5-letter words containing x, a
- faxer — facsimile (def 2).
- faxes — Plural form of fax.
- flaxy — made of flax.
- galax — a plant, Galax urceolata, of the southeastern U.S., having rounded, evergreen leaves and spikes of small white flowers.
- geaux — (jocular) informal form of go.
- hapax — (informal) abbreviation of hapax legomenon.
- haxor — (leet) alternative spelling of hacker.
- hexa- — six
- hexad — the number six.
- hoxha — Enver [en-vuh r] /ˈɛn vər/ (Show IPA), 1908–85, Albanian political leader: premier 1944–54, First Secretary of the Central Committee 1954–1985.
- hyrax — any of several species of small mammals of the order Hyracoidea, of Africa and the Mediterranean region, having short legs, ears, and tail, and hooflike nails on the toes.
- ixnay — Used in rejecting something specified.
- ixora — any of numerous tropical shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ixora, of the madder family, having glossy leaves and clusters of showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- juxta — In males of most species of order Lepidoptera, an organ that supports the aedeagus and is located between the two valvae.
- latex — a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.
- laxed — (phonetics) Of a vowel: made lax.
- laxer — Comparative form of lax.
- laxly — not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline.
- lexan — a polycarbonate resin, used in molded products, as a substitute for glass, etc.
- limax — a slug
- lomax — John Avery, 1867–1948, and his son, Alan, born 1915, U.S. folklorists.
- malax — to soften
- maxed — Reach or cause to reach the limit of capacity or ability.
- maxer — maximum.
- maxes — a male given name, form of Maximilian.
- maxi- — maximum, very large, very long
- maxim — Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
- maxis — Plural form of maxi.
- mcvax — mcvax.cwi.nl used to be the international backbone node of EUnet, the European Unix network. It was located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and belonged to "Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science) which is an institute belonging to a foundation called "Mathematisch Centrum". Since the first mcvax was on of the first VAXen in Europe and one of it's first uucp connections was to a machine called decvax it was quickly christened mcvax. Some also say this was done to give Jim McKie a nice mail address: mcvax!mckie. But this is certainly not true at all. The function of EUnet international backbone moved to another VAX later but the name moved with it, because in those days of mainly uucp based mail and before widespread use of pathalias it was simply not feasible to rename the machine to "europa" as was suggested at one stage. Mcsun (or relay.eu.net or net.eu.relay in some parts of Europe) replaced the international backbone host of EUnet around 1990. This machine was donated by Sun Microsystems owned by the European Unix Systems User Group (EUUG). It was located about 5m from where mcvax used to be and operated by the same people. Mcvax has finally ceased to exist in the domain and uucp namespaces. It still exists in the EARN/BITNET namespace.
- mixal — MIX Assembly Language. The assembly language for Donald Knuth's hypothetical MIX machine.
- moxas — a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
- naxos — a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
- noxal — (in law, esp Roman law) of or relating to damage done by a person (usually a slave) or animal belonging to or in the charge of another
- oxfam — Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
- panax — any perennial herb of the genus Panax
- paxes — the Roman goddess of peace.
- paxos — one of the Ionian Islands, off the NW coast of Greece. 7 sq. mi. (18 sq. km).
- radix — Mathematics. a number taken as the base of a system of numbers, logarithms, or the like.
- raxed — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- raxes — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- relax — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- retax — a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
- rewax — to wax again
- roxas — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1892–1948, Philippine statesman: 1st president of the Philippines 1946–48.
- salix — a plant or tree of the willow family
- saxes — a short, single-edged sword of ancient Scandinavia.
- saxon — a member of a Germanic people in ancient times dwelling near the mouth of the Elbe, a portion of whom invaded and occupied parts of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
- taxco — a city in Guerrero state, S Mexico: silver mining.
- taxed — a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
- taxes — a plural of taxi.