15-letter words containing x, r
- extrinsicalness — Quality of being extrinsical.
- floor exercises — exercises designed to improve fitness, carried out on the floor
- forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
- gas-guzzler tax — a tax imposed on the purchase price of an automobile not meeting fuel efficiency standards.
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- hair extensions — synthetic or human hair attached to the hair on someone's head to give the appearance of longer hair
- heather mixture — cloth made from a mixture of different yarns, predominantly grey but with flecks of different colours
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
- hexachlorophene — a white, crystalline powder, C 13 Cl 6 H 6 O 2 , insoluble in water: used as an antibacterial agent chiefly in toothpastes and soaps.
- hexahydrothymol — menthol.
- hexylresorcinol — white or yellowish-white, needle-shaped crystals, C 12 H 18 O 2 , used chiefly as an antiseptic and for the expulsion of intestinal worms.
- hydroxonium ion — a positive ion, H3O+, formed by the attachment of a proton to a water molecule: occurs in solutions of acids and behaves like a hydrogen ion
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hydroxycoumarin — (organic compound) Any of several isomeric hydroxy derivatives of coumarin, some of which are the basis of pharmaceuticals.
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyperexcitement — excessive or extreme excitement
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- identity matrix — a matrix that has 1 in each position on the main diagonal and 0 in all other positions.
- inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- inheritance tax — a tax levied on the right of an heir to receive a decedent's property, the rate being a percentage of the value of the property.
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- intertextuality — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- juice extractor — device: squeezes juice from fruit
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- karl-marx-stadt — former name (1953–90) of Chemnitz.
- kegel exercises — Often, Kegel exercises. exercise performed to strengthen the pubococcygeus and other muscles of the pelvic floor, in order to control incontinence, improve sexual response, etc.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
- manx shearwater — a European oceanic bird, Puffinus puffinus, with long slender wings and black-and-white plumage: family Procellariidae (shearwaters)
- matrix bar code — a type of 2D bar code that stores data in a matrix of geometrically shaped dark and light cells that represent bits. See also QR code.
- matrix compiler — Early matrix computations on UNIVAC. Sammet 1969, p.642.
- matrix sentence — Linguistics. a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In The man who called is waiting, The man is waiting is a matrix sentence.
- maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
- microextraction — (chemistry) A technique used to extract small amounts of material from a mixture.
- microsoft excel — (tool) A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
- mixture quality — Mixture quality is the degree to which a mixture is an ideal mixture.
- modal auxiliary — Grammar. any of the group of English auxiliary verbs, including can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must, that are used with the base form of another verb to express distinctions of mood.
- muscle relaxant — A muscle relaxant is any drug which relaxes muscles and may be used to treat muscle spasms and muscle pain.
- neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
- nitrogen fixing — involved in or aiding the process of nitrogen fixation.
- nitrogen oxides — Nitrogen oxides are compounds of nitrogen and oxygen produced during combustion.
- nitrogen-fixing — involved in or aiding the process of nitrogen fixation.
- nomex underwear — /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [Usenet] Synonym asbestos longjohns, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups. NOMEX underwear is an actual product available on the racing equipment market, used as a fire resistance measure and required in some racing series.
- non-exculpatory — tending to clear from a charge of fault or guilt.