10-letter words with X in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter X is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of X in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how X in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| experience | 21 | go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | experience vertigo |
| experiment | 21 | the testing of an idea | it was an experiment in living |
| expression | 19 | a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | pardon the expression |
| unexpected | 22 | not expected or anticipated | unexpected guests |
| excitement | 21 | something that agitates and arouses | he looked forward to the excitements of the day |
| exhibition | 22 | a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | - |
| homosexual | 22 | someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | - |
| expedition | 20 | a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | - |
| exaggerate | 19 | do something to an excessive degree | - |
| excellency | 24 | an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | - |
| extinction | 19 | complete annihilation | they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs |
| exhausting | 21 | having a debilitating effect | an exhausting job in the hot sun |
| excellence | 21 | an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | a center of manufacturing excellence |
| exercising | 20 | the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | he did some exercising |
| extraction | 19 | properties attributable to your ancestry | - |
| complexion | 23 | the coloring of a person's face | - |
| exchanging | 24 | - | - |
| exhaustion | 20 | serious weakening and loss of energy | - |
| relaxation | 17 | the act of making less strict | - |
| extinguish | 21 | extinguish by crushing | - |
| complexity | 26 | the quality of being intricate and compounded | he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers |
| excavation | 22 | the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | - |
| exclaiming | 22 | an abrupt excited utterance | there was much exclaiming over it |
| expiration | 19 | the act of expelling air from the lungs | - |
| expressive | 22 | characterized by expression | a very expressive face |
| expressway | 25 | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | - |
| expectancy | 26 | an expectation | - |
| unexplored | 20 | not yet discovered | - |
| explicitly | 24 | in an explicit manner | in his foreword Professor Clark puts it explicitly |
| expendable | 22 | (used of funds) remaining after taxes | - |
| toxicology | 23 | the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons | - |
| exonerated | 18 | freed from any question of guilt | - |
| exposition | 19 | a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | - |
| inflexible | 22 | incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances | an inflexible law |
| externally | 20 | with respect to the outside | - |
| excavating | 23 | - | - |
| exorbitant | 19 | greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | exorbitant rent |
| exhaustive | 23 | performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | an exhaustive study |
| inexorably | 22 | in an inexorable manner | time marches on inexorably |
| exacerbate | 21 | exasperate or irritate | - |
| exhumation | 22 | the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | - |
| unexploded | 21 | still capable of exploding or being fired | an unexploded bomb |
| annexation | 17 | incorporation by joining or uniting | - |
| extradited | 19 | - | - |
| exuberance | 21 | overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | - |
| inexorable | 19 | impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him |
| perplexing | 22 | lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it |
| sexologist | 18 | - | - |
| exorcising | 20 | - | - |
| intoxicate | 19 | make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | - |
| transfixed | 21 | having your attention fixated as though by a spell | - |
| exhalation | 20 | the act of expelling air from the lungs | - |
| asphyxiate | 25 | be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | - |
