10-letter words containing p, a, x, o
- phyllotaxy — the arrangement of leaves on a stem or axis.
- phylloxera — any of several plant lice of the genus Phylloxera, especially P. vitifoliae (grape phylloxera) which attacks the leaves and roots of grapevines.
- pillar box — a pillarlike box in which letters are deposited for collection by mail carriers; mailbox.
- 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.
- pixilation — the state or quality of being pixilated.
- polar axis — the fixed line, usually horizontal, from which the angle made by the radius vector is measured in a polar coordinate system.
- polyaxonic — relating to a polyaxon
- pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
- prattlebox — a person who prattles, a chatterbox
- praxeology — the study of human conduct.
- proximally — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- toxiphobia — an abnormal fear of being poisoned.
- toxoplasma — any protist of the genus Toxoplasma, especially T. gondii, the causative agent of toxoplasmosis.
- tropotaxis — straight movement by an organism toward or away from a source of stimulation as a result of comparing information received by paired sensory receptors on both sides of the body.
- xanthopsia — A visual defect, a form of chromatopsia in which everything appears yellow.
- xenography — The process of surgically transplanting organs or tissue between different species.
- xenophanes — c570–c480 b.c, Greek philosopher and poet.
- xenophilia — an attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
- xenophobia — fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers: Xenophobia and nationalism can be seen as a reaction to the rise of globalization.
- xerography — an electrostatic printing process for copying text or graphics whereby areas on a sheet of paper corresponding to the image areas of the original are sensitized with a charge of static electricity so that, when powdered with a toner carrying an opposite charge, only the charged areas retain the toner, which is then fused to the paper to make it permanent.
- xerophagia — The eating of dry food.
- xerophobia — A fear of dryness.
- xerox parc — /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.
- xiphoidian — (anatomy, rare) xiphoid.
- xiphopagic — making up or constituting a xiphopagus
- xiphopagus — either of a pair of Siamese twins joined at the lower sternum or xiphoid process
- xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
- xylographs — Plural form of xylograph.
- xylography — The art of making woodcuts or wood engravings, especially by a relatively primitive technique.
- xylophagan — an insect in the Xylophaga or Xylophagi that eats wood