10-letter words containing s, e, x, c
- exospheric — Of or pertaining to an exosphere.
- exoticness — The characteristic of being exotic; foreignness.
- explicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explicate.
- extractors — Plural form of extractor.
- extricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extricate.
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- index case — the first case of a disease, or the primary case referred to in a report
- insect wax — Chinese wax.
- lexicalise — Alternative spelling of lexicalize.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- quincunxes — Plural form of quincunx.
- saxicoline — living or growing among rocks.
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- second sex — one sex considered as secondary or subordinate in role to the other, especially women in a male-dominated society.
- sex addict — a person who is addicted to engaging in sexual activity
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- sex clinic — a health centre where people can go for advice about sexual matters, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, etc
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
- sex-crazed — unhealthily obsessed with sexual activity
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- texas city — a city in SE Texas, on Galveston Bay.
- texas deck — the uppermost deck of an inland or western river steamer.
- trisectrix — a trisecting line
- wax insect — any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, especially a Chinese scale insect, Ericerus pe-la.
- xenocrates — 396–314 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- xenocrysts — Plural form of xenocryst.
- xml schema — (data) XML data that describes the relationship between elements and attributes in some other class of XML data. A schema may or may not include data type representations. XML schemas are a more advanced alternative to DTDs.