| excitation | 19 | something that agitates and arouses | - |
| expatriate | 19 | a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | American expatriates |
| neurotoxin | 17 | any toxin that affects neural tissues | - |
| extraneous | 17 | not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | water free of extraneous matter |
| coexisting | 20 | existing at the same time | - |
| hexavalent | 23 | - | - |
| oxygenated | 22 | - | - |
| exaltation | 17 | the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | - |
| unexamined | 20 | - | - |
| sexualized | 27 | - | - |
| exultation | 17 | the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | - |
| inexistent | 17 | - | - |
| transexual | 17 | a person who has undergone a sex change operation | - |
| maximizing | 31 | making as great as possible | - |
| exasperate | 19 | exasperate or irritate | - |
| explicable | 23 | capable of being explicated or accounted for | explicable behavior |
| exploitive | 22 | tending to exploit or make use of | - |
| anxiolytic | 22 | a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability | - |
| intoxicant | 19 | a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | - |
| undersexed | 19 | having a subnormal degree of sexual desire | - |
| reexamined | 20 | - | - |
| maximising | 22 | making as great as possible | - |
| expediency | 25 | the quality of being suited to the end in view | - |
| extendable | 20 | capable of being lengthened | - |
| contextual | 19 | relating to or determined by or in context | contextual information |
| alexanders | 18 | European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb | - |
| unexciting | 20 | not stimulating | - |
| perplexity | 24 | trouble or confusion resulting from complexity | - |
| overexpose | 22 | expose excessively | As a child, I was overexposed to French movies |
| exfoliated | 21 | - | - |
| expandable | 22 | able to expand or be expanded | - |
| expediting | 21 | - | - |
| expedience | 22 | the quality of being suited to the end in view | - |
| juxtaposed | 27 | placed side by side often for comparison | juxtaposed pictures |
| neurotoxic | 19 | poisonous to nerves or nerve cells | - |
| excitingly | 23 | in an exciting manner | at the time of its appearance, the movie must have seemed excitingly new, even revolutionary |
| exactitude | 20 | the quality of being exact | a man of great exactitude |
| exhilarate | 20 | fill with sublime emotion | - |
| executable | 21 | capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | - |
| expiratory | 22 | of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
| exotically | 22 | - | - |
| extirpated | 20 | - | - |
| extralegal | 18 | not regulated or sanctioned by law | there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances |
| extensible | 19 | capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out | an extensible measuring rule |
| detoxified | 22 | - | - |
| omnisexual | 19 | - | - |
| exaptation | 19 | - | - |
| exceedance | 22 | (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time | the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling |
| exceedence | 22 | - | - |
| exertional | 17 | - | - |
| explodable | 22 | - | - |
| textualize | 26 | - | - |
| textuality | 20 | - | - |
| zeaxanthin | 29 | yellow carotenoid (isomeric with lutein and occurs widely with it) that is the main pigment in yellow Indian corn | - |
| unsexiness | 17 | - | - |
| raloxifene | 20 | - | - |
| carborexic | 23 | - | - |
| cetuximabs | 23 | - | - |
| celecoxibs | 23 | - | - |
| checkboxes | 30 | - | - |
| ciguatoxin | 20 | - | - |
| chillaxing | 23 | - | - |
| antivaxxer | 27 | - | - |
| antivaxers | 20 | - | - |
| asphyxying | 29 | - | - |
| beatboxing | 22 | - | - |
| beatboxers | 21 | - | - |
| battleaxes | 19 | - | - |
| gloveboxes | 23 | - | - |
| hexathlons | 23 | - | - |
| hexadecyls | 26 | - | - |
| hydroxiums | 26 | - | - |
| hyperoxide | 26 | - | - |
| haemotoxin | 22 | - | - |
| haemotoxic | 24 | - | - |
| exoticizes | 28 | - | - |
| expendably | 25 | - | - |
| exsiccants | 21 | - | - |
| extreating | 18 | - | - |
| extropians | 19 | - | - |
| exoticized | 29 | - | - |
| exoticises | 19 | - | - |
