8-letter words that end in x
- soundbox — a chamber in a musical instrument, as the body of a violin, for increasing the sonority of its tone.
- spinifex — any of several Australian grasses of the genera Spinifex, Plectrachne, or Triodia, having spiny seeds and stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that grow in dense masses.
- subindex — an index to a part or subdivision of a larger category.
- superfix — a suprasegmental feature having an identifiable meaning or grammatical function, as the stress pattern that distinguishes the noun record from the verb record or the parallel falling stress patterns of blackbird and highchair, reflecting a parallel relationship between the elements.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- supersex — a sterile organism in which the ratio between the sex chromosomes is disturbed
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- sweatbox — a sauna or other enclosure for sweating.
- swinepox — a variety of chicken pox.
- tableaux — a picture, as of a scene.
- text box — computing: space for typing text
- the manx — the people of the Isle of Man
- tick box — A tick box is a small square on a form, questionnaire, or test in which you put a tick to show that you agree with a statement.
- title ix — a clause in the 1972 Education Act stating that no one shall because of sex be denied the benefits of any educational program of activity that receives direct federal aid.
- toadflax — a common European plant, Linaria vulgaris, of the figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy yellow-and-orange flowers, naturalized as a weed in the U.S.
- tonneaux — a rear part or compartment of an automobile body, containing seats for passengers.
- tool box — container for handheld implements
- tooth ax — an ax for dressing stone, having two serrated edges.
- tote box — a box for holding and carrying tools, machine parts, etc.
- tractrix — a curve whose tangents are all of equal length; the involute of a catenary.
- transfix — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- tymcom-x — (operating system) Tymshare's operating system which ran for many years on Tymshare's PDP-10s. It was a descendent of TOPS-10 but had many of the important features of TOPS-20 such as real paging and controllable/spawnable processes. TYMCOM-X, one of the best kept secrets in the PDP-10 folklore, was written by Bill Weiher, Vance Socci <[email protected]>, Allen Ginzburg, Karen Kolling, Art Atkinson, Gary Morgenthaler (founder of the company that produced IDRIS), Todd Corenson and Murray Bowles. Some copies still run today. Most TYMNET development was done under TYMCOM-X and Tymshare sold a TYMCOM-X system to TRW to use in their credit reporting network, which was based on a purchased copy of TYMNET circa 1979.
- undertax — to tax at an insufficient level
- unix box — box
- usg unix — operating system /U-S-G yoo'niks/ Refers to AT&T Unix commercial versions after Version 7, especially System III and System V releases 1, 2, and 3. So called because during most of the lifespan of those versions AT&T's support crew was called the "Unix Support Group". Compare BSD.
- uv index — a measure, on a scale of 0 to 11, of the intensity of ultraviolet radiation from the sun at the sun's highest point on a particular day in a particular place, a higher number indicating greater exposure.
- videotex — an electronic information transmission and retrieval technology enabling interactive communication, for such purposes as data acquisition and dissemination and electronic banking and shopping, between typically large and diverse computer databases and users of home or office display terminals connected to telephone or cable-television lines, or through use of broadcast television signals.
- wall box — an enclosed iron or steel socket built into a masonry wall to support the end of a wooden beam.
- watchbox — a sentry's shelter
- water ox — water buffalo.
- waterpox — chickenpox
- wine box — wine sold in a cubic carton, usually of three-litre capacity, having a plastic lining and a tap for dispensing
- zelatrix — a nun who monitors the behaviour of younger nuns