12-letter words containing x, s
- metro-sexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- metrosexuals — Plural form of metrosexual.
- misery index — an unofficial indication of a nation's economic health, derived by adding the percentage rate of inflation to the percentage of unemployed workers: With inflation running at 15 percent and unemployment at 8 percent, the misery index is 23 percent.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
- morphosyntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
- myxedematous — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
- myxomycetous — of or relating to a slime mold.
- neutral axis — an imaginary line in the cross section of a beam, shaft, or the like, along which no stresses occur.
- ninety-sixth — next after the ninety-fifth; being the ordinal number for 96.
- non-existent — absence of existence.
- non-existing — to have actual being; be: The world exists, whether you like it or not.
- nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- nonexistence — absence of existence.
- nonexpansile — Not expansile.
- nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nuisance tax — a tax paid in small but frequent amounts, usually by consumers.
- opposite sex — man if woman, woman if man
- oropharynxes — Plural form of oropharynx.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- overexercise — to exercise excessively
- overexposure — excessive exposure, especially of photographic film or a sensitized plate to light rays.
- oxidant smog — photochemical smog.
- oxycellulose — any substance formed naturally or synthetically by the oxidation of cellulose.
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- perplexities — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
- polysiloxane — a polymer composed of silicon and oxygen atoms
- pony express — a former system in the American West of carrying mail and express by relays of riders mounted on ponies, especially the system operating (1860–61) between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
- postexercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- postexposure — occurring after a photo or image has been taken
- 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.
- prices index — an official list of the price of goods
- protosynthex — A query system for English text.
- proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- proxy server — (software, security) (Capitalised) Microsoft's proxy server and proxy gateway, designed to provide extensible firewall and network security. Proxy Server is part of BackOffice.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
- quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
- radical axis — the line such that tangents drawn from any point of the line to two given circles are equal in length.
- saint sixtus — Saint, pope a.d. 432–440.
- saint xystus — Saint, pope a.d. 432–440.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.