Phrase Hound found 47 phrases and 55 compound words that contain axes. The most common are listed below. Open axes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 47
- axes of evilplural of axis of evil: A group of states accused by George W. Bush of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
- axes of rotationplural of axis of rotation: The axis about which any body rotates.
- axes of symmetryplural of axis of symmetry: Any of one or more lines about which a geometric figure is symmetric
- battle-axesplural of battle-ax
- coordinate axesplural of coordinate axis: One of the lines in the coordinate system that represents one of the dimensions.
- hand axesplural of hand ax: A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.
- ice axesplural of ice axe: An axe used by mountaineers to cut footholds in the ice.
- pick-axesplural of pick-axe: A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
- radical axesplural of radical axis: The line containing the locus of points from which the segments respectively tangent to two given circles have equal length.
- throwing axesplural of throwing ax: An axe that is used as a missile weapon.
- visual axesplural of visual axis: The optical axis of an eye (extending from the viewed object through the centre of the pupil to the yellow spot of the retina)
- dagger-axesplural of dagger-axe: An ancient Chinese pole weapon, in use until the Han dynasty, consisting of a dagger-shaped blade mounted by its tang perpendicular to the pole's shaft.
- semi-major axesplural of semi-major axis: Half of the major axis of a circle or ellipse.
- Lochaber axesplural of Lochaber axe: A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scottish Highlanders.
- semimajor axesplural of semimajor axis: Half of the major axis of a circle or ellipse.
- boarding axesplural of boarding axe: An axe with a spike opposite the cutting edge, used for smashing locks, cutting ropes, etc. during naval warfare.
- break-axesplural of break-axe: A South American hardwood, Sloanea jamaicensis
- crash axesplural of crash axe: A lightweight fire axe carried in the cockpit of medium and large passenger aircraft and used to cut an escape route through aircraft wreckage after a crash, or to gain access to a hidden fire during flight.
- Dane axesplural of Dane axe: An early battle axe, primarily used during the transition between the European Viking Age and early Middle Ages.
- Danish axesplural of Danish axe: Dane axe
- figure axesplural of figure axis: The symmetrical axis of a body. In the case of the Earth, it differs from the rotational axis by a few meters, and so is a partial cause of the Earth's wobble.
- fire axesplural of fire axe: A special type of axe used by firefighters, typically featuring a pick-shaped pointed poll (area of the head opposite the cutting edge) and in a vivid color to make it easily visible during an emergency.
- imaginary axesplural of imaginary axis: The vertical line in the complex plane, every point on which corresponds to a complex number having zero real component.
- major axesplural of major axis: The longest diameter of an ellipse, running through the center and foci, with its ends being the widest points of the shape.
- meat axesplural of meat ax: A cleaver used for chopping meat.
Compound words 55
- relaxesthird-person singular simple present indicative of relax: To make something loose.
- addaxesplural of addax: A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert.
- audaxesplural of audax: A non-competitive long-distance (often over 200 km) cycling event.
- axestoneAlternative form of axstone: A variety of jade, used by the natives of the South Sea Islands for making axes or hatchets.
- babaxesplural of babax: Any of four species of passerine birds within the genus Pterorhinus in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.
- battleaxesplural of battleaxe
- bombaxesplural of bombax: Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.
- boraxesplural of borax: A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
- broadaxesplural of broadaxe: A large axe, with a broad blade, once used as a weapon and also used for hewing timber.
- carfaxesplural of carfax: A junction of four roads.