10-letter words containing l, e, o, x
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- oxygenless — without oxygen
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- paddle box — a structure enclosing a paddle wheel.
- pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
- philoxenia — an act of hospitableness and welcome
- phylloxera — any of several plant lice of the genus Phylloxera, especially P. vitifoliae (grape phylloxera) which attacks the leaves and roots of grapevines.
- pixelation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- prattlebox — a person who prattles, a chatterbox
- praxeology — the study of human conduct.
- protoxylem — the part of the primary xylem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- puzzle box — an enclosure, used in experiments in animal learning, from which an animal must escape or in which it must manipulate various devices.
- re-explore — to explore again
- relaxation — abatement or relief from bodily or mental work, effort, application, etc.
- saxicoline — living or growing among rocks.
- saxon blue — a dye made by dissolving indigo in a solution of sulphuric acid
- sex symbol — a celebrity who is held to possess abundant sex appeal.
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- sexologist — the study of sexual behavior.
- sextillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
- silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
- unexploded — having not exploded
- unexplored — to traverse or range over (a region, area, etc.) for the purpose of discovery: to explore the island.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- xenoglossy — Knowledge of a language one has never learned.
- xenolithic — Being or pertaining to a xenolith.
- xenophiles — Plural form of xenophile.
- xenophilia — an attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
- xenophilic — an attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
- xerophilic — Capable of growing and reproducing in conditions with a low availability of water.
- xylochrome — a colouring agent made from the chemical alteration of decomposed wood
- xylogenous — living in or on wood
- xylophones — Plural form of xylophone.
- yellow box — (operating system) Apple Computer, Inc.'s new development platform for building desktop, server, and web applications. Yellow Box is a rich object-oriented environment that is tightly integrated with Java and allows you to deploy applications across five platforms: Rhapsody, Rhapsody for Intel, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Mac OS. All Yellow Box-based products are an evolution of OpenStep - an operating system-independent, object-oriented application platform from NeXT. Integrating the cross-platform robustness of OpenStep with Apple's market-leading digital media and graphics technologies will differentiate the Yellow Box from other development platforms. "Yellow Box for Windows" is the run-time software (implemented as dynamically linked libraries) that allows Yellow Box applications to run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. Applications that use it will feature a full native Windows user interface.