10-letter words containing x, r, a
- taxi strip — a narrow taxiway.
- taxi truck — a truck with a driver that can be hired
- taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- texturally — the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- tree hyrax — an arboreal hyrax of the genus Dendrohyrax, of central and southern Africa.
- tropotaxis — straight movement by an organism toward or away from a source of stimulation as a result of comparing information received by paired sensory receptors on both sides of the body.
- ubersexual — a man who exhibits traditional masculine qualities as well as the caring nature of the New Man
- uxorilocal — matrilocal.
- water taxi — a motorboat that transports passengers for a fare.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- wax myrtle — an aromatic shrub, Myrica cerifera, of the southeastern U.S., bearing small berries coated with wax that is sometimes used in making candles.
- weaker sex — the female sex; women (usually used facetiously): my life as a member of the weaker sex.
- x terminal — (hardware) An intelligent terminal which operates as an X server directly connected to Ethernet. Not to be confused with the program xterm which is an X client.
- x-ray star — a star, usually a binary star, that is a strong emitter of x-rays, as Cygnus X-1.
- x-ray tube — an electronic tube for producing x-rays, essentially a cathode-ray tube in which a metal target is bombarded with high-energy electrons.
- xenarthral — having unusually jointed or articulated vertebrae
- xenocrates — 396–314 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- xenografts — Plural form of xenograft.
- xenography — The process of surgically transplanting organs or tissue between different species.
- xerography — an electrostatic printing process for copying text or graphics whereby areas on a sheet of paper corresponding to the image areas of the original are sensitized with a charge of static electricity so that, when powdered with a toner carrying an opposite charge, only the charged areas retain the toner, which is then fused to the paper to make it permanent.
- xerophagia — The eating of dry food.
- xerophobia — A fear of dryness.
- xerostomia — dryness of the mouth caused by diminished function of the salivary glands due to aging, disease, drug reaction, etc.
- xerox parc — /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.
- xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
- xylanthrax — (archaic) Wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite.
- xylographs — Plural form of xylograph.
- xylography — The art of making woodcuts or wood engravings, especially by a relatively primitive technique.