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