12-letter words containing x, f
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- neutron flux — the rate of flow of neutrons through a specified area
- non-flexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- of all the x — You use all in expressions like of all the cheek or of all the luck to emphasize how angry or surprised you are at what someone else has done or said.
- 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!
- oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
- oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
- 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.
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- reflex angle — an angle greater than 180° and less than 360°.
- retroflexion — a bending backward.
- self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- semiflexible — moderately or somewhat flexible.
- sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- tax-deferred — noting or providing income that is not taxed until a later time.
- the fair sex — women collectively
- toxic effect — an adverse effect of a drug produced by an exaggeration of the effect that produces the therapeutic response
- 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.
- transfer tax — a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property
- windfall tax — a tax levied on an organization considered to have made excessive profits, esp a privatized utility company that has exploited a monopoly