8-letter words containing x
- calexico — a town in S California.
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- call box — A call box is the same as a telephone box.
- camelpox — A poxviral disease of camels that causes skin lesions.
- cape fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- carboxyl — the group COOH, characteristic of organic acids, including fatty acids and amino acids
- carfaxes — Plural form of carfax.
- carnifex — an executioner
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- cathexes — Plural form of cathexis.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- cextract — (programming, tool) A C prototype extractor by Adam Bryant <[email protected]>. cextract can generate header files for large multi-file C programs, and will automatically generate prototypes for all of the functions in such a program. It can also generate a sorted list of all functions and their locations. cextract version 1.7 works with both ANSI C and K&R C and runs under Unix and VMS. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed.
- chad box — (hardware) (IBM called this a "chip box") A metal box about the size of a lunchbox (or in some models a large wastebasket), for collecting the chad that accumulated in Iron Age card punches. You had to open the covers of the card punch periodically and empty the chad box. The bit bucket was notionally the equivalent device in the CPU enclosure, which was typically across the room in another great grey-and-blue box.
- chamonix — a town in SE France, in the Alps at the foot of Mont Blanc: skiing and tourist centre. Pop: 9514 (2006)
- chapeaux — a hat.
- chateaux — (in France) a castle or fortress.
- checkbox — A small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user, is filled with a check mark to show that the feature described alongside it has been enabled.
- chip box — chad box
- chronaxy — Alternative form of chronaxie.
- cicatrix — the tissue that forms in a wound during healing; scar
- cineplex — a large cinema complex
- clackbox — the casing enclosing a clack
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- climaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of climax.
- climaxes — Plural form of climax.
- coexists — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coexist.
- coextend — to extend or cause to extend equally in space or time
- coin box — the part of a coin-operated machine into which coins are placed
- commixed — Simple past tense and past participle of commix.
- commixes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commix.
- confixed — Simple past tense and past participle of confix.
- connexes — a large metal cargo container used by the U.S. Army for shipping supplies, as to overseas bases.
- contexts — Plural form of context.
- convexed — Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
- convexly — having a surface that is curved or rounded outward. Compare concave (def 1).
- corixids — Plural form of corixid.
- cotopaxi — a volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the world's highest active volcano Height: 5896 m (19 344 ft)
- coturnix — any of several quails of the genus Coturnix of the family Phasianidae
- coxalgia — pain in the hip joint
- coxcombs — Plural form of coxcomb.
- coxiness — the quality of being coxy
- coxswain — The coxswain of a lifeboat or other small boat is the person who steers the boat.
- creatrix — (rare) A female creator.
- crotoxin — a toxin in the venom of the North American rattlesnake, Crotalus terrificus.
- crucifix — A crucifix is a cross with a figure of Christ on it.
- curatrix — a woman in charge of a museum, art gallery, or similar institution
- curtalax — cutlass.
- cuxhaven — a port in NW Germany, at the mouth of the River Elbe. Pop: 52 876 (2003 est)
- cybersex — Cybersex involves using the Internet for sexual purposes, especially by exchanging sexual messages with another person.
- damp box — a box that is lined with moist material for keeping clay in a plastic state.