fornication.
- forty-sixth — next after the forty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 46.
- fox hunting — a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
- fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
- fox terrier — either of two English breeds of small terriers having either a long, wiry coat or a short, flat coat, formerly used for driving foxes from their holes.
- fox-hunting — a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
- frederik ix — 1899–1972, king of Denmark 1947–72 (son of Christian X).
- fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
- full-duplex — of or relating to the simultaneous, independent transmission of information in both directions over a two-way channel.
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- geotextiles — Plural form of geotextile.
- get next to — to ingratiate oneself with; become friendly or intimate with
- glyoxysomes — Plural form of glyoxysome.
- gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
- gourmet sex — lovemaking that is particularly passionate, enjoyable, and imaginative
- gregory xii — (Angelo Correr, Corrario or Corraro) c1327–1417, Italian ecclesiastic: installed as pope in 1406 and resigned office in 1415.
- gregory xiv — (Niccolò Sfandrati) 1535–91, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590–91.
- gregory xvi — (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari) 1765–1846, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1831–46.
- grunting ox — the yak.
- haemothorax — Alternative form of hemothorax.
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- hepatotoxic — Damaging or destructive to liver cells.
- hepatotoxin — Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heterodoxly — In a heterodox manner.