13-letter words containing x, r, a, t, e
- levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- liver extract — an extract of mammalian liver, especially hog or beef, for treating pernicious anemia.
- marketing mix — A company's marketing mix is the combination of marketing activities it uses in order to promote a particular product or service.
- marx brothers — the. a US family of film comedians, esp Arthur Marx, known as Harpo (1888–1964), Herbert Marx, known as Zeppo (1901–79), Julius Marx, known as Groucho (1890–1977), and Leonard Marx, known as Chico (1886–1961). Their films include Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Day at the Races (1937)
- midterm exams — exams taken during the middle of a term in a school, university, etc
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- mixter-maxter — chaotic or confused
- orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- overexuberant — effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant: an exuberant welcome for the hero.
- oxford accent — the accent associated with Oxford English
- parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
- part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- proparoxytone — having an accent or heavy stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
- proxy gateway — proxy server
- reexamination — further study or inspection
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- rotation-axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
- start of text — (character) (STX) Mnemonic for ASCII 2.
- tax collector — sb employed to gather taxes
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- texas leaguer — a pop fly that falls safely between converging infielders and outfielders.
- texas rangers — a member of the Texas state police force or, especially formerly, of the mounted state police.
- texture paint — a finish paint having an insoluble additive, as sand, for giving a slightly rough textural effect.
- unexaggerated — not exaggerated or overblown
- unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
- unextractable — to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force: to extract a tooth.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- x-certificate — a film classification indicating a film that may not be publicly shown to anyone under 18. Since 1982 replaced by symbol 18
- x-ray burster — a celestial source from which bursts of x-rays are received.
- x-ray therapy — treatment of a disease using controlled quantities of x-rays.
- xerophthalmia — abnormal dryness of the eyeball characterized by conjunctivitis, caused by a deficiency of tears and attributed to a lack of vitamin A.
- xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
- yeast extract — food ingredient obtained from yeast