8-letter words containing p, a, x
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- panmixia — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
- paraxial — making a small angle with and lying close to the axis of an optical system: paraxial ray.
- paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- perborax — sodium perborate.
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
- pixelate — 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.
- pixilate — 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.
- planet x — a planet (beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto) whose existence has been hypothesized but not confirmed.
- plateaux — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- poll tax — a capitation tax, the payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
- prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
- pretexta — praetexta.
- proximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- sex play — erotic caressing, especially as a prelude to sexual intercourse; foreplay.
- sex tape — a recording of a sexual encounter, esp one involving a celebrity
- six-pack — six bottles or cans of a beverage, as beer or a soft drink, packaged and sold especially as a unit.
- 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.
- soap-box — Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- taxpayer — a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
- 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.
- waterpox — chickenpox
- wax palm — a tall, pinnate-leaved palm, Ceroxylon alpinum (or C. andicola), of the Andes, whose stem and leaves yield a resinous wax.
- waxplant — a shrubby climbing plant, Hoya carnosa, of the milkweed family, native to Australia, with umbels of waxy pink or white flowers.
- xantippe — flourished late 5th century b.c, wife of Socrates.
- xenophya — parts of a shell or skeleton formed by foreign bodies
- xpercase — A structure diagram editor for developing, re-engineering, maintaining and documenting programs, developed by Siemens AG, Austria. It runs under Microsoft Windows. E-Mail: <[email protected]>.
- xylocarp — a fruit, such as a coconut, having a hard woody pericarp