14-letter words containing x, c
- floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
- glycemic index — a system that ranks foods by the speeds at which their carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the body; a measure of the effects of foods on blood-sugar levels.
- glyoxylic acid — a water-soluble crystalline compound, C 2 H 2 O 3 , that is an intermediate in photorespiration in plants.
- gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
- 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.
- hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
- hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
- hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
- hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.
- hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
- hyperexcretion — excessive excretion
- immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
- immunotoxicity — The toxic effect of an immunotoxin on the immune system.
- inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
- inexplicitness — The state or condition of being inexplicit.
- interconnexion — Dated form of interconnection.
- intoxicatingly — causing or capable of causing intoxication: intoxicating beverages.
- kegel exercise — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- larixinic acid — maltol.
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
- lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- 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
- mail exchanger — (messaging) A server running SMTP Message Transfer Agent software that accepts incoming electronic mail and either delivers it locally or forwards it to another server. The mail exchanger to use for a given domain can be discovered by querying DNS for Mail Exchange Records.
- mental lexicon — the store of words in a person's mind
- mercuric oxide — a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder (red mercuric oxide) or as a fine, orange-yellow powder (yellow mercuric oxide) used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.
- mexican bamboo — a hardy plant, Polygonum cuspidatum, of the buckwheat family, native to Japan, having small, greenish-white flowers and tending to escape from cultivation.
- mexican orange — an aromatic, evergreen citrus shrub, Choisya ternata, of Mexico, having fragrant, white flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- mmx technology — Matrix Math eXtensions
- monocarboxylic — containing one carboxyl group.
- mycotoxicology — the study of the toxic properties of fungi
- nalidixic acid — a substance, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , that has antibacterial activity against many susceptible Gram-negative organisms, especially used in the treatment of urinary tract infections.
- nephrotoxicity — The state or condition of being nephrotoxic.
- nexpert object — An expert system.
- nixon doctrine — the policy declared by President Nixon in 1969 that the U.S. would supply arms but not military forces to its allies in Asia and elsewhere.
- non-contextual — of, relating to, or depending on the context.
- non-extractive — capable of being extracted, as from the earth: extractive fuels.
- opaque context — an expression in which the replacement of a term by another with the same reference may change the truth-value of the whole. John believes that Cicero was a Roman is opaque, since even though Cicero and Tully are the same person John may know that the given statement is true but not that Tully was a Roman
- out of context — If a statement or remark is quoted out of context, the circumstances in which it was said are not correctly reported, so that it seems to mean something different from the meaning that was intended.
- over-expectant — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
- overexcitement — The condition of being excessively excited.
- overextraction — excessive extraction
- oxidoreductase — any of a class of enzymes that act as a catalyst, some of them conjointly, causing the oxidation and reduction of compounds.