10-letter words containing x
- axial flow — the flow of air parallel to the longitudinal axis of the engine of a jet aircraft
- axial-flow — having a fluid flow parallel to an axis of rotation, as in a turbine.
- axillaries — Anatomy, Ornithology. pertaining to the axilla.
- axinomancy — prediction of the future using the head of an axe or hatchet
- axiomatics — the study of axioms
- axiomatize — to reduce to a system of basic truths or axioms
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- axoplasmic — of or relating to the axoplasm
- ballot box — A ballot box is the box into which ballot papers are put after people have voted.
- battle-axe — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battle-axe, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
- battleaxes — Plural form of battleaxe.
- be excused — to go to the lavatory
- beatboxing — a form of hip-hop music in which the voice is used to simulate percussion instruments
- beaux arts — noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
- beaux-arts — relating to the classical decorative style, esp that of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
- before-tax — before tax has been deducted; gross
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bikini wax — a treatment to remove hair from the bikini line with hot wax
- bimble box — type of dense Australian tree
- binhex 4.0 — (file format) A seven bit wide representation of a Macintosh file with CRC error checking. Binhex 4.0 files are designed for communication of Mac files over long distance, possibly noisy, seven bit wide paths.
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- bissextile — (of a month or year) containing the extra day of a leap year
- black flux — a reducing flux consisting of finely divided carbon and potassium carbonate.
- black taxi — a minibus used to transport workers from the townships to the city centres
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blue phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
- bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
- bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
- borax bead — a bead of fused borax, used in chemical analysis for the identification of certain metal oxides.
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- box canyon — a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
- box social — a fund-raising event at which donated box meals are auctioned
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- box-office — of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater: a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature