8-letter words containing x
- banjaxed — destroyed or ruined
- bank box — safe-deposit box.
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- base box — a unit used in the sale of tin plate, equal to the total area of 112 sheets each measuring 14 by 20 inches (35 by 50 cm), or 31,360 square inches (196,000 sq. cm).
- battleax — If you call a middle-aged or older woman a battleax, you mean she is very difficult and unpleasant because of her fierce and determined attitude.
- bauxitic — consisting of, containing or resembling bauxite
- bay lynx — bobcat
- biconvex — (of a lens) having convex faces on both sides; convexo-convex
- bing xin — (Xie Wanying) 1900–1999, Chinese writer.
- biotoxin — a toxic substance produced by a living organism
- bisexual — Someone who is bisexual is sexually attracted to both men and women.
- blaxican — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person of mixed-race heritage who self-identifies racially and culturally as both African American and Mexican-American.
- blue box — a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled
- blue fox — a variety of the arctic fox that has a pale grey winter coat and is bred for its fur
- bobbysox — bobbysocks
- bolloxed — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bone wax — a mixture of wax, oil, and carbolic acid applied to the cut surface of a bone to prevent bleeding
- boom box — A boom box is a large portable machine for playing music, especially one that is played loudly in public by young people.
- bordeaux — a port in SW France, on the River Garonne: a major centre of the wine trade. Pop: 235 878 (2006)
- box beam — a beam or girder built up from shapes and having a hollow, rectangular cross section.
- box bolt — a rod-shaped bolt of rectangular section for fastening a door or the like, attached to the inside of the door at the edge and sliding into a socket on the frame.
- box calf — black calfskin leather, tanned with chromium salts, having a pattern of fine creases formed by boarding
- box coat — a plain short coat that hangs loosely from the shoulders
- box file — a rigid file which opens like a box, usually made of strong cardboard and able to hold a large quantity of documents
- box iron — a flatiron that is heated by inserting live coals or a piece of hot metal in its boxlike holder.
- box keel — a keel in the form of a box beam and having internal space for pipes, ballast, etc.
- box kite — a kite with a boxlike frame open at both ends
- box loom — a loom with a number of shuttle boxes on one or both sides of the lay, enabling the weaver to use a variety of colors in the filling direction.
- box nail — a nail having a long shank, smooth or barbed, with a sharp point and a flat head.
- box plot — a graphic representation of a distribution by a rectangle, the ends of which mark the maximum and minimum values, and in which the median and first and third quartiles are marked by lines parallel to the ends.
- box room — a storage room, especially one for trunks, suitcases, etc.
- box seat — a seat in a theatre box
- box sill — a sill for a building frame, composed of a plate resting on the basement wall and a joist or header at the outer edge of the plate, as well as a soleplate for the studs resting either directly on the joists or on the rough flooring.
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- boxberry — the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen
- boxboard — a tough paperboard made from wood and wastepaper pulp: used for making boxes, etc
- boxiness — the quality of being boxy
- boxology — (graphics) /bok-sol'*-jee/ ASCII art. This term implies a more restricted domain, that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has a lot of boxology in it." Compare macrology.
- boxthorn — matrimony vine
- brainbox — the skull
- breadbox — A breadbox is the same as a bread bin.
- broadaxe — a type of axe with a large blade
- bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
- bsd unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- bx cable — a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.
- cachexia — a generally weakened condition of body or mind resulting from any debilitating chronic disease
- cachexic — cachetic
- cacodoxy — an erroneous doctrine or heterodoxy
- cacomixl — The ring-tailed civet cat, Bassaris astuta.
- cake mix — Cake mix is a powder that you mix with eggs and water or milk to make a cake. You bake the mixture in the oven.