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7-letter words containing e, x, o

  • oxidane — water; H 2 O.
  • oxidase — any of a class of oxidoreductases that catalyze the oxidation of a substrate by molecular oxygen with the formation, in most cases, of hydrogen peroxide.
  • oxidate — Geochemistry. any of the class of sediments consisting chiefly of oxides of iron or manganese.
  • oxidise — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
  • oxidize — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
  • oxysome — a group of molecules
  • oxytone — having an acute accent on the last syllable.
  • peg box — the head of a stringed instrument, with several pegs that can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them
  • peroxy- — indicating the presence of the peroxide group, -O–O-
  • phenoxy — containing the monovalent radical C6H5O, derived from phenol
  • phoenix — a state in SW United States. 113,909 sq. mi. (295,025 sq. km). Capital: Phoenix. Abbreviation: AZ (for use with zip code), Ariz.
  • poleaxe — a former naval weapon with an axe blade on one side of the handle and a spike on the other
  • pre\box — (computer)   Phase 5's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card, as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram. It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software. Other features include EIDE, Ultra Wide SCSI-II, PCI, Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower. Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
  • quixote — Don, Don Quixote.
  • red box — (in Britain) a box, typically covered in red leather, used to transport the official documents of a government minister
  • red fox — a fox, Vulpes vulpes, usually having orangish-red to reddish-brown fur.
  • rexroth — Kenneth, 1905–82, U.S. poet, critic, and translator.
  • rolodex — a small file for holding names, addresses, and telephone numbers, consisting of cards attached horizontally to a rotatable central cylinder
  • roxanne — a female given name.
  • sea fox — thresher (def 2).
  • seedbox — the part of a plant that contains seeds
  • seroxat — a drug that prolongs the action of serotonin in the brain; used to treat depression and social anxiety
  • sex god — if you refer to a man, especially a film star, as a sex god, you mean that many people consider him to be sexually attractive
  • sex toy — device or aid for sexual stimulation
  • sexfoil — a round ornament consisting of six lobes divided by cusps.
  • shoebox — an oblong cardboard box of a standard size used to package a pair of shoes for sale.
  • texinfo — A GNU documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output. You can read the on-line information, known as an "Info file", with an Info documentation-reading program. By convention, Texinfo source file names end with a ".texi" or ".texinfo" extension. You can write and format Texinfo files into Info files within GNU Emacs, and read them using the Emacs Info reader. If you do not have Emacs, you can format Texinfo files into Info files using "makeinfo" and read them using "info". TeX is used to typeset Texinfo files for printing. Texinfo is available from your nearest GNU archive site.
  • the box — television
  • theroux — Paul (Edward). born 1941, US novelist and travel writer. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), The Mosquito Coast (1981), and My Other Life (1996); travel writings include The Great Railway Bazaar (1975)
  • toe box — a piece of stiffened material, as leather, placed between the lining and the toecap of a shoe.
  • toxemia — blood poisoning resulting from the presence of toxins, as bacterial toxins, in the blood.
  • toxemic — pertaining to or of the nature of toxemia.
  • werefox — (mythology) A person who transforms into a fox or foxlike form.
  • wexford — a county in Leinster province, in the SE Republic of Ireland. 908 sq. mi. (2350 sq. km).
  • xenopus — an African clawed frog of the genus Xenopus having no tongue
  • xerosis — abnormal dryness, as of the eye or skin.
  • xerotes — (pathology) A general dryness of the body.
  • xerotic — abnormal dryness, as of the eye or skin.
  • xeroxed — Simple past tense and past participle of xerox.
  • xeroxes — (sometimes lowercase) a copy made on a xerographic copying machine.
  • xremote — A serial line protocol for the X Window System.
  • xylenol — (organic chemistry) An arene compound with two methyl groups and a hydroxyl group.
  • xylogen — Nascent wood; wood cells in a forming state.
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