| exergaming | 21 | - | - |
| exfiltrate | 20 | escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control | - |
| exoticised | 20 | - | - |
| fauxmances | 24 | - | - |
| duplexings | 21 | - | - |
| moneyboxes | 24 | - | - |
| meloxicams | 23 | - | - |
| nontextual | 17 | - | - |
| orthorexia | 20 | - | - |
| indextrous | 18 | - | - |
| rituximabs | 21 | - | - |
| sexcapades | 22 | - | - |
| sextuplied | 20 | - | - |
| sextuplies | 19 | - | - |
| pixelating | 20 | - | - |
| pixellates | 19 | - | - |
| pixilating | 20 | - | - |
| pixillates | 19 | - | - |
| triplexing | 20 | - | - |
| textspeaks | 23 | - | - |
| texturings | 18 | - | - |
| ubersexual | 19 | - | - |
| smokeboxes | 25 | - | - |
| sneakboxes | 23 | - | - |
| sulphoxide | 23 | - | - |
| tanorexics | 19 | - | - |
| cacomixles | 23 | - | - |
| cacodoxies | 22 | - | - |
| carboxylic | 26 | relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | - |
| carnifexes | 22 | - | - |
| cephalexin | 24 | an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract | - |
| cicatrixes | 21 | - | - |
| cineplexes | 21 | - | - |
| chronaxies | 22 | - | - |
| chemotaxes | 24 | - | - |
| chemotaxis | 24 | movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus | - |
| chionodoxa | 23 | - | - |
| coannexing | 20 | - | - |
| clackboxes | 27 | - | - |
| clangboxes | 22 | - | - |
| ciphertext | 24 | - | - |
| climaxless | 21 | - | - |
| commixtion | 23 | - | - |
| commixture | 23 | the act of mixing together | - |
| coexecutor | 21 | - | - |
| coexerting | 20 | - | - |
| coexistent | 19 | existing at the same time | - |
| coextended | 21 | - | - |
| connexions | 19 | - | - |
| complexest | 23 | - | - |
| complexify | 29 | have or develop complicating consequences | - |
| complexing | 24 | - | - |
| complexone | 23 | - | - |
| convexedly | 26 | - | - |
| convexness | 22 | the property possessed by a convex shape | - |
| contexture | 19 | - | - |
| coxcomical | 25 | - | - |
| coxinesses | 19 | - | - |
| coxswained | 23 | - | - |
| creatrixes | 19 | - | - |
| coturnixes | 19 | - | - |
| curtalaxes | 19 | - | - |
| curatrixes | 19 | - | - |
| cybersexes | 24 | - | - |
| crucifixes | 24 | - | - |
| cytotoxins | 22 | - | - |
| deoxidises | 19 | - | - |
| deoxidized | 29 | - | - |
| deoxidizer | 28 | - | - |
| deoxidizes | 28 | - | - |
| deoxidiser | 19 | - | - |
| deoxidated | 20 | - | - |
| deoxidates | 19 | - | - |
| deoxidised | 20 | - | - |
| defluxions | 21 | - | - |
| deflexures | 21 | - | - |
| deflexions | 21 | - | - |
| deindexing | 20 | - | - |
| boxberries | 21 | - | - |
| boxercises | 21 | - | - |
| brachyaxes | 27 | - | - |
| brachyaxis | 27 | - | - |
| boxhauling | 23 | - | - |
| boxinesses | 19 | - | - |
| boxkeepers | 25 | - | - |
| boxwallahs | 25 | - | - |
| brainboxes | 21 | - | - |
| bobbysoxer | 26 | an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) | - |
| breadboxes | 22 | - | - |
| autosexing | 18 | (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching | - |
| autotoxins | 17 | - | - |
| axenically | 22 | - | - |
| axoplasmic | 23 | - | - |
| axonometry | 22 | - | - |
| axolemmata | 21 | - | - |
| axialities | 17 | - | - |
| axillaries | 17 | - | - |
| axinomancy | 24 | - | - |
| axiologies | 18 | - | - |
| axiologist | 18 | - | - |
| axiomatics | 21 | - | - |
| axiomatise | 19 | - | - |
| axiomatize | 28 | - | - |
| auxochrome | 24 | - | - |
| auxometers | 19 | - | - |
| auxospores | 19 | - | - |
| auxotrophs | 22 | - | - |
| auxotrophy | 25 | - | - |
| aviatrixes | 20 | - | - |
| apoplexies | 21 | - | - |
| apoplexing | 22 | - | - |
| approximal | 23 | - | - |
| appendixes | 22 | - | - |
| antiauxins | 17 | - | - |
| anoxaemias | 19 | - | - |
| anthelixes | 20 | - | - |
| antisexist | 17 | - | - |
| antisexual | 17 | - | - |
| antitoxins | 17 | - | - |
| asexuality | 20 | having no evident sex or sex organs | - |
| asphyxiant | 25 | - | - |
| beeswaxing | 23 | - | - |
| bissextile | 19 | - | - |
| bisexually | 22 | - | - |
| aflatoxins | 20 | - | - |
| affluxions | 23 | - | - |
| aldohexose | 21 | a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group | - |
| annexments | 19 | - | - |
| amphimixes | 26 | - | - |
