10-letter words containing x, e
- bobbysoxer — an adolescent girl wearing bobbysocks, esp in the 1940s
- borax bead — a bead of fused borax, used in chemical analysis for the identification of certain metal oxides.
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- bordereaux — a detailed memorandum, especially one in which documents are listed.
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- box clever — to behave in a careful and cunning way
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- box-office — of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater: a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
- brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cache-sexe — a small cloth or band worn, as by an otherwise nude dancer, to conceal the genitals
- carborexic — a person who is regarded as being obsessed with reducing their carbon footprint
- card index — A card index is a number of cards with information written on them which are arranged in a particular order, usually alphabetical, so that you can find the information you want easily.
- cefadroxil — A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cefuroxime — (pharmaceutical drug) A second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cephalexin — a cephalosporin antibiotic prescribed for mild infections of the skin, ears, throat, lungs, or urinary tract
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chalumeaux — Plural form of chalumeau.
- charles ix — 1550–74, king of France (1560–74), son of Catherine de' Medici and Henry II: his reign was marked by war between Huguenots and Catholics
- charles xi — 1655–97, king of Sweden (1660–97), who established an absolute monarchy and defeated Denmark (1678)
- chatterbox — A chatterbox is someone who talks a lot.
- chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
- chen duxiu — 1879–1942, Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.
- chickenpox — Chickenpox is a disease which gives you a high temperature and red spots that itch.
- ciphertext — encrypted text
- circumflex — A circumflex or a circumflex accent is a symbol written over a vowel in French and other languages, usually to indicate that it should be pronounced longer than usual. It is used for example in the word 'rôle'.
- clarenceux — the second King-of-Arms in England
- clement ix — (Giulio Rospigliosi) 1600–69, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1667–69.
- clement xi — (Giovanni Francesco Albani) 1649–1721, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1700–21.
- climaxless — without a climax
- coexecutor — a person acting jointly with another or others as executor
- coexistent — Existing at the same time as something else.
- coexisting — to exist together or at the same time.
- coextended — Simple past tense and past participle of coextend.
- commixture — a mixture
- complexify — to make or become complex
- complexing — Complexing is a process in which a complex is formed.
- complexion — When you refer to someone's complexion, you are referring to the natural colour or condition of the skin on their face.
- complexity — Complexity is the state of having many different parts connected or related to each other in a complicated way.
- complexone — any chelating agent, such as EDTA, used for the analytical determination of metals
- connexions — Plural form of connexion.
- contexting — Present participle of context.