10-letter words that end in x
- silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
- single tax — a tax, as on land, that constitutes the sole source of public revenue.
- single-sex — designated for, pertaining to, or serving only males or only females: a single-sex college.
- sluice-box — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
- squeezebox — a concertina or accordion.
- stephen ix — died 1058, pope 1057–58.
- superhelix — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- switch box — a box, usually of metal, containing one or more electric switches.
- tant mieux — so much the better
- thirty-six — a cardinal number, 30 plus 6.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- to the max — maximum.
- tree hyrax — an arboreal hyrax of the genus Dendrohyrax, of central and southern Africa.
- trisectrix — a trisecting line
- tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
- twenty-six — a cardinal number, 20 plus 6.
- unorthodox — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
- unsafe sex — sexual intercourse that does not use physical protection, such as a condom, or nonpenetrative methods to prevent the spread of such diseases as AIDS
- vanity box — a woman's box, larger than a vanity bag, used to carry cosmetics, etc
- weaker sex — the female sex; women (usually used facetiously): my life as a member of the weaker sex.
- wealth tax — a tax on personal property; capital levy
- window box — a box for growing plants, placed at or in a window.
- window tax — a tax on windows in houses levied between 1696 and 1851
- windows 9x — (operating system) A shorthand meaning Windows 95 or Windows 98.
- xylanthrax — (archaic) Wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite.
- yellow box — (operating system) Apple Computer, Inc.'s new development platform for building desktop, server, and web applications. Yellow Box is a rich object-oriented environment that is tightly integrated with Java and allows you to deploy applications across five platforms: Rhapsody, Rhapsody for Intel, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Mac OS. All Yellow Box-based products are an evolution of OpenStep - an operating system-independent, object-oriented application platform from NeXT. Integrating the cross-platform robustness of OpenStep with Apple's market-leading digital media and graphics technologies will differentiate the Yellow Box from other development platforms. "Yellow Box for Windows" is the run-time software (implemented as dynamically linked libraries) that allows Yellow Box applications to run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. Applications that use it will feature a full native Windows user interface.