10-letter words containing c, o, a, x
- nonlexical — Not lexical.
- nux vomica — the seed of the orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.
- ochratoxin — a toxin produced by Aspergillus ochraceus and several other molds that commonly contaminate cereal grains: causes intestinal inflammation and kidney and liver degeneration when ingested by animals.
- optic axis — (in a crystal exhibiting double refraction) the direction or directions, uniaxial or biaxial, respectively, along which this phenomenon does not occur.
- oxycalcium — pertaining to or produced by oxygen and calcium.
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- polyaxonic — relating to a polyaxon
- radiotoxic — causing radiation sickness.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- saxicavous — (of molluscs) tending to bore holes or hollow out rocks
- saxicoline — living or growing among rocks.
- saxicolous — living or growing among rocks.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- toxication — poisoning.
- uxorilocal — matrilocal.
- xenocrates — 396–314 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- 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.
- xiphopagic — making up or constituting a xiphopagus