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13-letter words containing oi

  • spoils system — the system or practice in which public offices with their emoluments and advantages are at the disposal of the victorious party for its own purposes.
  • standard coin — a coin having value in bullion at least equal to its face value.
  • steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
  • stevens point — a city in central Wisconsin.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • super-heroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
  • talking point — a fact or feature that aids or supports one side, as in an argument or competition.
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the paleozoic — the Paleozoic Era or its rocks
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thoroughgoing — doing things thoroughly.
  • three-pointer — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
  • thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
  • thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
  • tipping point — the point at which an issue, idea, product, etc., crosses a certain threshhold and gains significant momentum, triggered by some minor factor or change.
  • to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
  • toile de jouy — a cotton or linen fabric characterized by monochromatic prints on a light background.
  • toilet humour — scatological or vulgar jokes
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • topoisomerase — any of a class of enzymes that control the coiling of DNA molecules
  • tortoise-core — Archaeology. a late Lower and Middle Paleolithic stone core characteristic of the Levalloisian tradition of toolmaking, having a rounded top and flattish bottom and prepared in advance to permit the removal of a single ellipsoid flake with one blow from a stone hammer.
  • tortoiseshell — a horny substance of a mottled brown and yellow coloration, composing the laminae that cover the inner body plates of the carapace of certain tortoises or turtles, especially the hawksbill, used for making combs and ornamental articles, inlaying, etc.
  • tous-les-mois — a large-grained farinaceous food resembling arrowroot, obtained from a South American canna, Canna edulis, and used in baby food.
  • truchet point — (unit, text)   An obsolete variant of the point, equal to 0.188 mm.
  • tung-oil tree — tung tree.
  • turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
  • unrefined oil — oil that hasn't been refined or processed
  • up to a point — If you say that something is true up to a point, you mean that it is partly but not completely true.
  • vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
  • valproic acid — a carboxylic acid, C 8 H 16 O 2 , used for its antiepileptic properties in the treatment of various seizures including petit mal.
  • vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.
  • vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • vegetable oil — any of a large group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol, obtained from the leaves, fruit, or seeds of plants.
  • voice over ip — (communications)   (VoIP) Any technology providing voice telephony services over IP, including CODECs, streaming protocols and session control. The major advantage of VoIP is lower cost, by avoiding dedicated voice circuits. Currently VoIP is being deployed on internal corporate networks, and, via the Internet, for low cost (and low quality) international calls. It is also used for telephony applications such as voice and fax mail. The ITU standard is H.323, which is a whole suite of protocols, while the IETF has developed the much simpler SIP to solve the session control problem and MGCP/Megaco to solve the gateway problem.
  • water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
  • waygoing crop — away-going crop.
  • weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
  • xanthochroism — a condition in certain animals, esp aquarium goldfish, in which all skin pigments other than yellow and orange disappear
  • zinc ointment — an ointment composed of mineral oil and zinc oxide, used in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
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