5-letter words containing x
- fuxin — a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- fx-87 — Effects. A polymorphic language based on Scheme, allowing side effects and first-class functions. It attempts to integrate functional and imperative programming. Expressions have types, side effects (e.g. reading, writing or allocating) and regions (stating where the effects may occur). Versions: FX-89, FX-90.
- fx-90 — (language) A language with partial type and effect reconstruction and first-class modules.
- galax — a plant, Galax urceolata, of the southeastern U.S., having rounded, evergreen leaves and spikes of small white flowers.
- geaux — (jocular) informal form of go.
- gen-x — An expert system developed by General Electric.
- gueux — a league of Dutch and Flemish patriots, composed chiefly of nobles and formed in 1566 to resist the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands.
- hapax — (informal) abbreviation of hapax legomenon.
- haxor — (leet) alternative spelling of hacker.
- helix — a spiral.
- hepix — A recently formed collaboration among various HEP institutes aiming at providing "compatible" versions of the Unix operating system at their sites.
- hexa- — six
- hexad — the number six.
- hexed — to bewitch; practice witchcraft on: He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
- hexer — hexagonal: a bolt with a matching washer and hex nut.
- hexes — Plural form of hex.
- hexit — (jargon) /hek'sit/ A hexadecimal digit (0-9, and A-F or a-f). Used by people who claim that there are only *ten* digits, sixteen-fingered human beings being rather rare, despite what some keyboard designs might seem to imply (see space-cadet keyboard).
- hexon — (biology, biochemistry) Any small biological structure that has hexagonal symmetry.
- hexyl — containing a hexyl group.
- hoxha — Enver [en-vuh r] /ˈɛn vər/ (Show IPA), 1908–85, Albanian political leader: premier 1944–54, First Secretary of the Central Committee 1954–1985.
- hoxie — Vinnie Ream [reem] /rim/ (Show IPA), 1847–1914, U.S. sculptor.
- hp-ux — (operating system) The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. HP-UX conforms to X/Open's Portability Guide Issue 4 (XPG4), Federal Information Processing Specification (FIPS) 151.1, POSIX 1003.1, POSIX 1003.2, AT&T's System V Interface Definition 2 (SVID 2). HP-UX incorporates selected features from the University of California at Berkeley Software Distribution 4.3 (4.3BSD). It is known by some as "HP-SUX".
- hyrax — any of several species of small mammals of the order Hyracoidea, of Africa and the Mediterranean region, having short legs, ears, and tail, and hooflike nails on the toes.
- idmsx — (database) IDMS extended.
- immix — to mix in; mingle.
- impex — (business,in company names) import and export.
- inbox — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
- index — (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.
- infix — to fix, fasten, or drive in: He infixed the fatal spear.
- inmix — Lb transitive to mix in; intermingle.
- ipxcp — (networking) Internetwork Packet eXchange Control Protocol.
- ispbx — Integrated Services Digital Network PBX.
- ixion — a king who was punished by Zeus for his love for Hera by being bound on an eternally revolving wheel in Tartarus.
- ixnay — Used in rejecting something specified.
- ixora — any of numerous tropical shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ixora, of the madder family, having glossy leaves and clusters of showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- ixtle — istle.
- jolix — 386BSD
- juxta — In males of most species of order Lepidoptera, an organ that supports the aedeagus and is located between the two valvae.
- kexes — the dry, usually hollow stem or stalk of various plants, especially of large plants belonging to the parsley family, as cow parsnip or wild chervil.
- kylix — a shallow bowl having two horizontal handles projecting from the sides, often set upon a stem terminating in a foot: used as a drinking cup.
- latex — a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.
- laxed — (phonetics) Of a vowel: made lax.
- laxer — Comparative form of lax.
- laxly — not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline.
- lenox — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- leo x — (Giovanni de'Medici) 1475–1521, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1513–21 (son of Lorenzo de'Medici).
- lexan — a polycarbonate resin, used in molded products, as a substitute for glass, etc.
- lexer — lexical analyser
- lexie — (literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.