9-letter words containing x
- auxotonic — (of muscle contraction) occurring against increasing force
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- axanthism — (zoology) Absence of yellow pigmentation.
- axiomatic — If something is axiomatic, it seems to be obviously true.
- axis deer — an Asian deer, Cervus (Axis) axis, of India and Sri Lanka, having a reddish-brown coat spotted with white.
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- axolemmas — Plural form of axolemma.
- b complex — vitamin B (complex)
- bandboxes — Plural form of bandbox.
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- battle-ax — a heavy ax with a wide blade, formerly used as a weapon of war
- battleaxe — Alternative spelling of battle-ax.
- beam axle — A beam axle is a rigid beam which connects a nearside (= on the side near the pavement) wheel and an offside (= on the side away from the pavement) wheel.
- beatboxer — (music) A performer who imitates the sound of musical instruments, especially percussion, with his or her voice.
- beatboxes — Plural form of beatbox.
- beeswaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of beeswax.
- beeswaxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beeswax.
- bellatrix — the third brightest star in the constellation Orion
- betamaxed — (jargon) When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition. E.g. "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market". The Betamex videotape standard lost to VHS.
- biaxially — in a biaxial way
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- bisectrix — the bisector of the angle between the optic axes of a crystal
- bissextus — February 29th: the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400, a rule introduced by the Gregorian calendar) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year.
- bitty box — (abuse) (Or "calculator") /bit'ee boks/ A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see Get a real computer!). See also mess-dos, toaster, toy.
- black box — A black box is an electronic device in an aircraft which records information about its flights. Black boxes are often used to provide evidence about accidents.
- black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
- blue onyx — jasper stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
- bobby sox — indicating or associated with the wearing of bobbysocks; adolescent: strictly a bobbysocks crowd; the bobbysocks generation.
- bomb hoax — a hoax consisting of telling the authorities that a bomb has been planted in a public place when in fact it hasn't
- box elder — a medium-sized fast-growing widely cultivated North American maple, Acer negundo, which has compound leaves with lobed leaflets
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- box score — In baseball and basketball, a box score is a printed table of statistics showing how each player performed in a game.
- box stall — a small stall with four walls for holding a horse
- box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
- box store — a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- boxed out — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
- boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
- boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
- boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- bruxelles — Brussels
- bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
- buxtehude — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1637–1707, Danish composer and organist, resident in Germany from 1668, who influenced Bach and Handel
- cable box — an electronic device that allows cable television channels to be viewed by a subscriber.
- cacomixle — Alternative spelling of cacomixl.
- calixtine — a member of a body of Hussites in the 15th century holding that the chalice as well as the bread should be received by the laity in the Eucharist.