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14-letter words containing x, a, t

  • extractor hood — a fan used over a cooker to remove fumes
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
  • extraordinaire — Outstanding or remarkable in a particular capacity.
  • extraplanetary — Originating, or located outside of a planet.
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
  • extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • faute de mieux — for lack of anything better
  • foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
  • great doxology — Gloria in Excelsis Deo.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • heat exchanger — a device for transferring the heat of one substance to another, as from the exhaust gases to the incoming air in a regenerative furnace.
  • hepatotoxicity — Toxicity that damages the liver.
  • heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
  • hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
  • hydroxyapatite — a mineral, Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 OH 2 , that is the principal storage form of calcium and phosphorus in bone.
  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
  • hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
  • hypersexuality — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
  • inexterminable — Impossible to exterminate.
  • infix notation — (language)   One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in infix notation the functions are placed between their operands, such as "1+2". Although infix notation is limited to binary functions most languages mix infix notation with prefix or postfix notation, as a form of syntactic sugar.
  • intermaxillary — Between the maxillae.
  • internal exile — a state of comparative isolation imposed upon certain political dissidents within the former Soviet Union, in which the subject was forced to live in a remote and often unfamiliar place and in which freedom of movement and personal contact with family, friends, and associates were severely restricted.
  • intersexuality — Having the physical features of both sexes.
  • intertextually — In an intertextual way.
  • intoxicatingly — causing or capable of causing intoxication: intoxicating beverages.
  • juxtamedullary — (anatomy) next to the edge of the medulla (of the kidney).
  • juxtapositions — Plural form of juxtaposition.
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
  • lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • logical syntax — syntactics.
  • macintosh iicx — (computer)   (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
  • magnox reactor — a nuclear reactor using carbon dioxide as the coolant, graphite as the moderator, and uranium cased in magnox as the fuel
  • maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
  • maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
  • mental lexicon — the store of words in a person's mind
  • metatextuality — A form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical commentary on another.
  • methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
  • methylxanthine — a compound formed through the methylation of xanthine, such as caffeine or theophylline
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