10-letter words containing a, r, x, e
- tax burden — the amount of tax paid by a person, company, or country in a specified period considered as a proportion of total income in that period.
- tax credit — reduction in tax owed
- tax evader — a person who reduces or minimizes their tax liability by illegal methods
- tax rebate — repayment of money paid as tax
- tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
- tax relief — finance: reduction
- tax return — return (def 24).
- taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- texturally — the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- tree hyrax — an arboreal hyrax of the genus Dendrohyrax, of central and southern Africa.
- ubersexual — a man who exhibits traditional masculine qualities as well as the caring nature of the New Man
- water taxi — a motorboat that transports passengers for a fare.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- wax myrtle — an aromatic shrub, Myrica cerifera, of the southeastern U.S., bearing small berries coated with wax that is sometimes used in making candles.
- weaker sex — the female sex; women (usually used facetiously): my life as a member of the weaker sex.
- x terminal — (hardware) An intelligent terminal which operates as an X server directly connected to Ethernet. Not to be confused with the program xterm which is an X client.
- x-ray tube — an electronic tube for producing x-rays, essentially a cathode-ray tube in which a metal target is bombarded with high-energy electrons.
- xenarthral — having unusually jointed or articulated vertebrae
- xenocrates — 396–314 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- xenografts — Plural form of xenograft.
- xenography — The process of surgically transplanting organs or tissue between different species.
- xerography — an electrostatic printing process for copying text or graphics whereby areas on a sheet of paper corresponding to the image areas of the original are sensitized with a charge of static electricity so that, when powdered with a toner carrying an opposite charge, only the charged areas retain the toner, which is then fused to the paper to make it permanent.
- xerophagia — The eating of dry food.
- xerophobia — A fear of dryness.
- xerostomia — dryness of the mouth caused by diminished function of the salivary glands due to aging, disease, drug reaction, etc.
- xerox parc — /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.