14-letter words containing x, l
- self-reflexive — self-referential
- selling climax — a brief, abrupt decline in stock prices that is succeeded by a rally.
- semi-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- set an example — If you set an example, you encourage or inspire people by your behaviour to behave or act in a similar way.
- sexual assault — abuse or violence of a sexual nature
- seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
- simplex method — a numerical method for solving problems in linear programming.
- sports complex — exercise facility, leisure centre
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
- superexcellent — extremely excellent; better than excellent
- superluxurious — extremely luxurious
- supersexuality — the quality of having a strong sexual appetite
- supramaxillary — of or relating to the upper jaw
- sussex spaniel — one of an English breed of shortlegged spaniels having a golden liver-colored coat.
- tax consultant — a person who advises other people and companies on tax affairs, esp on legal ways of paying less tax
- tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
- tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
- taxable amount — the portion of your income or profits that is subject to tax
- telex operator — a person who sends messages by telex
- texas hold 'em — a popular variety of poker in which each player can use any or all of five shared cards in combination with either or both of two private cards to form the best possible hand of five cards
- texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
- the gentle sex — the female sex; women
- tic douloureux — a condition of momentary stabbing pain along the trigeminal nerve
- to wax lyrical — If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
- trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
- transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- trial examiner — a person appointed to hold hearings and report findings and recommendations to an administrative or quasi-judicial agency or tribunal.
- ultra-orthodox — of, relating to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.
- ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
- vernal equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- waxleaf privet — an evergreen shrub, Ligustrum japonicum, native to Japan and Korea, having leathery leaves and large clusters of small white flowers.
- wessex culture — an early Bronze Age culture of southern England, 1800–1400 b.c., known only from grave sites, grave goods, and megaliths and considered responsible for erecting the sarsen stones of the third building phase of Stonehenge.
- wheel and axle — a simple machine consisting, in its typical form, of a cylindrical drum to which a wheel concentric with the drum is firmly fastened: ropes are so applied that as one unwinds from the wheel, another rope is wound on to the drum.
- xanthomelanous — of or relating to olive-skinned and dark-haired peoples, belonging to the Xanthomelanoi division
- xenobiological — Of or pertaining to xenobiology.
- xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- xenotransplant — xenograft.
- xerophytically — As a xerophyte.
- xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
- xylopyrography — the technique of making a picture or design on wood using a hot iron or another heated instrument
- xylotypography — a type of printing using wooden blocks