6-letter words containing x, e, o
- mexico — a city in and the capital of Mexico, in the central part. About 7400 feet (2255 meters) above sea level.
- nexion — (occultism) A kind of occult gate or portal.
- orexin — (biochemistry) Either of two neuropeptide hormones found in vertebrates; the hypocretins.
- orexis — the affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act.
- oxhead — the head of an ox
- oxhide — leather made from the hide of an ox
- oxlike — the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
- oxygen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state in nature. It is the supporter of combustion in air and was the standard of atomic, combining, and molecular weights until 1961, when carbon 12 became the new standard. Symbol: O; atomic weight: 15.9994; atomic number: 8; density: 1.4290 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- oxymel — a medicinal syrupy mixture of vinegar, honey and water
- pegbox — the widened end of the neck of a stringed instrument, to which the tuning pegs are fixed.
- peroxy — containing the peroxy group.
- plexor — Medicine/Medical. a small hammer with a soft rubber head or the like, used in percussion for diagnostic purposes.
- poleax — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- pollex — the innermost digit of the forelimb; thumb.
- scolex — the anterior, headlike segment of a tapeworm, having suckers, hooks, or the like, for attachment.
- sexpot — a sexually attractive person.
- sexton — Anne (Harvey) 1928–74, U.S. poet.
- teabox — a box for storing tea
- torpex — (sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
- tuxedo — Also called dinner jacket. a man's jacket for semiformal evening dress, traditionally of black or dark-blue color and characteristically having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels.
- vortex — a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
- xeroma — (medicine) Dryness of the eye.
- xmodem — (communications) Ward Christensen's file transfer protocol, probably the most widely available protocol used for file transfer over serial lines (e.g. between modems). XMODEM uses 128-byte packets with error detection, allowing the receiver to request retransmission of a corrupted packet. XModem is fairly slow but reliable. Several variations have been proposed with increasing packet sizes (e.g. XMODEM-1K) and different error detection (CRC instead of checksum) to take advantage of faster modems. Sending and receiving programs can negotiate to establish the best protocol they both support. John Mahr wrote the original XMODEM CRC error correction code. This implementation was backward compatible with Christensen's original checksum code. It improved the error detection from 98% to 99.97% and improved the reliability of transmitting binary files. Standard XMODEM specifies a one-second timeout during the reception of characters in the data block portion of a packet. Chuck Forsberg improved upon XMODEM by developing YMODEM and ZMODEM.
- xylose — A sugar of the pentose class that occurs widely in plants, especially as a component of hemicelluloses.