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15-letter words containing x

  • convexo-concave — having one side convex and the other side concave
  • corporation tax — Corporation tax is a tax that companies have to pay on the profits they make.
  • countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
  • croix de guerre — a French military decoration awarded for gallantry in battle: established 1915
  • culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
  • cyclohexylamine — a highly toxic and hazardous organic chemical derived from cyclohexane
  • dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decontextualise — Alternative spelling of decontextualize.
  • decontextualize — to consider (something) in isolation from its usual context
  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • deuterium oxide — heavy water.
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • diagonal matrix — a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.
  • diamine oxidase — an enzyme, occurring in the digestive system, that inactivates histamine by removal of its amino group
  • dideoxycytidine — The drug zalcitabine.
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • direct taxation — Direct taxation is a system in which a government raises money by means of direct taxes.
  • disintoxication — detoxification (def 4).
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • docosahexaenoic — Of or pertaining to docosahexaenoic acid or its derivatives.
  • double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • duque de caxias — a city in SE Brazil: a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • ecotoxicologist — One who studies ecotoxicology.
  • electra complex — the sexual attachment of a female child to her father
  • electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
  • entre-deux-mers — any wine produced in the area of the Gironde between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne in S France
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • exaggeratedness — the quality of being exaggerated
  • examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
  • exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
  • excess capacity — unused production capacity
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • excluded middle — the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • excommunicating — Present participle of excommunicate.
  • excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • executive board — administrative committee
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