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17-letter words containing ex

  • export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
  • extension courses — courses offered to outsiders by an educational establishment
  • external examiner — External experts, for example external examiners, come into an organization from outside in order to do a particular job fairly and impartially, or to check that a particular job was done properly.
  • external relation — a relation that does not hold between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2
  • extraordinariness — The property of being extraordinary.
  • extraordinary ray — the plane-polarized ray of light that does not obey the laws of refraction in a doubly refracting crystal
  • extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
  • extraterrestrials — Plural form of extraterrestrial.
  • fire extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • fire-extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • flexible response — a military strategy that enables the response to an attack to be adapted to the nature and strength of the attack
  • gender expression — the external expression of gender roles, as through socially defined behaviors and ways of dressing.
  • go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
  • go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
  • gold export point — an exchange rate at which it is as cheap to settle international accounts by exporting gold bullion as by buying bills of exchange
  • golden alexanders — a plant, Zizia aurea, of the parsley family, native to eastern North America, having compound leaves and umbels of yellow flowers.
  • hexacosanoic acid — cerotic acid.
  • hexadecanoic acid — palmitic acid.
  • homework exercise — an exercise that is set as homework
  • hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • inclusion complex — a solid solution in which molecules of one compound occupy places in the crystal lattice of another compound. Compare adduct (def 2).
  • indecent exposure — the intentional exposure of one's body's privates in a manner that gives offense against accepted or prescribed behavior.
  • inexhaustibleness — The quality of being inexhaustible.
  • internal examiner — an examiner from the same college or university as the students who are being examined
  • internet explorer — (web)   (IE, MSIE) Microsoft's free World-Wide Web browser for Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Macintosh. Internet Explorer is the main rival to Netscape Navigator (which runs on many more platforms). Both support the same core features and offer incompatible extensions. Microsoft combined later versions of IE with their file system browser, "Explorer" and bundled it with Windows 95 in an attempt to use their dominance of the desktop operating system market to force users to abandon Netscape's browser, which they perceived as a potential threat. This, and other dubious business moves, became the subject of a US Department of Justice antitrust trial in late 1998/early 1999.
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • isotonic exercise — exercise or a program of exercises to increase muscular strength, power, and endurance based on lifting a constant amount of weight at variable speeds through a range of motion.
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • lexical insertion — the process in which actual morphemes of a language are substituted either for semantic material or for place-fillers in the course of a derivation of a sentence
  • lexicographically — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • literary executor — a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.
  • local examination — any of various examinations, such as the GCSE, set by university boards and conducted in local centres, schools, etc
  • lose the exchange — to lose a rook in return for a bishop or knight
  • luminous exitance — the ability of a surface to emit light expressed as the luminous flux per unit area at a specified point on the surface
  • m-expression lisp — (MLISP) The original "meta-language" syntax of Lisp, designed by John McCarthy in 1962. MLISP was intended for external use in place of the parenthesised S-expression syntax.
  • mexican hat dance — a dance performed by couples, consisting of eight measures during which the dancers kick out each foot alternately, followed by eight more measures during which they swing around with interlocking arms.
  • mexican stand-off — A Mexican stand-off is a situation in which neither of the people or groups in a conflict or dispute can win and neither wants to give in first.
  • multiple exposure — the filming of more than one scene in a single frame
  • multiplex printer — (hardware)   A duplex circuit using time-division multiplexing to provide multiple duplex channels over one wire. For example, channels A, B, C, and D could be used for simultaneous transmission in both directions.
  • neo-expressionism — an art movement, chiefly in painting, that developed in Germany, Italy, and the U.S. in the late 1970s, emphasized large heavy forms and thick impasto, and typically dealt with historical narrative in terms of symbolism, allegory, and myth.
  • new expressionism — neo-expressionism.
  • office by example — (language)   (OBE) A sequel to QBE, described in publications by Moshe Zloof of IBM in the early 1980s but apparently never implemented.
  • physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
  • pituitary extract — a preparation of the pituitary gland, used in medicine for the therapeutic effects of its hormones
  • plastic explosive — a puttylike substance that contains an explosive charge, and is detonated by fuse or by remote control: used especially by terrorists and in guerrilla warfare.
  • quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
  • reflexive pronoun — A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun such as 'myself' which refers back to the subject of a sentence or clause. For example, in the sentence 'He made himself a cup of tea', the reflexive pronoun 'himself' refers back to 'he'.
  • same-sex marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
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