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8-letter words containing h, o, x

  • boxthorn — matrimony vine
  • chad box — (hardware)   (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
  • chamonix — a town in SE France, in the Alps at the foot of Mont Blanc: skiing and tourist centre. Pop: 9514 (2006)
  • checkbox — A small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user, is filled with a check mark to show that the feature described alongside it has been enabled.
  • chip box — chad box
  • chronaxy — Alternative form of chronaxie.
  • ethoxide — any of a class of saltlike compounds with the formula MOC2H5, where M is a metal atom
  • exhorted — Simple past tense and past participle of exhort.
  • exhorter — (rare) A person who exhorts.
  • exophagy — the practice of cannibalism outside of the tribe or family
  • exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
  • exorheic — (of a lake or basin) Externally drained; having one or more outlets.
  • exotherm — (chemistry) Any exothermic compound.
  • fox hunt — the hunting of foxes with hounds
  • fox moth — a coppery-brown European eggar moth, Macrothylacia rubi, whose black-and-yellow woolly larvae are commonly found on heather and bramble
  • foxholes — Plural form of foxhole.
  • foxhound — any of several breeds of medium-sized hounds trained to hunt foxes and having a glossy coat in combinations of black, tan, and white.
  • hanotaux — (Albert Auguste) Gabriel [al-ber oh-gyst ga-bree-el] /alˈbɛr oʊˈgüst ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1853–1944, French statesman and historian.
  • hatboxes — Plural form of hatbox.
  • hexacore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of six cores.
  • hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
  • hexaglot — a book written in six languages
  • hexagons — Plural form of hexagon.
  • 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.
  • hexanoic — Of or pertaining to hexanoic acid or its derivatives; caproic.
  • hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
  • hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
  • hexapole — (physics) Anything having six poles or electrodes.
  • hexomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of six squares.
  • hexosans — Plural form of hexosan.
  • hoaxster — Alternative form of hoaxer (rare).
  • 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.
  • horsebox — A vehicle for transporting horses.
  • horsepox — a disease in horses caused by a virus and characterized by eruptions in the mouth and on the skin.
  • hox gene — any of a class of genes that determines the basic structure and orientation of an organism.
  • hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
  • hydroxy- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of one or more hydroxyl groups or ions
  • hydroxyl — containing the hydroxyl group.
  • john xii — (Octavian) died a.d. 964, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 955–964.
  • john xiv — died a.d. 984, pope 983–984.
  • john xix — died 1032, pope 1024–32.
  • john xxi — (Petrus Hispanus) died 1277, Portuguese ecclesiastic: pope 1276–77.
  • lunchbox — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
  • methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
  • orthodox — of, relating to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.
  • phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
  • rheopexy — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
  • roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.

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