7-letter words containing x, e
- boxlike — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- boxties — Irish potato cakes
- bureaux — Bureaux is a plural form of bureau.
- cachexy — (medicine, archaic) Cachexia.
- calyxes — Botany. the outermost group of floral parts; the sepals.
- casebox — a device, similar to an abacus, for recording the cards as they are drawn from the dealing box.
- casemix — the varied types of patients treated by a hospital or medical unit
- celotex — a type of thermal insulation board
- centrex — a telephone system for businesses, large organizations, etc. in which outside calls can be made directly to, or from, any extension
- chemsex — sexual activity performed while under the influence of psychoactive drugs
- ciseaux — a jump in which the dancer's legs are opened wide in the air and closed on landing.
- coannex — to annex with something else
- coexert — to exert together
- coexist — If one thing coexists with another, they exist together at the same time or in the same place. You can also say that two things coexist.
- complex — Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
- context — The context of an idea or event is the general situation that relates to it, and which helps it to be understood.
- coxless — (rowing) Not having a cox.
- craptex — /krap'tekh/ (University of York, England) Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else). The non-TeX enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e.g. troff) and because (particularly if the standard Computer Modern fonts are used) it generates vast output files. See religious issues.
- de luxe — (esp of products, articles for sale, etc) rich, elegant, or sumptuous; superior in quality, number of accessories, etc
- deindex — to cause to become no longer index-linked
- delvaux — Paul. 1897–1994, Belgian surrealist painter: his works portray dreamlike figures in mysterious settings
- desexed — Simple past tense and past participle of desex.
- desexes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desex.
- detoxed — Simple past tense and past participle of detox.
- detoxes — Plural form of detox.
- dextral — of, relating to, or located on the right side, esp of the body; right-hand
- dextran — a polysaccharide produced by the action of bacteria on sucrose: used as a substitute for plasma in blood transfusions
- dextrin — any of a group of sticky substances that are intermediate products in the conversion of starch to maltose: used as thickening agents in foods and as gums
- dextro- — on or towards the right
- dioxane — a colorless, flammable, liquid cyclic ether, C 4 H 8 O 2 , having a faint, pleasant odor: used chiefly in the varnish and silk industries and as a dehydrator in histology.
- dioxide — an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen, each of which is bonded directly to an atom of a second element, as manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , or nitrogen dioxide, NO 2 .
- directx — (programming, hardware) A Microsoft programming interface standard, first included with Windows 95. DirectX gives (games) programmers a standard way to gain direct access to enhanced hardware features under Windows 95 instead of going via the Windows 95 GDI. Some DirectX code runs faster than the equivalent under MS DOS. DirectX promises performance improvements for graphics, sound, video, 3D, and network capabilites of games, but only where both hardware and software support DirectX. DirectX 2 introduced the Direct3D interface. Version 5 was current at 1998-02-01. Version 8.1 is included in Windows XP.
- doxepin — a tricyclic antidepressant, C 19 H 21 NO, used primarily to treat depression or anxiety.
- dupleix — Joseph François [zhoh-zef frahn-swa] /ʒoʊˈzɛf frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Marquis, 1697–1763, French colonial governor of India 1724–54.
- dx code — a code on a film cassette that automatically adjusts the film-speed setting on a suitably equipped camera to the correct ISO rating
- eco-tax — a tax levied on services, products, etc that adversely affect the environment
- editrix — A female editor.
- elixirs — Plural form of elixir.
- entirex — (operating system) The German company Software AG's implementation of DCOM under Unix and on IBM mainframes, released at the end of 1997. EntireX enables users to exchange their DCOM components between Windows 95, Windows NT, Unix and OS/390 and to build application programs with components running on any of those platforms.
- epaxial — situated above the axis of the skeleton
- epitaxy — The natural or artificial growth of crystals on a crystalline substrate determining their orientation.
- epoxide — An organic compound whose molecule contains a three-membered ring involving an oxygen atom and two carbon atoms.
- epoxied — Simple past tense and past participle of epoxy.
- epoxies — Plural form of epoxy.
- equinox — The time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20).
- ethoxyl — a univalent radical
- eurotax — a tax imposed by the European Union
- eutaxia — the condition of being easily melted
- ex ante — based on what is expected to happen
- ex div. — ex dividend