7-letter words containing x
- oxysome — a group of molecules
- oxytone — having an acute accent on the last syllable.
- packwax — a neck ligament
- panchax — any of a variety of colorful tropical Old World fishes of the genus Aplocheilus and related genera: popular in home aquariums.
- paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- paxiuba — a tropical South American palm tree, Iriartea exorrhiza
- peg box — the head of a stringed instrument, with several pegs that can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them
- peroxy- — indicating the presence of the peroxide group, -O–O-
- perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- perspex — acrylic material: artificial glass
- phalanx — (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
- pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.
- phenoxy — containing the monovalent radical C6H5O, derived from phenol
- phoenix — a state in SW United States. 113,909 sq. mi. (295,025 sq. km). Capital: Phoenix. Abbreviation: AZ (for use with zip code), Ariz.
- phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
- pickaxe — a pick, especially a mattock.
- pillbox — a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills.
- pinxter — Whitsuntide.
- pius ix — (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) 1792–1878, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1846–78.
- pius xi — (Achille Ratti) 1857–1939, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1922–39.
- planxty — a lively Celtic melody, chiefly for the harp
- plexure — the act of weaving together or something which has been interwoven
- poleaxe — a former naval weapon with an axe blade on one side of the handle and a spike on the other
- poorbox — a box, esp one in a church, used for the collection of alms or money for the poor
- postbox — a mailbox, especially one for public deposit of mail.
- postfix — to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.
- posttax — existing or remaining after tax is deducted
- pre-tax — profits, etc.: before tax
- pretext — something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse: The leaders used the insults as a pretext to declare war.
- pre\box — (computer) Phase 5's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card, as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram. It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software. Other features include EIDE, Ultra Wide SCSI-II, PCI, Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower. Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
- princox — a self-confident young fellow; coxcomb.
- 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
- proximo — in, of, or during the next month: on the 10th proximo. Compare instant (def 11), ultimo.
- pyrexia — fever.
- pyxides — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a box of a usually cylindrical shape having a lid with a knob in the center, used for toilet articles.
- quixote — Don, Don Quixote.
- rama ix — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
- reaffix — to affix (something) again
- reannex — to annex (something) again
- rectrix — one of the tail feathers of a bird controlling direction during flight.
- red box — (in Britain) a box, typically covered in red leather, used to transport the official documents of a government minister
- red fox — a fox, Vulpes vulpes, usually having orangish-red to reddish-brown fur.
- reindex — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- 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.
- rexburg — a town in E Idaho.
- rexroth — Kenneth, 1905–82, U.S. poet, critic, and translator.
- rolodex — a small file for holding names, addresses, and telephone numbers, consisting of cards attached horizontally to a rotatable central cylinder
- roubaix — a city in N France, NE of Lille.