8-letter words containing a, l, e, x
- flexcash — flexdollars.
- flexural — the act of flexing or bending.
- fluxgate — (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
- fluxuate — Misspelling of fluctuate.
- galaxies — Plural form of galaxy.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- hexaglot — a book written in six languages
- hexalogy — A set of six works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as six individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hexapole — (physics) Anything having six poles or electrodes.
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- huxleyan — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- laxative — a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.
- lexigram — (psychology) A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication.
- loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
- malaxage — the act of kneading or softening unbaked pottery clay
- malaxate — To soften, especially by kneading with the hands.
- maxillae — Irregular plural form of maxilla.
- maxwells — Plural form of maxwell.
- megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
- melaxuma — a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Dothiorella gregaria.
- mexicali — a city in and the capital of Baja California, in NW Mexico, on the Mexican-U.S. border.
- naloxone — a narcotic analgesic antagonist, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 4 , used in the reversal of acute narcotic analgesic respiratory depression.
- naxalite — a member of an extreme Maoist group in India that originated in 1967 in West Bengal and which employs tactics of agrarian terrorism and direct action
- oral sex — sexual contact between the mouth and the genitals or anus; fellatio, cunnilingus, or anilingus.
- oxidable — able to undergo oxidation
- pixelate — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixilate — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- planet x — a planet (beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto) whose existence has been hypothesized but not confirmed.
- plateaux — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- relaxant — of, relating to, or causing a relaxation.
- relaxing — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- rouleaux — a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.
- salteaux — a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- sex play — erotic caressing, especially as a prelude to sexual intercourse; foreplay.
- sexually — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- tableaux — a picture, as of a scene.
- tax levy — the amount of money charged as taxation on particular assets or goods
- tax sale — the sale of real property, as land, usually at auction by a public authority, in order to pay delinquent taxes assessed upon its owner.
- taxables — people, income, property, etc, that is subject to tax
- textural — the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
- unsexual — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- zelatrix — a nun who monitors the behaviour of younger nuns