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8-letter words containing x, n

  • montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
  • muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
  • naloxone — a narcotic analgesic antagonist, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 4 , used in the reversal of acute narcotic analgesic respiratory depression.
  • naproxen — a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory substance, C 1 4 H 1 4 O 3 , used chiefly in the management of certain types of arthritis and as a painkiller.
  • 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.
  • neotoxin — a newly developed toxin
  • nest box — a box in a henhouse in which domestic chickens lay eggs
  • neuraxon — axon.
  • nextdoor — Also, next door. to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like: Go next-door and get your sister. Your sister is next-door. Her brother lives next-door.
  • nextness — The fact or condition of immediate succession or proximity; the quality of being next.
  • nextstep — (operating system)   The original multitasking operating system that NeXT, Inc. developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP includes a specific graphical user interface, an interface builder, object-oriented application builder, and several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the Indexing Kit for databases. This software runs on top of NeXT's version of the Mach operating system on NeXT, 486, Pentium, HP-PA, and Sun SPARC computers. The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP". The last release of NEXTSTEP was 3.3, which NeXT then developed into "OpenStep". See also: GNUStep.
  • nitroxyl — the chemical compound HNO
  • nontoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
  • normoxia — (medicine) The condition of having a normal level of oxygen.
  • normoxic — (medicine) Having a normal oxygen concentration; typically 20-21% in the atmosphere, or 2-3% in physiological contexts.
  • opopanax — (obsolete) A gum resin obtained from the root of Opopanax chironium, formerly used in medicine.
  • oxtongue — any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Picris, having oblong bristly leaves and clusters of dandelion-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • oxymoron — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
  • oxytocin — Biochemistry. a polypeptide hormone, produced by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that stimulates contraction of the smooth muscle of the uterus.
  • oxytonic — (of a word) having the stress or acute accent on the last syllable
  • 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.
  • phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
  • piloxing — a system of exercise combining elements of Pilates and boxing
  • planet x — a planet (beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto) whose existence has been hypothesized but not confirmed.
  • polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
  • polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
  • pontifex — a member of the Pontifical College, which was presided over by a chief priest (Pontifex Maximus)
  • pyroxene — any of a very common group of minerals of many varieties, silicates of magnesium, iron, calcium, and other elements, occurring as important constituents of many kinds of rocks, especially basic igneous rocks.
  • quincunx — an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
  • relaxant — of, relating to, or causing a relaxation.
  • relaxing — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
  • rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
  • sardonyx — a chalcedony that is used for cameos and has sard and chalcedony of another color, usually white, arranged in straight parallel bands.
  • 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
  • sexenary — senary.
  • sexiness — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
  • 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.
  • sixpence — (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of six pennies.
  • sixpenny — of the amount or value of sixpence; costing sixpence.
  • snuffbox — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
  • soundbox — a chamber in a musical instrument, as the body of a violin, for increasing the sonority of its tone.
  • spinifex — any of several Australian grasses of the genera Spinifex, Plectrachne, or Triodia, having spiny seeds and stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that grow in dense masses.
  • spintext — a preacher
  • subindex — an index to a part or subdivision of a larger category.
  • subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
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