8-letter words containing s, e, x, i
- extensin — (biochemistry) Any of a family of flexuous, rod-like, hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) of the plant cell wall.
- fair sex — women as a group (usually used facetiously): an insult to the fair sex.
- fixities — Plural form of fixity.
- fixtures — something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.: a light fixture; kitchen fixtures.
- flexions — the act of bending.
- foxiness — The characteristic or quality of being foxy.
- galaxies — Plural form of galaxy.
- geotaxis — oriented movement of a motile organism toward or away from a gravitational force.
- hex sign — any of various magical symbols of usually stylized design, as those painted on barns by the Pennsylvania Dutch for protection against evil spirits and now sometimes used for purely decorative purposes.
- iceboxes — Plural form of icebox.
- indexers — Plural form of indexer.
- inflexes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflex.
- influxes — Plural form of influx.
- intersex — an individual having reproductive organs or external sexual characteristics of both male and female.
- lexicons — Plural form of lexicon.
- luxuries — a material object, service, etc., conducive to sumptuous living, usually a delicacy, elegance, or refinement of living rather than a necessity: Gold cufflinks were a luxury not allowed for in his budget.
- matrixes — Plural form of matrix.
- maximise — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- mixtures — Plural form of mixture.
- oxidised — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
- pixieish — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
- preexist — to exist beforehand.
- prefixes — 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.
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- sex life — If you refer to someone's sex life, you are referring to their sexual relationships and sexual activity.
- sexiness — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- sixpence — (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of six pennies.
- sixpenny — of the amount or value of sixpence; costing sixpence.
- sixscore — one hundred and twenty
- sixtieth — next after the fifty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 60.
- spinifex — any of several Australian grasses of the genera Spinifex, Plectrachne, or Triodia, having spiny seeds and stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that grow in dense masses.
- spintext — a preacher
- subindex — an index to a part or subdivision of a larger category.
- suboxide — the oxide of an element that contains the smallest proportion of oxygen.
- suffixed — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- suffixes — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- superfix — a suprasegmental feature having an identifiable meaning or grammatical function, as the stress pattern that distinguishes the noun record from the verb record or the parallel falling stress patterns of blackbird and highchair, reflecting a parallel relationship between the elements.
- swinepox — a variety of chicken pox.
- syntexis — the alteration of magma by assimilation of a different mineral or by melting
- textiles — any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.
- the axis — the alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Japan, established in 1936 and lasting until their defeat in World War II
- unsexist — not sexist
- vixenish — a female fox.
- waxiness — The quality of being waxy.
- xeransis — the gradual loss of tissue moisture
- xerxes i — 519?–465 b.c, king of Persia 486?–465 (son of Darius I).