Words containing axis
4 letter words containing axis
- axis — An axis is an imaginary line through the middle of something.
5 letter words containing axis
6 letter words containing axis
- -taxis — indicating movement towards or away from a specified stimulus
- a-axis — the horizontal crystallographic axis passing from front to back.
- axised — having an axis
- axises — the line about which a rotating body, such as the earth, turns.
- b-axis — the horizontal crystallographic axis that is in a right-left position.
7 letter words containing axis
- synaxis — an assembly for religious worship, especially for the celebration of the Eucharist.
8 letter words containing axis
- ataraxis — The absence of stress or anxiety; serenity.
- geotaxis — oriented movement of a motile organism toward or away from a gravitational force.
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
9 letter words containing axis
- aerotaxis — the movement of organisms towards or away from oxygen caused by changes in oxygen concentration
- clinoaxis — in a monoclinic crystal, the lateral axis which forms an oblique angle with the vertical axis
- cytotaxis — movement of cells due to external stimulation
- epistaxis — nosebleed
- homotaxis — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
10 letter words containing axis
- anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
- heliotaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from sunlight.
- hydrotaxis — oriented movement toward or away from water.
11 letter words containing axis
- anaphylaxis — extreme sensitivity to an injected antigen, esp a protein, following a previous injection
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- heterotaxis — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- ideopraxist — a person who is impelled to carry out an idea
12 letter words containing axis
- axisymmetric — being symmetrical around an axis
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
- morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
13 letter words containing axis
- tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- zoopraxiscope — an early type of motion-picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which the images were drawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotating opaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source was used.
14 letter words containing axis
- axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
16 letter words containing axis
- chemoprophylaxis — the prevention of disease using chemical drugs
17 letter words containing axis
- axis-of-abscissas — x-axis (def 1).
- axis-of-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
- psychoprophylaxis — Lamaze method.
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