9-letter words containing o, a, x
- double ax — an ax with a double-edged blade, frequently depicted in prehistoric decorative designs of the eastern Mediterranean region, especially in Minoan religious sites.
- elixation — (now rare) Boiling, stewing.
- exactions — Plural form of exaction.
- exam room — the room designated for a particular examination to take place
- exaration — (obsolete) The act of ploughing.
- excambion — an exchange, esp of land
- excavator — A person who removes earth carefully and systematically from an archaeological site in order to find buried remains.
- excoriate — Censure or criticize severely.
- execrator — a person who execrates or makes an execration
- exfoliant — A cosmetic product designed to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- exfoliate — (of a material) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers.
- exodermal — of or relating to the protective outer layer (exodermis) of a plant root
- exodontia — The extraction of teeth.
- exogamous — (biology, marriage) Of or relating to exogamy.
- exonerate — (especially of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case.
- exophoria — (ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
- exoplanet — A planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.
- exoration — a plea or entreaty
- exosporal — of or relating to the exospores of algae or fungi
- exosporia — exospores
- exoterica — (Used with or without an article) Writing, facts, principles, etc. that are widely known.
- exotropia — (medicine) A form of strabismus in which the eyes deviate outwards.
- expand on — If you expand on or expand upon something, you give more information or details about it when you write or talk about it.
- expansion — The action of becoming larger or more extensive.
- expatriot — Misspelling of expatriate.
- expiation — The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
- expiatory — Of or pertaining to expiation.
- explorate — (obsolete) To explore.
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- extrabold — a font with very bold characters
- extractor — A machine or device used to extract something.
- extrapose — to move a word or words to the end of, or outside, a clause or sentence without altering its sense
- extropian — Of, or relating to extropy.
- exudation — The act of exuding.
- factor ix — a blood constituent necessary for clotting, the absence of which is characterized by a hemophilialike condition.
- fax modem — a modem that can send and receive faxes, as documents or pictures.
- fixations — Plural form of fixation.
- flexatone — A modern percussion instrument consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.
- flexional — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- fluxional — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.
- fox grape — a vine, Vitis labrusca, chiefly of the northeastern U.S., from which numerous cultivated grape varieties have been developed.
- fox snake — a brown-blotched nonvenomous snake, Elaphe vulpina, of north-central U.S., that vibrates its tail and emits a pungent odor when disturbed.
- gearboxes — Plural form of gearbox.
- giraudoux — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, French novelist, playwright, and diplomat.
- glass pox — alastrim, or mild smallpox.
- gloxinias — Plural form of gloxinia.
- gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
- grass box — a container attached to a lawn mower that receives grass after it has been cut
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.