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11-letter words containing x, h

  • proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
  • psychotoxic — toxic or harmful to the mind or personality.
  • pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
  • saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • sex hormone — any of a class of steroid hormones that regulate the growth and function of the reproductive organs or stimulate the development of the secondary sexual characteristics.
  • sex hygiene — a branch of hygiene concerned with sex and sexual behavior as they relate to individual and community well-being.
  • sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
  • share index — A share index is a number that indicates the state of a stock market. It is based on the combined share prices of a set of companies.
  • six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
  • six-wheeler — a truck or other vehicle having six wheels.
  • sixteenthly — in sixteenth place
  • sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
  • sixth grade — (in the US) the sixth school year after kindergarten, usually containing pupils around 11 or 12 years old
  • sixth sense — a power of perception beyond the five senses; intuition: His sixth sense warned him to be cautious.
  • sixty-eight — a cardinal number, 60 plus 8.
  • sixty-fifth — next after the sixty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 65.
  • sixty-ninth — next after the sixty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 69.
  • sixty-sixth — next after the sixty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 66.
  • sixty-third — next after the sixty-second; being the ordinal number for 63.
  • sixty-three — a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.
  • sphinx moth — hawk moth.
  • stealth tax — Journalists sometimes refer to indirect taxes as stealth taxes.
  • tax holiday — a period of time during which the government reduces or suspends the collection of a tax, as payroll, property, or sales tax: The state legislature declared a hurricane preparedness tax holiday for items like flashlights and battery-powered radios.
  • tax sharing — revenue sharing.
  • tax shelter — any financial arrangement (as a certain kind of investment or allowance) that results in a reduction or elimination of taxes due.
  • taxgatherer — a person who collects taxes.
  • texas hedge — the opposite of a normal hedging operation, in which risk is increased by buying more than one financial instrument of the same kind
  • textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
  • the sex act — the act of sexual intercourse
  • the sixties — the years numbered 60–69 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
  • thigmotaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from any object that provides a mechanical stimulus.
  • thiothixene — a potent antipsychotic, C 23 H 29 N 3 O 2 S 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia and related psychoses.
  • thixotropic — the property exhibited by certain gels of becoming liquid when stirred or shaken.
  • thoroughwax — an umbelliferous plant with yellow flowers and perfoliate leaves, Bupleurum rotundifolium
  • thromboxane — a compound, C 20 H 32 O 5 , formed in blood platelets, that constricts blood vessels and promotes clotting.
  • thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
  • thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
  • toxiphobiac — a person who suffers from toxicophobia
  • toxophilite — a devotee of archery; archer.
  • unexhausted — not exhausted; not completely used up
  • unnilhexium — seaborgium.
  • unorthodoxy — orthodox belief or practice.
  • upper sixth — (in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) the final year of sixth form
  • x-ray photo — a picture produced by exposing photographic film to X-rays
  • x-stretcher — a stretcher having the form of an X .
  • xanthan gum — a water-soluble natural gum produced by the fermentation of sugar with certain microorganisms and used as a binder, extender, or stabilizer in foods and other products.
  • xanthinuria — An abnormally high level of xanthine in one's urine.
  • xanthophore — a chromatophore containing a yellow pigment, as in some cold-blooded animals.
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