10-letter words containing x, s
- sex appeal — the ability to excite people sexually.
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- sex clinic — a health centre where people can go for advice about sexual matters, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, etc
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sex kitten — a young woman who is sexy and coquettish.
- sex manual — a book which explains how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices
- sex object — a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.
- sex symbol — a celebrity who is held to possess abundant sex appeal.
- sex worker — prostitution.
- sex-crazed — unhealthily obsessed with sexual activity
- sex-linked — (of a gene) located in a sex chromosome.
- sex-ridden — sexual in a rude and unpleasant way
- sexagenary — of or relating to the number 60.
- sexagesima — the second Sunday before Lent.
- sexavalent — hexavalent.
- sexivalent — hexavalent.
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- sexologist — the study of sexual behavior.
- sexpartite — divided into or consisting of six parts.
- sextillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
- sextonship — the office of a sexton
- sexualised — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
- shadow box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
- shadow-box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
- signal box — a railway signal tower.
- silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- single-sex — designated for, pertaining to, or serving only males or only females: a single-sex college.
- sioux city — a port in W Iowa, on the Missouri River.
- six-footer — a person who is roughly six feet tall.
- six-seater — a vehicle vehicle providing seats for six people
- six-storey — having six floors or storeys
- sixth form — secondary school: final 2 years
- sixth year — (in Scotland) the most senior class in a secondary school to which pupils, usually above the legal leaving age, may proceed to take sixth-year studies, retake or take additional Highers, etc
- sixtus iii — Saint, pope a.d. 432–440.
- sixty-five — a cardinal number, 60 plus 5.
- sixty-four — a cardinal number, 60 plus 4.
- sixty-nine — a cardinal number, 60 plus 9.
- sixtypenny — noting a nail 6 inches (15 cm) long. Abbreviation: 60d.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- sphinxlike — like the Sphinx; enigmatic or inscrutable
- squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
- squeezebox — a concertina or accordion.
- stephen ix — died 1058, pope 1057–58.
- stereotaxy — brain surgery that makes use of measurement in three dimensions for positioning an electrode, needle, etc. precisely
- submaxilla — mandible.
- submaximal — of or being a maximum; greatest possible; highest.
- subtextual — the underlying or implicit meaning, as of a literary work.