6-letter words containing x, i, a
- oxtail — the skinned tail of an ox or steer, used as an ingredient in soup, stew, etc.
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- pickax — a pick, especially a mattock.
- pixmap — (Contraction of "pixel map"). A 3 dimensional array of bits corresponding to a 2 dimensional array of pixels. It is used, for example, in the X Window System to describe a memory region where graphics can be drawn without affecting the screen. Typically this is used for the efficient handling of expose events, icon images or for animation. Compare bitmap.
- praxis — practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- raxing — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- shanxi — a province in N China. 60,656 sq. mi. (157,099 sq. km). Capital: Taiyuan.
- sixain — a stanza or poem of six lines
- smilax — any plant belonging to the genus Smilax, of the lily family, growing in tropical and temperate zones, consisting mostly of vines having woody stems.
- spadix — an inflorescence consisting of a spike with a fleshy or thickened axis, usually enclosed in a spathe.
- taxied — a taxicab.
- taxies — a taxicab.
- taxila — an archaeological site near Rawalpindi, Pakistan: ruins of three successive cities on the same site, dating from about the 7th century b.c. to about the 7th century a.d.; Buddhist center.
- taxing — wearingly burdensome: the day-to-day, taxing duties of a supervisor.
- taxite — a volcanic rock with streaks of different colour or texture
- texian — a state in the S United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviation: Tex., TX (for use with zip code).
- waxier — Comparative form of waxy.
- waxily — In a waxy way.
- waxing — Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
- wuxian — former name of Suzhou (def 1).
- x-axis — Also called axis of abscissas. (in a plane Cartesian coordinate system) the axis, usually horizontal, along which the abscissa is measured and from which the ordinate is measured.
- xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- xenial — the influence or effect of pollen on a structure other than the embryo, as the seed or fruit.
- xiamen — an island near the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.
- xikang — a former province in W China, now part of Sichuan.
- xizang — Tibet
- y-axis — Also called axis of ordinates. (in a plane Cartesian coordinate system) the axis, usually vertical, along which the ordinate is measured and from which the abscissa is measured.
- z-axis — (in a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system) the axis along which values of z are measured and at which both x and y equal zero.