8-letter words containing m, a, x
- maxicoat — a long coat extending to the ankle
- maxillae — Irregular plural form of maxilla.
- maxillar — Maxillary.
- maximins — Plural form of maximin.
- maximise — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- maximist — a person who makes or uses maxims
- 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.
- maximums — Plural form of maximum.
- 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.
- mexicali — a city in and the capital of Baja California, in NW Mexico, on the Mexican-U.S. border.
- mexicano — the Nahuatl language.
- 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.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- monaxial — uniaxial.
- 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.
- myxomata — Plural form of myxoma.
- normoxia — (medicine) The condition of having a normal level of oxygen.
- oxazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 1 5 H 1 1 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.
- panmixia — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- proximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- same-sex — of or relating to two or more persons of the same gender: same-sex friendships.
- saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
- smallpox — an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- taxonomy — the science or technique of classification.
- the manx — the people of the Isle of Man
- toxaemia — blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
- vax mips — (benchmark) (Or VAX Unit of Performance, VUP) The processing power normally attributed to a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/780. Future VAX systems were rated according to this scale (e.g. VAX 8350's being 2.7 VUPs per CPU). A MicroVAX II is normally associated with 0.9 VUPs and at a later time the MicroVUP was coined to rate VAX workstations. The use of the VUP by Digital Equipment Corporation has been replaced with more standard benchmarks (SPECint and SPECfp) in the DEC Alpha processor systems.
- wax moth — bee moth.
- wax palm — a tall, pinnate-leaved palm, Ceroxylon alpinum (or C. andicola), of the Andes, whose stem and leaves yield a resinous wax.
- xanthism — a condition of skin, fur, or feathers in which yellow coloration predominates
- xanthoma — a yellow papule or nodule in the skin, containing lipid deposits.
- xenogamy — pollination of the stigma of a flower by pollen from a flower on another plant.