8-letter words that end in x
- aftertax — remaining after applicable taxes have been deducted: a sharp decrease in her aftertax income.
- anthelix — a prominent curved fold of cartilage just inside the outer rim of the external ear
- appendix — Your appendix is a small closed tube inside your body which is attached to your digestive system.
- astyanax — the young son of Hector and Andromache, who was hurled from the walls of Troy by the Greeks
- aviatrix — a female aviator
- axle-box — the journal box of a rotating axle
- bandeaux — Plural form of bandeau.
- bank box — safe-deposit box.
- 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.
- bay lynx — bobcat
- biconvex — (of a lens) having convex faces on both sides; convexo-convex
- 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
- 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)
- brainbox — the skull
- breadbox — A breadbox is the same as a bread bin.
- bsd unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- 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.
- 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.
- carnifex — an executioner
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- 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
- 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
- coin box — the part of a coin-operated machine into which coins are placed
- coturnix — any of several quails of the genus Coturnix of the family Phasianidae
- creatrix — (rare) A female creator.
- 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.
- 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.
- deed box — a lockable metal box for storing documents
- deep-six — To deep-six something means to get rid of it or destroy it.
- devereux — Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1566–1601, British statesman, soldier, and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I.
- devo max — an arrangement in which a central government transfers the maximum amount of authority to a regional government while still retaining sovereignty over it
- disannex — to separate (a place or thing that was formally annexed or joined to another)
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