8-letter words containing x, t
- interrex — a person holding supreme authority in a state during an interregnum.
- intersex — an individual having reproductive organs or external sexual characteristics of both male and female.
- intertex — (obsolete) To intertwine; to weave or bind together.
- janitrix — A female janitor.
- jaxartes — a river in central Asia, flowing NW from the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan, through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the Aral Sea. 1300 miles (2100 km) long.
- ketoxime — (organic chemistry) Any oxime derived from an ketone; general formula R2C=NOH.
- land tax — law: includes all land sb owns
- laxation — a loosening or relaxing.
- laxative — a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.
- loxodont — having molar teeth with shallow depressions between the ridges.
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- luxmeter — a device for measuring the brightness or illumination of a surface
- luxurist — a lover of luxury
- malaxate — To soften, especially by kneading with the hands.
- manx cat — a tailless variety of the domestic cat.
- matchbox — a small box, usually of cardboard, for matches.
- matrixes — Plural form of matrix.
- maxicoat — a long coat extending to the ankle
- maximist — a person who makes or uses maxims
- maximite — a powerful explosive consisting primarily of picric acid.
- methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
- mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- mixtures — Plural form of mixture.
- monitrix — (archaic) A female monitor; a monitress.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- myxocyte — one of the stellate or polyhedral cells in mucous tissue
- myxomata — Plural form of myxoma.
- 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
- neotoxin — a newly developed toxin
- nest box — a box in a henhouse in which domestic chickens lay eggs
- 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.
- octuplex — relating to a form of telegraphy in which eight communications can be sent along one wire at the same time
- orthodox — of, relating to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.
- ototoxic — having a harmful effect on the organs or nerves concerned with hearing and balance.
- outfoxed — to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
- outfoxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outfox.
- oxidated — Geochemistry. any of the class of sediments consisting chiefly of oxides of iron or manganese.
- oximeter — an instrument for measuring the oxygen saturation of the hemoglobin in a sample of blood.
- oximetry — the measuring of oxygen saturation of the blood by means of an oximeter.
- oxtongue — any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Picris, having oblong bristly leaves and clusters of dandelion-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- oxysalts — any salt of an oxyacid.
- oxytocia — rapid childbirth.
- oxytocic — of or causing the stimulation of the involuntary muscle of the uterus.