4-letter words containing x
- 650x — (hardware) A family of microprocessors from MOS Technologies, based on the design of the Motorola 6800 (introduced around 1975). The family included the 6502 used in several early personal computers.
- 6x86 — Cyrix 6x86
- 8x86 — Intel 80x86
- aidx — (abuse, operating system) /aydkz/ A derogatory term for IBM's perverted version of Unix, AIX, especially for the AIX 3.? used in the IBM RS/6000 series (some hackers think it is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches"). A victim of the dreaded "hybridism" disease, this attempt to combine the two main currents of the Unix stream (BSD and USG Unix) became a monstrosity to haunt system administrators' dreams. For example, if new accounts are created while many users are logged on, the load average jumps quickly over 20 due to silly implementation of the user databases. For a quite similar disease, compare HP-SUX. Also, compare Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools.
- ajax — the son of Telamon; a Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed himself in vexation when Achilles' armour was given to Odysseus
- alex — a male given name, form of Alexander.
- amex — American Express
- anax — one of the Gigantes and father of Asterius.
- apex — An Apex or an Apex ticket is a ticket for a journey by air or rail which costs less than the standard ticket, but which you have to book a specified period in advance.
- auxo — one of the Graces worshiped at Athens.
- axal — Archaic form of axial.
- axed — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
- axel — a jump in which the skater takes off from the forward outside edge of one skate, makes one and a half, two and a half, or three and a half turns in the air, and lands on the backward outside edge of the other skate
- axen — Lb UK dialectal Ashes.
- axes — Axes is the plural of axe.
- axil — the angle between the upper surface of a branch or leafstalk and the stem from which it grows
- axin — (medicine) A fatty and varnish-like substance produced in Mexico by an insect, Coccus axinus, used in the arts and locally in medicine, being regarded as a good vulnerary and resolvent.
- axis — An axis is an imaginary line through the middle of something.
- axle — An axle is a rod connecting a pair of wheels on a car or other vehicle.
- axon — the long threadlike extension of a nerve cell that conducts nerve impulses from the cell body
- axum — Aksum
- blox — A visual language.
- boxy — Something that is boxy is similar to a square in shape and usually plain.
- brux — to grind the teeth, esp unconsciously
- calx — the powdery metallic oxide formed when an ore or mineral is roasted
- ceyx — a king of Trachis in Thessaly and the husband of Alcyone. He died in a shipwreck and his wife drowned herself in grief
- chex — Often, checks. the game of checkers.
- clix — (language) ["Overview of a Parallel Object-Oriented Language CLIX", J. Hur et al, in ECOOP '87, LNCS 276, Springer 1987, pp. 265-273].
- coax — If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
- coxa — a technical name for the hipbone or hip joint
- coxy — cocky; impudent; arrogant
- crux — The crux of a problem or argument is the most important or difficult part of it which affects everything else.
- dbxl — A dBASE-like interpreter/language for MS-DOS from WordTech, Orinda, CA.
- dexy — Dexedrine.
- dixi — I have spoken
- dixy — dixie.
- dnix — (operating system) A flavor of Unix that is proprietary to Olivetti and Wang Global.
- doux — (of champagne) very sweet.
- doxy — opinion; doctrine.
- elix — To draw out or extract.
- exa- — prefix
- exam — A medical test of a specified kind.
- exc. — Excellency
- exch — (jargon) /eks'ch*/ or /eksch/ To exchange two things, each for the other; to swap places. If you point to two people sitting down and say "Exch!", you are asking them to trade places. EXCH, meaning EXCHange, was originally the name of a PDP-10 instruction that exchanged the contents of a register and a memory location. Many newer hackers are probably thinking instead of the PostScript exchange operator (which is usually written in lowercase).
- excl — exclamation mark
- exco — (informal) executive committee or council.
- excp — Execute Channel Program
- exec — An executive.
- exes — Plural form of ex.
- exit — A way out, especially of a public building, room, or passenger vehicle.
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