6-letter words containing x, u
- a deux — of or for two persons
- adieux — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- afflux — a flowing towards a point
- auspex — in ancient Rome, an augur, or diviner, esp. one who watched for omens in the flight of birds
- auxins — Plural form of auxin.
- baveux — a meanspirited know-it-all.
- bayeux — a town in NW France, on the River Aure: its museum houses the Bayeux tapestry and there is a 13th-century cathedral: dairy foods, plastic. Pop: 13 478 (2008)
- bijoux — a jewel.
- box up — to keep in; surround or confine
- boxful — the contents of a box or the amount a box can contain
- brieux — Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, French playwright, journalist, and editor.
- buglix — /buhg'liks/ Pejorative term referring to DEC's ULTRIX operating system in its earlier *severely* buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom. Compare AIDX, HP-SUX, Nominal Semidestructor, Telerat, sun-stools.
- buxton — a town in N England, in NW Derbyshire in the Peak District: thermal springs. Pop: 20 836 (2001)
- caudex — the thickened persistent stem base of some herbaceous perennial plants
- chu xi — 1130–1200, Chinese philosopher, known for his neo-Confucian commentaries, the Ssu shu or Four Books
- cruxes — Plural form of crux.
- cunaxa — the site near the lower Euphrates where Artaxerxes II defeated Cyrus the Younger in 401 bc
- deluxe — Deluxe goods or services are better in quality and more expensive than ordinary ones.
- duplex — duplex apartment.
- efflux — outward flow, as of water.
- eutaxy — a state of good order
- Évreux — an industrial town in NW France: severely damaged in World War II; cathedral (12th–16th centuries). Pop: 50 772 (2008)
- exacum — any plant of the annual or perennial tropical genus Exacum; some are grown as greenhouse biennials for their bluish-purple platter-shaped flowers: family Gentianaceae
- excuse — Attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offense); seek to defend or justify.
- excuss — To shake off.
- exequy — (obsolete, now only in plural) funeral rites.
- exeunt — A stage direction for more than one actor to leave the stage.
- exhume — Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.
- exodus — A mass departure of people, esp. emigrants.
- expugn — (obsolete) To take by storm; capture. (15th-17th c.).
- exuded — Simple past tense and past participle of exude.
- exudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exude.
- exults — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exult.
- exurbs — Plural form of exurb.
- exuvia — cast-off exoskeleton of animal
- fix up — Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
- fix-up — repair; improvement: fix-ups that will make the house more salable.
- fixure — (obsolete) Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.
- flexus — (astronomy, geology) A low, curvilinear ridge with a scalloped pattern.
- fluxed — Simple past tense and past participle of flux.
- fluxes — a flowing or flow.
- frutex — a plant or shrub with a woody stem
- guanxi — (in China) the system of social networks and influential relationships that facilitate business and other dealings.
- hallux — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- hp-sux — (abuse, operating system) /H-P suhks/ An unflattering hackerism for HP-UX which features some truly unique bogosities in the file system internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often referred to as "hockey-pux" inside HP, and one respondent claims that the proper pronunciation is /H-P ukkkhhhh/ as though one were about to spit. Another such alternate spelling and pronunciation is "H-PUX" /H-puhks/. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym. Compare AIDX, buglix, Telerat, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools.
- huxley — Aldous (Leonard) [awl-duh s] /ˈɔl dəs/ (Show IPA), 1894–1963, English novelist, essayist, and critic.
- influx — act of flowing in.
- juxta- — near, beside, close by
- koufax — Sanford ("Sandy") born 1935, U.S. baseball player.
- ledoux — Claude-Nicolas [klohd-nee-kaw-lah] /kloʊd ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French architect.
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