| amphimixis | 26 | reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete | - |
| ambosexual | 21 | - | - |
| ambidexter | 22 | - | - |
| ambisexual | 21 | - | - |
| anaphylaxy | 28 | - | - |
| amplexuses | 21 | - | - |
| admixtures | 20 | - | - |
| affixation | 23 | the act of attaching or affixing something | - |
| affixments | 25 | - | - |
| affixtures | 23 | - | - |
| heliotaxes | 20 | - | - |
| heliotaxis | 20 | - | - |
| hemotoxins | 22 | - | - |
| homeoboxes | 24 | - | - |
| heretrixes | 20 | - | - |
| heritrixes | 20 | - | - |
| hexamerous | 22 | - | - |
| hexarchies | 25 | - | - |
| hexastichs | 25 | - | - |
| hexastyles | 23 | - | - |
| hexokinase | 24 | - | - |
| hexapodies | 23 | - | - |
| hexaploidy | 26 | - | - |
| hexameters | 22 | - | - |
| hexametral | 22 | - | - |
| hexametric | 24 | - | - |
| hexandrian | 21 | - | - |
| hexandrous | 21 | - | - |
| hexangular | 21 | having six sides or divided into hexagons | - |
| hexaplaric | 24 | - | - |
| hexaploids | 23 | - | - |
| hexamerism | 24 | - | - |
| heterodoxy | 24 | any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | - |
| hexachords | 26 | - | - |
| hexactinal | 22 | - | - |
| hexadecane | 23 | - | - |
| hexaemeric | 24 | - | - |
| hexaemeron | 22 | - | - |
| hexagynian | 24 | - | - |
| hexagynous | 24 | - | - |
| hexahedral | 24 | - | - |
| heterotaxy | 23 | any abnormal position of the organs of the body | - |
| hexahedron | 24 | any polyhedron having six plane faces | - |
| hydrotaxes | 24 | - | - |
| hydrotaxis | 24 | - | - |
| homotaxial | 22 | - | - |
| horsepoxes | 22 | - | - |
| horseboxes | 22 | - | - |
| immixtures | 21 | - | - |
| hypertexts | 25 | - | - |
| hydroxides | 25 | - | - |
| hydroxylic | 29 | - | - |
| hypoxaemia | 27 | - | - |
| hypoxaemic | 29 | - | - |
| hypoxemias | 27 | - | - |
| indexation | 18 | a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation | - |
| indexicals | 20 | - | - |
| implexions | 21 | - | - |
| implexuous | 21 | - | - |
| inexpertly | 22 | in a crude and unskilled manner | an inexpertly constructed lean-to |
| inexpiable | 21 | incapable of being atoned for | - |
| inexpiably | 24 | - | - |
| inexplicit | 21 | implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | - |
| inextended | 19 | - | - |
| inexistant | 17 | - | - |
| influxions | 20 | - | - |
| infixation | 20 | - | - |
| inflexibly | 25 | in an inflexible manner | `You will--because you must!,' Madam told her inflexibly |
| inflexions | 20 | - | - |
| inflexures | 20 | - | - |
| intertexts | 17 | - | - |
| intersexes | 17 | - | - |
| intermixed | 20 | - | - |
| intermixes | 19 | - | - |
| janitrixes | 24 | - | - |
| kickboxers | 29 | - | - |
| kickboxing | 30 | - | - |
| juxtaposes | 26 | - | - |
| lixiviated | 21 | - | - |
| lixiviates | 20 | - | - |
| lexicalise | 19 | make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | - |
| lexicality | 22 | - | - |
| lexicalize | 28 | make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | The concept expressed by German `Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English |
| lexicology | 23 | the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language | - |
| lexigraphy | 26 | - | - |
| genitrixes | 18 | - | - |
| genetrixes | 18 | - | - |
| geotextile | 18 | - | - |
| glyoxaline | 21 | an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | - |
| toxoplasma | 21 | - | - |
| toxalbumin | 21 | - | - |
| toxaphenes | 22 | - | - |
| toxication | 19 | - | - |
| toxicities | 19 | - | - |
| toxiphobia | 24 | - | - |
| transfixes | 20 | - | - |
| transaxles | 17 | - | - |
| toadflaxes | 21 | - | - |
| trihydroxy | 27 | containing three hydroxyl groups | - |
| trioxygens | 21 | - | - |
| taxability | 22 | liability to taxation | - |
| taraxacums | 21 | - | - |
| telefaxing | 21 | - | - |
| taxameters | 19 | - | - |
| taxpayings | 23 | - | - |
| taxational | 17 | - | - |
| taxidermal | 20 | - | - |
| taxidermic | 22 | - | - |
| taximeters | 19 | - | - |
| taxiplanes | 19 | - | - |
| taxonomers | 19 | - | - |
| taxonomies | 19 | - | - |
| taxonomist | 19 | a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | - |
| thixotrope | 22 | - | - |
| thixotropy | 25 | - | - |
