13-letter words containing x
- unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
- unextractable — to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force: to extract a tooth.
- unix man page — Unix manual page
- unix system v — System V
- uranium oxide — any of the compounds of uranium and oxygen, as UO 2 , UO 3 , U 4 O 9 , or U 3 O 8 .
- vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
- vercingetorix — died 45? b.c, Gallic chieftain conquered by Caesar.
- vexillologist — the study of flags.
- victorian box — a tree, Pittosporum undulatum, of Australia, having shiny, wavy-margined, oblong leaves and fragrant clusters of yellowish flowers.
- vision mixing — the work of selecting and manipulating the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- visitor's tax — a tax that visitors to a place must pay
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual foxpro — (database) A Microsoft database derived from Fox Software's FoxPRO.
- vivax malaria — the most common form of malaria, caused by the protozoan Plasmodium vivax and marked by the occurrence of attacks every other day.
- vortex street — a regular stream of vortices or parallel streams of vortices carried downstream by the flow of a fluid over a body. These are sometimes made visible by vapour condensation as in the vortex trails from the wing tips of an aeroplane
- well-executed — to carry out; accomplish: to execute a plan or order.
- whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- x-certificate — a film classification indicating a film that may not be publicly shown to anyone under 18. Since 1982 replaced by symbol 18
- x-ray burster — a celestial source from which bursts of x-rays are received.
- x-ray therapy — treatment of a disease using controlled quantities of x-rays.
- xanthochroism — a condition in certain animals, esp aquarium goldfish, in which all skin pigments other than yellow and orange disappear
- xanthochroous — light-skinned and fair-haired
- xenodiagnosis — a method of diagnosing certain diseases caused by insects, ticks, or other vectors, by allowing uninfected vectors to feed on the patient and later examining them for infections.
- xenoestrogens — Plural form of xenoestrogen.
- 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
- xiphophyllous — (botany) Having sword-shaped leaves.
- xylographical — Xylographic.
- yeast extract — food ingredient obtained from yeast
- yttrium oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, Y 2 O 3 , used chiefly in incandescent gas and acetylene mantles.
- zf expression — (programming) (After Zermelo Fränkel set theory). David Turner's name for list comprehension.
- zoopraxiscope — an early type of motion-picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which the images were drawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotating opaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source was used.
- zooxanthellae — any of various symbiotic yellow-green or yellow–brown algae in the cytoplasm of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.