8-letter words containing x, s
- exosomes — Plural form of exosome.
- exospore — The outer layer of the membrane in some spores.
- expanses — Plural form of expanse.
- expensed — Simple past tense and past participle of expense.
- expenses — Plural form of expense.
- expiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expiate.
- explains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explain.
- explants — Plural form of explant.
- explodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explode.
- exploits — Plural form of exploit.
- explores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explore.
- exposing — Present participle of expose.
- exposome — a collection of environmental factors, such as stress and diet, to which an individual is exposed and which can have an effect on health
- exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
- expounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expound.
- expresso — Alternative spelling of espresso.
- expulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of expulse.
- exsecant — a trigonometric function related to the secant function
- exserted — Simple past tense and past participle of exsert.
- extensin — (biochemistry) Any of a family of flexuous, rod-like, hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) of the plant cell wall.
- extensor — A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.
- extracts — Plural form of extract.
- extrados — The upper or outer curve of an arch.
- extremes — Plural form of extreme.
- extrorse — Turned outward.
- extrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extrude.
- exudates — Plural form of exudate.
- fair sex — women as a group (usually used facetiously): an insult to the fair sex.
- faux pas — a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
- faxbacks — Plural form of faxback.
- fixators — Plural form of fixator.
- fixities — Plural form of fixity.
- fixtures — something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.: a light fixture; kitchen fixtures.
- flaxseed — the seed of flax, yielding linseed oil; linseed.
- flexcash — flexdollars.
- flexions — the act of bending.
- flexuous — full of bends or curves; sinuous.
- flexures — Plural form of flexure.
- fluxions — (obsolete, mathematics) differential calculus.
- foxholes — Plural form of foxhole.
- foxiness — The characteristic or quality of being foxy.
- foxtails — Plural form of foxtail.
- fuse box — with circuit breakers
- galaxies — Plural form of galaxy.
- geotaxis — oriented movement of a motile organism toward or away from a gravitational force.
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- hatboxes — Plural form of hatbox.
- have sex — have intercourse
- hex sign — any of various magical symbols of usually stylized design, as those painted on barns by the Pennsylvania Dutch for protection against evil spirits and now sometimes used for purely decorative purposes.
- hexagons — Plural form of hexagon.