8-letter words containing x, n
- exocrine — Relating to or denoting glands that secrete their products through ducts opening onto an epithelium rather than directly into the bloodstream.
- exogenic — Formed or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- exoneree — One who is exonerated.
- exonumia — Coinlike objects.
- exotoxin — A toxin released by a living bacterial cell into its surroundings.
- expanded — Being or having been enlarged, extended, or broadened, in particular.
- expander — One who expands; something that expands.
- expanses — Plural form of expanse.
- expended — Spend or use up (a resource such as money, time, or energy).
- expender — One who expends.
- expensed — Simple past tense and past participle of expense.
- expenses — Plural form of expense.
- expirant — a person who expires
- expiring — Ending, terminating, dying.
- explains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explain.
- explants — Plural form of explant.
- exponent — One who expounds, represents or advocates.
- exposing — Present participle of expose.
- expounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expound.
- expugned — Simple past tense and past participle of expugn.
- expunged — Simple past tense and past participle of expunge.
- expunger — One who expunges.
- exsecant — a trigonometric function related to the secant function
- extended — Made larger; enlarged.
- extender — A person or thing that extends something.
- extensin — (biochemistry) Any of a family of flexuous, rod-like, hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) of the plant cell wall.
- extensor — A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.
- external — Belonging to or forming the outer surface or structure of something.
- externat — a day school
- extranet — An intranet that can be partially accessed by authorized outside users, enabling businesses to exchange information over the Internet securely.
- exultant — Triumphantly happy.
- exulting — Present participle of exult.
- fixating — Present participle of fixate.
- fixation — the act of fixing or the state of being fixed.
- fixpoint — fixed point
- flexagon — a three-dimensional figure having polygonal faces that is constructed from a folded sheet of paper in such a way that different faces are exposed when the figure is flexed along its folds.
- flexions — the act of bending.
- fluxions — (obsolete, mathematics) differential calculus.
- fox hunt — the hunting of foxes with hounds
- foxhound — any of several breeds of medium-sized hounds trained to hunt foxes and having a glossy coat in combinations of black, tan, and white.
- foxiness — The characteristic or quality of being foxy.
- francaix — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1912–1997, French composer.
- gaoxiong — Kaohsiung.
- genetrix — a female progenitor
- geulincx — Arnold, 1624?–69, Belgian philosopher.
- gloxinia — any of several horticultural varieties of a plant belonging to the genus Sinningia, of the gesneria family, especially S. speciosa, having large white, red, or purple bell-shaped flowers.
- hanotaux — (Albert Auguste) Gabriel [al-ber oh-gyst ga-bree-el] /alˈbɛr oʊˈgüst ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1853–1944, French statesman and historian.
- 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.
- hexagons — Plural form of hexagon.
- hexamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 12 N 4 , used as a vulcanization accelerator, an absorbent in gas masks, in the manufacture of the explosive RDX and synthetic resins, and in medicine as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.