8-letter words containing x, s
- salteaux — a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba
- same-sex — of or relating to two or more persons of the same gender: same-sex friendships.
- sardonyx — a chalcedony that is used for cameos and has sard and chalcedony of another color, usually white, arranged in straight parallel bands.
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- saxatile — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saxicole — living on or among rocks
- saxonian — a state in E central Germany. 6561 sq. mi. (16,990 sq. km). Capital: Dresden.
- saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- scrumpox — a skin infection caused by the herpes virus which is spread among players in a scrum
- seed box — a box for storing seeds until they are ready for planting
- 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.
- sex shop — a store that sells products relating to sexual interests or activities.
- sex show — a live performance that customers pay to watch in which people perform sexual acts
- sex tape — a recording of a sexual encounter, esp one involving a celebrity
- sex tour — a vacation to a destination that has no restrictions on sexual services or activities, as prostitution.
- sex work — prostitution.
- sex-text — to send a text message of a sexual nature to (someone)
- sexed up — sexually aroused.
- sexed-up — sexually aroused.
- sexenary — senary.
- sexiness — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- 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.
- shaoxing — a city in NE Zhejiang province, in E China.
- shoe box — cardboard box in which shoes are sold
- siloxane — any of the class of compounds containing the structural unit R 2 SiO, where R is an organic group or hydrogen.
- six-pack — six bottles or cans of a beverage, as beer or a soft drink, packaged and sold especially as a unit.
- six-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing six pips.
- sixpence — (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of six pennies.
- sixpenny — of the amount or value of sixpence; costing sixpence.
- sixscore — one hundred and twenty
- sixtieth — next after the fifty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 60.
- sixtus i — Saint, pope a.d. 116?–125?.
- sixtus v — (Felice Peretti) 1521–90, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1585–90.
- sixtyish — more or less sixty
- 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.
- smokebox — a chamber in a steam engine or boiler where smoke is collected
- snuffbox — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
- soap-box — Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
- soundbox — a chamber in a musical instrument, as the body of a violin, for increasing the sonority of its tone.
- sparaxis — any plant of the cormous S African genus Sparaxis, esp S. grandiflora and S. tricolor, grown for their dainty spikes of star-shaped purple, red, or orange flowers: family Iridaceae
- spinifex — any of several Australian grasses of the genera Spinifex, Plectrachne, or Triodia, having spiny seeds and stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that grow in dense masses.
- spintext — a preacher
- subaxial — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or forming an axis: an axial relationship.