11-letter words containing o, a, x, c
- expectorate — Cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs.
- expiscation — the act of fishing out or finding out by investigation
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- explication — The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
- explicatory — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
- exsiccation — The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
- extra cover — a fielding position between cover and mid-off
- extractions — Plural form of extraction.
- extrication — The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
- fornicatrix — a woman who commits fornication.
- fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
- hepatotoxic — Damaging or destructive to liver cells.
- heterotaxic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- icebox cake — a confection made from such prepared ingredients as cookies or whipped cream that requires no additional baking but is chilled in a refrigerator before serving.
- intoxicants — Plural form of intoxicant.
- intoxicated — Archaic. intoxicated.
- intoxicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intoxicate.
- intoxicator — 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.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
- musical box — music box.
- not exactly — not at all; by no means
- oxalacetate — a salt of oxaloacetic acid
- oxalic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous acid, H 2 C 2 O 4 ⋅2H 2 O, first discovered in the juice of the wood sorrel species of oxalis and obtained by reacting carbon monoxide with sodium hydroxide or certain carbohydrates with acids or alkalis: used chiefly for bleaching, as a cleanser, and as a laboratory reagent.
- oxygen acid — oxyacid.
- packing box — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
- paradoxical — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- planoconvex — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and convex on the other.
- saint croix — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- sociosexual — of or relating to relationships between persons that involve sexuality.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- stereotaxic — of, relating to, or based on three-dimensional studies of the brain, especially as an adjunct to brain surgery.
- taxonomical — the science or technique of classification.
- to be exact — You say to be exact to indicate that you are slightly correcting or giving more detailed information about what you have been saying.
- toxic waste — waste material that can be harmful or deadly to living creatures and the environment
- toxicomania — a morbid desire for poisonous substances; drug addiction
- toxiphobiac — a person who suffers from toxicophobia
- xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
- xenodochial — (rare) Friendly to strangers.
- xenographic — Of or pertaining to xenography.
- xenophobiac — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
- xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
- xiphocostal — Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.
- xylographic — Of or pertaining to xylographs.
- xyridaceous — (of a plant) pertaining to or belonging to the order Xyrideae