6-letter words containing x
- biflex — bent or flexed in two places
- bijoux — a jewel.
- biloxi — a member of a North American Indian people that lived in the lower Mississippi Valley
- binhex — (file format) A Macintosh format for representing a binary file using only printable characters. The file is converted to lines of letters, numbers and punctuation. Because BinHex files are simply text they can be sent through most electronic mail systems and stored on most computers. However the conversion to text makes the file larger, so it takes longer to transmit a file in BinHex format than if the file was represented some other way. See also BinHex 4.0, uuencode.
- blixen — Karen
- bollix — to make a muddle of; bungle; botch
- bollox — to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
- bombax — a genus of trees (family Malvaceae), the most well-known species of which is the cotton tree
- bombyx — a Chinese silkworm moth
- bonxie — (originally in Shetland) the great skua
- box in — If you are boxed in, you are unable to move from a particular place because you are surrounded by other people or cars.
- box up — to keep in; surround or confine
- boxboy — a clerk who packs groceries into cartons, especially at a supermarket, as for delivery or carrying out to a customer's car.
- boxcar — A boxcar is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
- boxful — the contents of a box or the amount a box can contain
- boxily — in a boxy manner
- boxing — Boxing is a sport in which two people wearing large padded gloves fight according to special rules.
- brexit — the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
- 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)
- c-axis — the vertical crystallographic axis.
- carfax — a place where principal roads or streets intersect, esp a place in a town where four roads meet
- carnyx — a bronze Celtic war trumpet
- caudex — the thickened persistent stem base of some herbaceous perennial plants
- caxias — a city in NE Brazil.
- caxton — a book printed by William Caxton
- ceefax — the BBC teletext service, switched off in October 2012
- cerlox — a type of plastic binding used in strips to curl through the perforations in separate sheets of paper to bind them together
- cervix — The cervix is the entrance to the womb.
- chenix — an ancient measure, equivalent to slightly more than a quart
- chu xi — 1130–1200, Chinese philosopher, known for his neo-Confucian commentaries, the Ssu shu or Four Books
- claxon — a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles, trucks, etc., and now often used as a warning signal.
- climax — The climax of something is the most exciting or important moment in it, usually near the end.
- coaxed — to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole: He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- coaxer — A person who coaxes.
- coaxes — to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole: He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- coaxis — (math).
- coccyx — The coccyx is the small triangular bone at the lower end of the spine in human beings and some apes.
- colfax — Schuyler, 1823–85, U.S. political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1869–73.
- comdex — (business) A computer show that is held twice yearly, once in the spring (in Atlanta) and once in autumn (in Las Vegas). Comdex is a major show during which new releases of software and hardware are made. Microsoft, for example, often annouces its products at Comdex.
- commix — to mix together; blend
- confix — to fasten
- connex — a large metal cargo container used by the U.S. Army for shipping supplies, as to overseas bases.
- contex — (obsolete, transitive) To context.
- convex — Convex is used to describe something that curves outwards in the middle.
- cortex — The cortex of the brain or of another organ is its outer layer.
- cotext — (linguistics) The text that surrounds the node, or word of interest, in a KWIC.
- cowpox — a contagious viral disease of cows characterized by vesicles on the skin, esp on the teats and udder. Inoculation of humans with this virus provides temporary immunity to smallpox. It can be transmitted to other species, esp cats
- coxing — coxswain.