8-letter words containing x, u
- exergues — Plural form of exergue.
- exhausts — Plural form of exhaust.
- exhumate — (obsolete) To exhume; to disinter.
- exhuming — Present participle of exhume.
- exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- exiguous — Very small in size or amount.
- eximious — (archaic) Pre-eminent, outstanding.
- exoduses — Plural form of exodus.
- exonumia — Coinlike objects.
- exordium — The beginning or introductory part, especially of a discourse or treatise.
- exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
- expounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expound.
- expugned — Simple past tense and past participle of expugn.
- expulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of expulse.
- expunged — Simple past tense and past participle of expunge.
- expunger — One who expunges.
- extremum — The maximum or minimum value of a function.
- extruded — Simple past tense and past participle of extrude.
- extruder — A machine that extrudes material through shaped dies.
- extrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extrude.
- extubate — (surgery) To remove a tube from a hollow organ or from an airway.
- exudates — Plural form of exudate.
- exultant — Triumphantly happy.
- exulting — Present participle of exult.
- exuviate — (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
- fabliaux — Plural form of fabliau.
- faux fur — artificial animal pelt
- faux pas — a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
- fauxhawk — An imitation of the Mohawk (=UK Mohican) hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
- fixature — anything that holds an object in place, whether by physical or chemical means
- fixtured — Simple past tense and past participle of fixture.
- fixtures — something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.: a light fixture; kitchen fixtures.
- flexuous — full of bends or curves; sinuous.
- flexural — the act of flexing or bending.
- flexures — Plural form of flexure.
- fluxgate — (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
- fluxions — (obsolete, mathematics) differential calculus.
- fluxuate — Misspelling of fluctuate.
- fourplex — quadplex.
- fox hunt — the hunting of foxes with hounds
- foxhound — any of several breeds of medium-sized hounds trained to hunt foxes and having a glossy coat in combinations of black, tan, and white.
- fuse box — with circuit breakers
- geulincx — Arnold, 1624?–69, Belgian philosopher.
- giambeux — Obsolete form of jambeux.
- hanotaux — (Albert Auguste) Gabriel [al-ber oh-gyst ga-bree-el] /alˈbɛr oʊˈgüst ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1853–1944, French statesman and historian.
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
- huxleian — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- huxleyan — of, relating to, or characteristic or suggestive of Aldous Huxley or his writings.
- influxes — Plural form of influx.