12-letter words containing x, c
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- photoexcited — increased in energy due to photoexcitation
- phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
- pick 'n' mix — Pick 'n' mix is used to describe a way of getting a collection of things together by choosing a number of different ones.
- pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
- plagioclimax — the climax stage of a community, influenced by man or some other outside factor
- plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
- price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- prices index — an official list of the price of goods
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
- quixotically — In a quixotic manner.
- radical axis — the line such that tangents drawn from any point of the line to two given circles are equal in length.
- reexperience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
- self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- sexcentenary — pertaining to 600 or a period of 600 years; marking the completion of 600 years.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
- six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
- six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- super-exceed — to go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc.: to exceed the speed limit.
- tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
- taxi dancing — a system, as in a dance hall or hotel, whereby a person pays for a partner (taxi dancer) for a dance, payment being required for each individual dance during an evening
- toxic effect — an adverse effect of a drug produced by an exaggeration of the effect that produces the therapeutic response
- toxicophobia — an intense fear of poisoning
- toxigenicity — the quality of being toxigenic
- toxocariasis — the infection of humans with the larvae of a genus of roundworms, Toxocara, of dogs and cats. It can cause swelling of the liver and, sometimes, damage to the eyes
- toxophilitic — of or relating to a person who loves archery
- unexceptable — to exclude; leave out: present company excepted.
- unexecutable — to carry out; accomplish: to execute a plan or order.
- unexpectable — to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of: I expect to read it. I expect him later. She expects that they will come.
- unexpectedly — not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure; an unexpected development.
- uranic oxide — uranium dioxide.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- vexillologic — of or relating to vexillology
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- waxed cotton — cotton that is treated with wax to make it waterproof
- waxed jacket — a waterproof jacket made of waxed material
- x chromosome — a sex chromosome of humans and most mammals that determines femaleness when paired with another X chromosome and that occurs singly in males.
- x consortium — A vendor consortium supporting development, evolution and maintenance of the X Window System. The X Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit company. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Consortium, a research group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
- x-chromosome — a sex chromosome of humans and most mammals that determines femaleness when paired with another X chromosome and that occurs singly in males.
- xanthic acid — an unstable organic acid, C 3 H 6 S 2 O, the methyl and ethyl esters of which are colorless, oily liquids with a penetrating odor.