9-letter words containing x, s, t
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- ketoximes — Plural form of ketoxime.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- marxisant — sympathetic to Marxism
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- maxiskirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.
- mixmaster — a disc jockey
- narthexes — Plural form of narthex.
- nonsexist — not showing prejudice on the basis of gender: nonsexist language in business letters.
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- parataxis — the placing together of sentences, clauses, or phrases without a conjunctive word or words, as Hurry up, it is getting late! I came—I saw—I conquered.
- piscatrix — a female angler; a fisherwoman
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
- quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- sales tax — a tax on receipts from sales, usually added to the selling price by the seller.
- saulteaux — a member of an American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, a division of the Ojibwa.
- saxitoxin — a powerful neurotoxin, C 1 0 H 1 7 N 7 O 4 , produced by the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax catenella, the causative agent of red tide.
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- sex-typed — characterized as appropriate for or of one sex rather than the other
- sextantal — pertaining to the weight standard that determined the worth of Roman coins
- sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
- sextoness — a female sexton or the wife of a sexton
- sextuplet — a group or combination of six things.
- sextuplex — sixfold; sextuple.
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- sixteener — a poetic verse of sixteen syllables
- sixteenmo — Also called sextodecimo. a book size (about 4×6 in.; 10×15 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 16 leaves or 32 pages.
- sixteenth — next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
- sixth man — a team's best substitute.
- sixtus ii — Saint, died a.d. 258, pope 257–258.
- sixtus iv — (Francesco della Rovere) 1414–84, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1471–84.
- sixty-odd — around sixty; approximately sixty (people or things)
- sixty-one — a cardinal number, 60 plus 1.
- sixty-six — a cardinal number, 60 plus 6.
- sixty-two — a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
- st. croix — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- stamp tax — a tax whose revenue is derived from the sale of stamps that are required to be affixed to certain retail merchandise and legal documents.
- stone axe — a primitive axe made of chipped stone
- strongbox — a strongly made, lockable box or chest for safeguarding valuable possessions, as money, jewels, or documents.
- stub axle — a short axle that carries one of the front steered wheels of a motor vehicle and is capable of limited angular movement about a kingpin
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subluxate — to partially dislocate
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- swift fox — a small fox, Vulpes velox, of the plains of W North America
- tax stamp — a stamp required to be affixed to certain products, documents, etc., before they change hands to indicate that a tax has been paid.