10-letter words containing x, c
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- french pox — (in historical use) syphilis.
- fungitoxic — toxic to fungi.
- haemotoxic — destructive to red blood cells
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hexactinal — having six spicules
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- hydroxylic — (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or containing hydroxyl groups.
- hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- in context — If something is seen in context or if it is put into context, it is considered together with all the factors that relate to it.
- income tax — a tax levied on incomes, especially an annual government tax on personal incomes.
- index card — a card, often relatively small, as 3 × 5 inches (7.6 × 12.7 cm), used in noting or recording information and usually filed in an index.
- index case — the first case of a disease, or the primary case referred to in a report
- inexpected — Obsolete form of unexpected.
- inexplicit — not explicit or clear; not clearly stated.
- innocent x — (Giambattista Pamfili) 1574–1655, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1644–55.
- insect wax — Chinese wax.
- intoxicant — an intoxicating agent, as alcoholic liquor or certain drugs.
- intoxicate — to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, especially to excite or stupefy with liquor.
- jockey box — a glove compartment, especially in a truck.
- kickboxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- lexicalise — Alternative spelling of lexicalize.
- lexicality — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lexicalize — to convert (an affix, a phrase, etc.) into a lexical item, as in using the suffix -ism as the noun ism.
- lexicology — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- loxodromic — noting, pertaining to, or according to loxodromes or rhumb lines.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- luxuriancy — Obsolete form of luxuriance.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- mixed acid — any mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, used as a nitrating agent in the manufacture of explosives, plastics, etc.
- mixed race — of parents from different ethnicities
- mixed-race — denoting or relating to a person whose parents belong to different racial or ethnic groups: mixed-race Brazilians.
- mycotoxins — Plural form of mycotoxin.
- myxomycete — an organism of the phylum Myxomycota (or, in some classifications, the class Myxomycetes), comprising the slime molds.
- nectocalyx — the swimming bell of a jellyfish
- neurotoxic — poisonous to nerve tissue, as to the brain or spinal cord.
- new mexico — a state in the SW United States. 121,666 sq. mi. (315,115 sq. km). Capital: Santa Fe. Abbreviation: NM (for use with zip code), N. Mex., N.M.
- next, inc. — (company) The company founded by Steve Jobs [in ?] following his involuntary departure from Apple Computer, Inc.. NeXT produced both the hardware and operating system (NEXTSTEP). They changed their name to "NeXT Software" when they stopped making hardware and released NEXTSTEP For Intel processors. The company was bought by Apple in 1997(?).
- noncomplex — not complex or complicated; simple
- nonlexical — Not lexical.
- nux vomica — the seed of the orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.
- ochratoxin — a toxin produced by Aspergillus ochraceus and several other molds that commonly contaminate cereal grains: causes intestinal inflammation and kidney and liver degeneration when ingested by animals.
- optic axis — (in a crystal exhibiting double refraction) the direction or directions, uniaxial or biaxial, respectively, along which this phenomenon does not occur.
- orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
- orthorexic — Having a fixation with healthy or righteous eating.
- overexcite — to excite too much.
- oxycalcium — pertaining to or produced by oxygen and calcium.
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.