8-letter words containing x, l
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
- piloxing — a system of exercise combining elements of Pilates and boxing
- pixelate — 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.
- 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.
- planet x — a planet (beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto) whose existence has been hypothesized but not confirmed.
- plateaux — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- poll tax — a capitation tax, the payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- 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).
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- re-expel — to expel again
- reflexed — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reflexly — in a reflex manner
- relaxant — of, relating to, or causing a relaxation.
- relaxing — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- relexify — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- rouleaux — a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.
- salt tax — any of various taxes imposed on salt, such as the French gabelle (abolished 1790) or that in India (abolished 1946)
- salt-box — a box in which salt is kept.
- salteaux — a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- sex cell — a spermatozoon or an ovum; gamete.
- sex life — If you refer to someone's sex life, you are referring to their sexual relationships and sexual activity.
- sex play — erotic caressing, especially as a prelude to sexual intercourse; foreplay.
- sexology — the study of sexual behavior.
- sextolet — a group of six equal musical notes or a sextuplet played in the time of four
- sextuple — consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
- sextuply — to offer a rejoinder
- sexually — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- smallpox — an acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs.
- 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.
- tableaux — a picture, as of a scene.
- tax bill — a parliamentary bill relating to taxation
- tax levy — the amount of money charged as taxation on particular assets or goods
- tax loss — a loss sustained by a company that can be set against future profits for tax purposes
- tax sale — the sale of real property, as land, usually at auction by a public authority, in order to pay delinquent taxes assessed upon its owner.
- taxables — people, income, property, etc, that is subject to tax
- teletext — a system that allows viewers having television sets with special decoders to receive signals that display printed information as well as graphics on their screens.
- textiles — any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.
- textless — the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
- textural — the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
- 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.