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12-letter words containing x, e, n, o

  • non-flexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • nonexecution — Failure to execute or perform.
  • nonexecutive — a person or group of persons having administrative or supervisory authority in an organization.
  • nonexistence — absence of existence.
  • nonexpansile — Not expansile.
  • nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
  • nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
  • nontextually — In a nontextual manner.
  • nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • one-line fix — Used (often sarcastically) of a change to a program that is thought to be trivial or insignificant right up to the moment it crashes the system. Usually "cured" by another one-line fix. See also I didn't change anything!
  • open texture — the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases
  • oropharynxes — Plural form of oropharynx.
  • ortho-xylene — Chemistry. a clear, colorless, poisonous, flammable liquid, C 8 H 10 , the ortho isomer of xylene: used chiefly in the synthesis of phthalic anhydride.
  • over-anxious — excessively anxious.
  • over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
  • overexertion — to exert excessively.
  • overextended — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
  • overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
  • oxyacetylene — noting or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and acetylene: an oxyacetylene torch.
  • oxygen cycle — the process by which oxygen released into the atmosphere by photosynthetic organisms is taken up by aerobic organisms while the carbon dioxide released as a by-product of repiration is taken up for photosynthesis.
  • oxygen lance — a tube for conveying oxygen, used in various thermal cutting or steelmaking operations.
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
  • peroxidation — a type of reaction in which oxygen atoms are formed leading to the production of peroxides. It is stimulated in the body by certain toxins and infections
  • phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • plano-convex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
  • pony express — a former system in the American West of carrying mail and express by relays of riders mounted on ponies, especially the system operating (1860–61) between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
  • 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
  • propoxyphene — Pharmacology. a nonnarcotic analgesic, C 2 2 H 2 9 NO 2 .
  • protosynthex — A query system for English text.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • reannexation — the act or process of reannexing something
  • retroflexion — a bending backward.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
  • sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
  • 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.
  • six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • tetrodotoxin — a neurotoxin, C 11 H 17 N 3 O 3 , occurring in a species of puffer fish: ingestion of the toxin is usually rapidly fatal due to heart failure or asphyxiation; used experimentally to block impulse conduction potential in excitable cells.
  • text edition — that edition of a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
  • thioxanthene — any of a class of antipsychotics, as thiothixene, used to relieve symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders.
  • toxigenicity — the quality of being toxigenic
  • transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
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