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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
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