9-letter words containing t, a, x, e
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- mixmaster — a disc jockey
- narthexes — Plural form of narthex.
- nonextant — Not extant.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overtaxed — taxed too heavily
- oxidative — the process or result of oxidizing.
- oxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- pixelated — 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.
- pixie hat — a hat, usually knitted, that comes to a point
- pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
- plain tex — (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.
- plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- praetexta — (in ancient Rome) a white toga with a broad purple border, worn by priests and magistrates as an official costume, and by certain other Romans as ceremonial dress.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- sales tax — a tax on receipts from sales, usually added to the selling price by the seller.
- saulteaux — a member of an American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, a division of the Ojibwa.
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- sextantal — pertaining to the weight standard that determined the worth of Roman coins
- sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- stone axe — a primitive axe made of chipped stone
- stub axle — a short axle that carries one of the front steered wheels of a motor vehicle and is capable of limited angular movement about a kingpin
- subluxate — to partially dislocate
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- tax break — If the government gives a tax break to a particular group of people or type of organization, it reduces the amount of tax they have to pay or changes the tax system in a way that benefits them.
- tax dodge — a way of avoiding having to pay the full amount of tax owed; it may be legal or illegal
- tax exile — a person who moves outside the jurisdiction of a country to avoid paying taxes.
- tax haven — a foreign country or corporation used to avoid or reduce income taxes, especially by investors from another country.
- tax title — a title, acquired by the purchaser at a forced sale of property for nonpayment of taxes.
- taxaceous — belonging to the Taxaceae, the yew family of plants.
- taxi fare — the money a customer pays for a journey in a taxi
- taxidermy — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- taximeter — a device fitted to a taxicab or other vehicle, for automatically computing and indicating the fare due.
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
- telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.
- testatrix — a woman who makes a will.
- texarkana — a city in NE Texas.
- text hand — handwriting characterized by large neat letters.
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- textspeak — a form of written language as used in text messages and other digital communications, characterized by many abbreviations and typically not following standard grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
- textually — of or relating to a text: textual errors.
- toxaphene — an amber, waxy, water-insoluble solid, whose principal constituent is chlorinated camphene, used as an insecticide and as a rodenticide.
- transaxle — a unit combining the transmission and differential of a motor vehicle and connected directly to the axles of the driving wheels.