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8-letter words containing e, x, m

  • home box — (jargon, computer)   A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2BSD, so there!"
  • homeobox — Any of a class of closely similar sequences that occur in various genes and are involved in regulating embryonic development in a wide range of species.
  • intermix — Mix together.
  • jambeaux — Plural form of jambeau.
  • ketoxime — (organic chemistry) Any oxime derived from an ketone; general formula R2C=NOH.
  • 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.
  • lummoxes — a clumsy, stupid person.
  • luxmeter — a device for measuring the brightness or illumination of a surface
  • malaxage — the act of kneading or softening unbaked pottery clay
  • malaxate — To soften, especially by kneading with the hands.
  • matrixes — Plural form of matrix.
  • maxillae — Irregular plural form of maxilla.
  • maximise — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
  • maximite — a powerful explosive consisting primarily of picric acid.
  • maximize — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
  • 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.
  • methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
  • mexicali — a city in and the capital of Baja California, in NW Mexico, on the Mexican-U.S. border.
  • mexicano — the Nahuatl language.
  • mirepoix — a flavoring made from diced vegetables, seasonings, herbs, and sometimes meat, often placed in a pan to cook with meat or fish.
  • mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
  • mixed up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
  • mixed-up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
  • mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
  • mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
  • mixtures — Plural form of mixture.
  • moneybox — piggy bank: container for coins
  • monoxide — an oxide containing one oxygen atom in each molecule.
  • montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
  • mousepox — ectromelia (def 2).
  • murexide — a reddish-purple, crystalline, sparingly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 8 N 6 O 6 , having a green luster, formerly used as a dye.
  • muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
  • myxameba — the amebalike, usually nonflagellated, uninucleate haploid individual of a sporocarp that is released upon spore germination and feeds by engulfing bacteria and yeast: a typical stage in the life cycle of cellular slime molds.
  • myxedema — a condition characterized by thickening of the skin, blunting of the senses and intellect, and labored speech, associated with hypothyroidism.
  • myxocyte — one of the stellate or polyhedral cells in mucous tissue
  • oxazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 1 5 H 1 1 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • oximeter — an instrument for measuring the oxygen saturation of the hemoglobin in a sample of blood.
  • oximetry — the measuring of oxygen saturation of the blood by means of an oximeter.
  • proxemic — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
  • same-sex — of or relating to two or more persons of the same gender: same-sex friendships.
  • smokebox — a chamber in a steam engine or boiler where smoke is collected
  • supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
  • textonym — (in text messaging) one of two or more words that can be generated by pressing the same combination of numbers on the keypad of a mobile phone
  • the manx — the people of the Isle of Man
  • toxaemia — blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
  • vexillum — a military standard or flag carried by ancient Roman troops.
  • xenogamy — pollination of the stigma of a flower by pollen from a flower on another plant.
  • xenotime — a yellow-brown crystalline mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium
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