8-letter words containing x, a
- banjaxed — destroyed or ruined
- bank box — safe-deposit box.
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- base box — a unit used in the sale of tin plate, equal to the total area of 112 sheets each measuring 14 by 20 inches (35 by 50 cm), or 31,360 square inches (196,000 sq. cm).
- battleax — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battleax, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
- bauxitic — consisting of, containing or resembling bauxite
- bay lynx — bobcat
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
- bone wax — a mixture of wax, oil, and carbolic acid applied to the cut surface of a bone to prevent bleeding
- bordeaux — a port in SW France, on the River Garonne: a major centre of the wine trade. Pop: 235 878 (2006)
- box beam — a beam or girder built up from shapes and having a hollow, rectangular cross section.
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- box coat — a plain short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- boxboard — a tough paperboard made from wood and wastepaper pulp: used for making boxes, etc
- brainbox — the skull
- breadbox — A breadbox is the same as a bread bin.
- broadaxe — a type of axe with a large blade
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- cachexia — a generally weakened condition of body or mind resulting from any debilitating chronic disease
- cachexic — cachetic
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- cacomixl — The ring-tailed civet cat, Bassaris astuta.
- cake mix — Cake mix is a powder that you mix with eggs and water or milk to make a cake. You bake the mixture in the oven.
- calexico — a town in S California.
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- carfaxes — Plural form of carfax.
- carnifex — an executioner
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- cathexes — Plural form of cathexis.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- cextract — (programming, tool) A C prototype extractor by Adam Bryant <[email protected]>. cextract can generate header files for large multi-file C programs, and will automatically generate prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It can also generate a sorted list of all functions and their locations. cextract version 1.7 works with both ANSI C and K&R C and runs under Unix and VMS. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed.
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chamonix — a town in SE France, in the Alps at the foot of Mont Blanc: skiing and tourist centre. Pop: 9514 (2006)
- chapeaux — a hat.
- chateaux — (in France) a castle or fortress.
- chronaxy — Alternative form of chronaxie.
- cicatrix — the tissue that forms in a wound during healing; scar
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- climaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of climax.
- climaxes — Plural form of climax.
- cotopaxi — a volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the world's highest active volcano Height: 5896 m (19 344 ft)
- coxalgia — pain in the hip joint