7-letter words containing x, r, a
- hexamer — An oligomer having six subunits.
- hexarch — (of a plant) having six veins in the vascular tissue
- hoaxers — Plural form of hoaxer.
- hoaxter — Alternative spelling of hoaxer.
- hyraxes — Plural form of hyrax.
- kremvax — /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West.
- laxator — (anatomy) A muscle whose contraction loosens some part.
- malraux — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.
- margaux — a red wine produced in the region around the village of Margaux near Bordeaux
- martext — a preacher who makes many mistakes
- marxian — of or relating to Karl Marx or his theories.
- marxism — the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.
- marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
- narthex — an enclosed passage between the main entrance and the nave of a church.
- oratrix — a woman who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence.
- overlax — too lax
- overtax — to tax too heavily.
- oxheart — any large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry.
- oxymora — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
- paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.
- pre-tax — profits, etc.: before tax
- proxima — a flare star in the constellation Centaurus that is the nearest star to the sun. It is a red dwarf of very low magnitude. Distance: 4.3 light years
- pyrexia — fever.
- rama ix — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
- reaffix — to affix (something) again
- reannex — to annex (something) again
- relaxed — being free of or relieved from tension or anxiety: in a relaxed mood.
- relaxer — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- relaxin — a polypeptide hormone produced by the corpus luteum during pregnancy that causes the pelvic ligaments and cervix to relax during pregnancy and delivery.
- roubaix — a city in N France, NE of Lille.
- roxanne — a female given name.
- saxhorn — any of a family of brass instruments close to the cornets and tubas.
- seroxat — a drug that prolongs the action of serotonin in the brain; used to treat depression and social anxiety
- thaxter — Celia (Laighton) [leyt-n] /ˈleɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1835–94, U.S. poet.
- treewax — a wax secreted by a tree
- uxorial — of or relating to a wife; typical of or befitting a wife.
- waxwork — a figure, ornament, or other object made of wax, or especially the life-size effigy of a person.
- waxworm — a waxmoth larva
- wrexham — a town in N Wales, in Wrexham county borough: seat of the Roman Catholic bishopric of Wales (except the former Glamorganshire); formerly noted for coal-mining. Pop: 42 576 (2001)
- x-rated — (of a motion picture) having a rating of X; intended for adults only.
- xerafin — an old Bombay coin equivalent to 3⁄5 of a rupee
- xerarch — (of a sere) originating in a dry habitat.
- xerasia — a hair disease characterized by extreme dryness and brittleness