8-Letter Words That End With: AXES

• (originally Ireland) To ruin or destroy.

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends

• the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

• the decisive moment in a novel or play

• the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

• the most severe stage of a disease

• arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

• end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

• the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen

• the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates

• part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs

• the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

• a systematic orderly arrangement

• studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

• a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal

• any shrub or small tree of the genus Styrax having fragrant bell-shaped flowers that hang below the dark green foliage

• an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade

• a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick

• fell with or as if with a poleax