Words Containing: P,Y,X,E

• A small box

• A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds; a pyxidium

• A nautical compass

• The box in which ashes are stored for Ash Wednesday

• Acetabulum

• a borosilicate glass with a low coefficient of expansion; used for heat-resistant glassware in cooking and chemistry

• nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes

• a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection

• growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate

• a coming to an end of a contract period

• the event of dying or departure from life

• creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas