8-letter words containing x, i, a, n
- loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- macminix — (operating system) The Macintosh version of MINIX.
- maximins — Plural form of maximin.
- mexicano — the Nahuatl language.
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- monaxial — uniaxial.
- naxalite — a member of an extreme Maoist group in India that originated in 1967 in West Bengal and which employs tactics of agrarian terrorism and direct action
- naxcivan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
- normoxia — (medicine) The condition of having a normal level of oxygen.
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- panmixia — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- relaxing — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- saxonian — a state in E central Germany. 6561 sq. mi. (16,990 sq. km). Capital: Dresden.
- saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- taxation — the act of taxing.
- toxicant — poisonous; toxic.
- transfix — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- uniaxial — having one axis.
- unixware — (operating system) Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
- vexation — the act of vexing.
- waxiness — The quality of being waxy.
- waxwings — Plural form of waxwing.
- xankāndi — capital of Nagorno-Karabakh: pop. 33,000
- xanthein — the part of the coloring matter in yellow flowers that is soluble in water. Compare xanthin (def 1).
- xanthian — of or relating to the ancient city of Xanthus.
- xanthide — (obsolete, organic chemistry) Any derivative of xanthogen.
- xanthine — a crystalline, nitrogenous compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 O 2 , related to uric acid, occurring in urine, blood, and certain animal and vegetable tissues.
- xanthism — a condition of skin, fur, or feathers in which yellow coloration predominates
- xantippe — flourished late 5th century b.c, wife of Socrates.
- xeransis — the gradual loss of tissue moisture
- xerantic — pertaining to xeransis
- xiangtan — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
- xinjiang — autonomous region of NW China, between Tibet & Kazakhstan: 635,832 sq mi (1,646,799 sq km); pop. 15,370,000; cap. Ürümqi