12-letter words containing x, i, r
- overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
- paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
- 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
- perplexingly — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- perplexities — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
- 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
- pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
- premaxillary — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
- 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
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- radical axis — the line such that tangents drawn from any point of the line to two given circles are equal in length.
- radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
- reannexation — the act or process of reannexing something
- reexperience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- retroflexion — a bending backward.
- rich mixture — A rich mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing an excessive proportion of fuel.
- running text — the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.
- sexagenarian — of the age of 60 years or between 60 and 70 years old.
- six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
- six-yard box — On a football pitch, the six-yard box is the rectangular area marked in front of the goal.
- six-year-old — being six years in age
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- 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.
- submaxillary — of or relating to the lower jaw or lower jawbone.
- supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
- tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
- 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.
- the fair sex — women collectively
- thirty-sixth — next after the thirty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 36.
- time-expired — (of a cheque) that has lapsed and is no longer valid
- 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
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- twenty-sixer — a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity
- twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- unexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression of meaning, feeling, etc.: a bland and unexpressive person.
- uranic oxide — uranium dioxide.
- vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- 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-ray binary — a binary star that is an intense source of X-rays and is composed of a normal star in close orbit with a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
- xanthochroia — a condition causing yellow patches on the skin similar to xanthoma