10-letter words containing i, c, e, a, x
- extraction — The action of taking out something, especially using effort or force.
- extractive — Of or involving extraction, especially the extensive extraction of natural resources without provision for their renewal.
- extricable — Able to be extricated.
- extricated — Simple past tense and past participle of extricate.
- extricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extricate.
- haemotoxic — destructive to red blood cells
- hexactinal — having six spicules
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- income tax — a tax levied on incomes, especially an annual government tax on personal incomes.
- index card — a card, often relatively small, as 3 × 5 inches (7.6 × 12.7 cm), used in noting or recording information and usually filed in an index.
- index case — the first case of a disease, or the primary case referred to in a report
- insect wax — Chinese wax.
- intoxicate — to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, especially to excite or stupefy with liquor.
- lexicalise — Alternative spelling of lexicalize.
- lexicality — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lexicalize — to convert (an affix, a phrase, etc.) into a lexical item, as in using the suffix -ism as the noun ism.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- mixed acid — any mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, used as a nitrating agent in the manufacture of explosives, plastics, etc.
- mixed race — of parents from different ethnicities
- mixed-race — denoting or relating to a person whose parents belong to different racial or ethnic groups: mixed-race Brazilians.
- nonlexical — Not lexical.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- pre-climax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- prelexical — denoting or applicable at a stage in the formation of a sentence at which words and phrases have not yet replaced all of the underlying grammatical and semantic material of that sentence in the speaker's mind
- saxicoline — living or growing among rocks.
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- sex addict — a person who is addicted to engaging in sexual activity
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- tax credit — reduction in tax owed
- taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- texas city — a city in SE Texas, on Galveston Bay.
- unexacting — not exacting; relaxed rather than sternly precise
- wax insect — any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, especially a Chinese scale insect, Ericerus pe-la.
- waxahachie — a city in NE central Texas.
- xenic acid — the aqueous solution of xenon trioxide, a stable weak acid and strong oxidizing agent.