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8-letter words containing x, a, i

  • pixilate — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
  • preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
  • prefixal — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
  • proximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
  • relaxing — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
  • rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
  • saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
  • saxicole — living on or among rocks
  • saxonian — a state in E central Germany. 6561 sq. mi. (16,990 sq. km). Capital: Dresden.
  • saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
  • saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
  • shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
  • siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
  • six-pack — six bottles or cans of a beverage, as beer or a soft drink, packaged and sold especially as a unit.
  • 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
  • subaxial — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or forming an axis: an axial relationship.
  • suffixal — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
  • tax bill — a parliamentary bill relating to taxation
  • tax bite — an amount of money deducted from your income in the form of tax
  • tax disc — In Britain, a tax disc is a small round piece of paper displayed on cars and motorcycles which proves that the owner has paid road tax.
  • taxation — the act of taxing.
  • taxative — of, relating to, or involving taxation
  • taxiarch — an Athenian commander in charge of a company of soldiers
  • the axis — the alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Japan, established in 1936 and lasting until their defeat in World War II
  • toxaemia — blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
  • toxicant — poisonous; toxic.
  • 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.
  • triaxial — having three axes.
  • uniaxial — having one axis.
  • unixware — (operating system)   Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
  • vax mips — (benchmark)   (Or VAX Unit of Performance, VUP) The processing power normally attributed to a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/780. Future VAX systems were rated according to this scale (e.g. VAX 8350's being 2.7 VUPs per CPU). A MicroVAX II is normally associated with 0.9 VUPs and at a later time the MicroVUP was coined to rate VAX workstations. The use of the VUP by Digital Equipment Corporation has been replaced with more standard benchmarks (SPECint and SPECfp) in the DEC Alpha processor systems.
  • vexation — the act of vexing.
  • waxbills — Plural form of waxbill.
  • waxiness — The quality of being waxy.
  • waxwings — Plural form of waxwing.
  • xankāndi — capital of Nagorno-Karabakh: pop. 33,000
  • xanthein — the part of the coloring matter in yellow flowers that is soluble in water. Compare xanthin (def 1).
  • xanthian — of or relating to the ancient city of Xanthus.
  • xanthide — (obsolete, organic chemistry) Any derivative of xanthogen.
  • xanthine — a crystalline, nitrogenous compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 O 2 , related to uric acid, occurring in urine, blood, and certain animal and vegetable tissues.
  • xanthism — a condition of skin, fur, or feathers in which yellow coloration predominates
  • xantippe — flourished late 5th century b.c, wife of Socrates.
  • xeransis — the gradual loss of tissue moisture
  • xerantic — pertaining to xeransis
  • xiangtan — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
  • xinjiang — autonomous region of NW China, between Tibet & Kazakhstan: 635,832 sq mi (1,646,799 sq km); pop. 15,370,000; cap. Ürümqi
  • zelatrix — a nun who monitors the behaviour of younger nuns
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