| thyroxines | 23 | - | - |
| textphones | 22 | - | - |
| textualism | 19 | - | - |
| textualist | 17 | - | - |
| textuaries | 17 | - | - |
| texturally | 20 | - | - |
| texturised | 18 | - | - |
| texturises | 17 | - | - |
| texturized | 27 | - | - |
| tetrotoxin | 17 | - | - |
| tetroxides | 18 | - | - |
| texturizes | 26 | - | - |
| uniaxially | 20 | - | - |
| undertaxed | 19 | - | - |
| undertaxes | 18 | - | - |
| unfixities | 20 | - | - |
| unexacting | 20 | not rigorous | relaxed and unexacting standards |
| unexampled | 22 | having no previous example or precedent or parallel | a time of unexampled prosperity |
| unexcelled | 20 | not capable of being improved on | - |
| unextended | 19 | not extended or stretched out | an unextended arm |
| unexcluded | 21 | - | - |
| unexecuted | 20 | - | - |
| unexpanded | 21 | - | - |
| unexpended | 21 | (of financial resources) not spent | unexpended funds |
| unexpiated | 20 | - | - |
| unoxidised | 19 | - | - |
| unoxidized | 28 | - | - |
| uxoricidal | 20 | - | - |
| uxoricides | 20 | - | - |
| uxorilocal | 19 | - | - |
| uxoriously | 20 | in a loving and uxorious manner | he kept deferring uxoriously to Mary |
| vexingness | 21 | - | - |
| videotexts | 21 | - | - |
| videotexes | 21 | - | - |
| watchboxes | 27 | - | - |
| vixenishly | 26 | - | - |
| woadwaxens | 24 | - | - |
| waterpoxes | 22 | - | - |
| waxberries | 22 | - | - |
| waxflowers | 26 | - | - |
| waxinesses | 20 | - | - |
| waxworkers | 27 | - | - |
| tropotaxes | 19 | - | - |
| tropotaxis | 19 | - | - |
| zanthoxyls | 32 | - | - |
| zelatrixes | 26 | - | - |
| woodwaxens | 24 | - | - |
| phenoxides | 23 | - | - |
| philoxenia | 22 | - | - |
| phoenixism | 24 | - | - |
| perplexers | 21 | - | - |
| peroxisome | 21 | - | - |
| peroxidase | 20 | any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide | - |
| peroxiding | 21 | - | - |
| peroxidise | 20 | - | - |
| peroxidize | 29 | - | - |
| pixinesses | 19 | - | - |
| pixillated | 20 | - | - |
| pixelation | 19 | - | - |
| pixellated | 20 | - | - |
| pixilation | 19 | - | - |
| plaintexts | 19 | - | - |
| phytotoxic | 27 | - | - |
| phytotoxin | 25 | any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin | - |
| phylloxera | 25 | type genus of the Phylloxeridae: plant lice | - |
| phototoxic | 24 | - | - |
| phototaxes | 22 | - | - |
| phototaxis | 22 | - | - |
| phylaxises | 25 | - | - |
| phyllotaxy | 28 | - | - |
| picrotoxin | 21 | - | - |
| polyaxonic | 24 | - | - |
| polyaxials | 22 | - | - |
| polymyxins | 27 | - | - |
| pleonexias | 19 | - | - |
| plexiglass | 20 | a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic | - |
| pleximeter | 21 | a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | - |
| pleximetry | 24 | tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | - |
| poxviruses | 22 | - | - |
| preaxially | 22 | - | - |
| praxeology | 23 | - | - |
| pomosexual | 21 | - | - |
| postfixing | 23 | - | - |
| postexilic | 21 | of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
| prelexical | 21 | - | - |
| premaxilla | 21 | - | - |
| pretexting | 20 | - | - |
| preexcited | 22 | - | - |
| preexcites | 21 | - | - |
| preexempts | 23 | - | - |
| preexisted | 20 | - | - |
| preexposed | 22 | - | - |
| prefixally | 25 | - | - |
| prefixions | 22 | - | - |
| prefixture | 22 | - | - |
| preexposes | 21 | - | - |
| prolixious | 19 | - | - |
| prolixness | 19 | boring verbosity | - |
| proximally | 24 | - | - |
| protoxides | 20 | - | - |
| protoxylem | 24 | - | - |
| quixotical | 28 | - | - |
| quixotisms | 28 | - | - |
| quixotries | 26 | - | - |
| quincunxes | 28 | - | - |
| radiotoxic | 20 | - | - |
| pyroxenite | 22 | - | - |
| pyroxenoid | 23 | - | - |
| pyroxyline | 25 | highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers | - |
| pyroxylins | 25 | - | - |
| quadplexes | 29 | - | - |
| pyridoxals | 23 | - | - |
| pyridoxine | 23 | a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch | - |
| pyridoxins | 23 | - | - |
| reaffixing | 24 | - | - |
| reannexing | 18 | - | - |
| reexplored | 20 | - | - |
| reexplores | 19 | - | - |
| reexported | 20 | - | - |
| reexposing | 20 | - | - |
| reexposure | 19 | - | - |
