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11-letter words containing x, t, a, l

  • oxtail soup — soup made using the skinned tail of an ox
  • paleocortex — the olfactory region of the brain.
  • payroll tax — a tax levied against the amount of wages and salaries paid workers.
  • penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
  • phallotoxin — any of a group of potent mycotoxins produced by certain mushroom species of the genus Amanita.
  • phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • pixellation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • protogalaxy — the large concentration of gas and dust from which a galaxy is formed.
  • proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
  • retrosexual — a heterosexual man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance
  • saint felixSaint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
  • stealth tax — Journalists sometimes refer to indirect taxes as stealth taxes.
  • subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
  • tax holiday — a period of time during which the government reduces or suspends the collection of a tax, as payroll, property, or sales tax: The state legislature declared a hurricane preparedness tax holiday for items like flashlights and battery-powered radios.
  • tax shelter — any financial arrangement (as a certain kind of investment or allowance) that results in a reduction or elimination of taxes due.
  • taxonomical — the science or technique of classification.
  • transsexual — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • triaxiality — a triaxial nature
  • unexcitable — not excitable; not easily stirred
  • unluxuriant — not luxuriant
  • vexillation — a group of soldiers in the Roman army, usually comprising a thousand men
  • xanthophyll — lutein (def 1).
  • xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
  • xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
  • xi particle — any of a family of baryons having strangeness −2 and isotopic spin ½. Symbol: Ξ.
  • xiphocostal — Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.
  • zanthoxylum — any rutaceous shrub or tree of the genus Zanthoxylum, of temperate and subtropical E Asia and North America: includes the prickly ash and the West Indian yellowwood (or satinwood)
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