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5-letter words containing x

  • limax — a slug
  • linux — (operating system)   ("Linus Unix") /li'nuks/ (but see below) An implementation of the Unix kernel originally written from scratch with no proprietary code. The kernel runs on Intel and Alpha hardware in the general release, with SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, Amiga, Atari, and SGI in active development. The SPARC, PowerPC, ARM, PowerMAC - OSF, and 68k ports all support shells, X and networking. The Intel and SPARC versions have reliable symmetric multiprocessing. Work on the kernel is coordinated by Linus Torvalds, who holds the copyright on a large part of it. The rest of the copyright is held by a large number of other contributors (or their employers). Regardless of the copyright ownerships, the kernel as a whole is available under the GNU General Public License. The GNU project supports Linux as its kernel until the research Hurd kernel is completed. This kernel would be no use without application programs. The GNU project has provided large numbers of quality tools, and together with other public domain software it is a rich Unix environment. A compilation of the Linux kernel and these tools is known as a Linux distribution. Compatibility modules and/or emulators exist for dozens of other computing environments. The kernel version numbers are significant: the odd numbered series (e.g. 1.3.xx) is the development (or beta) kernel which evolves very quickly. Stable (or release) kernels have even major version numbers (e.g. 1.2.xx). There is a lot of commercial support for and use of Linux, both by hardware companies such as Digital, IBM, and Apple and numerous smaller network and integration specialists. There are many commercially supported distributions which are generally entirely under the GPL. At least one distribution vendor guarantees Posix compliance. Linux is particularly popular for Internet Service Providers, and there are ports to both parallel supercomputers and embedded microcontrollers. Debian is one popular open source distribution. The pronunciation of "Linux" has been a matter of much debate. Many, including Torvalds, insist on the short I pronunciation /li'nuks/ because "Linus" has an /ee/ sound in Swedish (Linus's family is part of Finland's 6% ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English short /i/ to be closer to /ee/ than English long /i:/ dipthong. This is consistent with the short I in words like "linen". This doesn't stop others demanding a long I /li:'nuks/ following the english pronunciation of "Linus" and "minus". Others say /li'niks/ following Minix, which Torvalds was working on before Linux.
  • lomax — John Avery, 1867–1948, and his son, Alan, born 1915, U.S. folklorists.
  • lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
  • luxor — a town in S (Upper) Egypt, on the Nile: ruins of ancient Thebes.
  • lynix — (spelling)   Misspelling of "Linux" (the Unix clone), or possibly "lynx" (the web browser).
  • lzexe — An executable file compression utility for MS-DOS. It adds a minimal header to the executable to decompress it when it is executed. See also pklite.
  • malax — to soften
  • maxed — Reach or cause to reach the limit of capacity or ability.
  • maxer — maximum.
  • maxes — a male given name, form of Maximilian.
  • maxi- — maximum, very large, very long
  • maxim — Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
  • maxis — Plural form of maxi.
  • mcvax — mcvax.cwi.nl used to be the international backbone node of EUnet, the European Unix network. It was located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and belonged to "Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science) which is an institute belonging to a foundation called "Mathematisch Centrum". Since the first mcvax was on of the first VAXen in Europe and one of it's first uucp connections was to a machine called decvax it was quickly christened mcvax. Some also say this was done to give Jim McKie a nice mail address: mcvax!mckie. But this is certainly not true at all. The function of EUnet international backbone moved to another VAX later but the name moved with it, because in those days of mainly uucp based mail and before widespread use of pathalias it was simply not feasible to rename the machine to "europa" as was suggested at one stage. Mcsun (or relay.eu.net or net.eu.relay in some parts of Europe) replaced the international backbone host of EUnet around 1990. This machine was donated by Sun Microsystems owned by the European Unix Systems User Group (EUUG). It was located about 5m from where mcvax used to be and operated by the same people. Mcvax has finally ceased to exist in the domain and uucp namespaces. It still exists in the EARN/BITNET namespace.
  • memex — (hypertext)   Vannevar Bush's original name for hypertext, which he invented in the 1930s.
  • mexsp — Mexican Spanish
  • middx — Middlesex
  • minix — (operating system)   /MIN-ix/ A small operating system that is very similar to UNIX. MINIX was written for educational purposes by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. MINIX has been written from scratch and contains no AT&T code -- neither in the kernel, the compiler, the utilities, nor the libraries. Although copyrighted by Prentice-Hall, all sources, binaries and documentation can be obtained via Internet for educational or research purposes. Current versions as of 1996-11-15: MINIX 2.0 - Intel CPUs from Intel 8088 to Pentium MINIX 1.5 - Intel, Macintosh (MacMinix), Amiga, Atari ST, Sun SPARC.
  • minxy — Characteristic of a minx (flirtatious young woman).
  • mirex — A synthetic insecticide of the organochlorine type used chiefly against ants.
  • mixal — MIX Assembly Language. The assembly language for Donald Knuth's hypothetical MIX machine.
  • mixed — put together or formed by mixing.
  • mixel — (geographical sciences) In field-based conceptualisation, a raster cell which indicates elements of mixed or multiple land cover categories.
  • mixen — a pile of dung
  • mixer — a person or thing that mixes.
  • mixes — Plural form of mix.
  • mixte — (mostly, attributive) A kind of bicycle frame where the top tube of the traditional diamond frame is replaced with a pair of smaller lateral tubes running from the top of the head tube all the way back to the rear axle, connecting at the seat tube on the way.
  • mixup — an act or instance of mixing.
  • moxas — a flammable substance or material obtained from the leaves of certain Chinese and Japanese wormwood plants, especially Artemisia moxa.
  • moxie — vigor; verve; pep.
  • murex — any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
  • mutex — (tool, music)   An extension of TeX for typesetting music.
  • muxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mux.
  • myxo- — mucus or slime
  • naxos — a Greek island in the S Aegean: the largest of the Cyclades group. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
  • net:x — (company)   A Canadian company. Not to be confused with NetX.
  • nexor — (company)   A technology company that specialises in providing electronic communication software products and services to a worldwide market. It is also the home of CUSI.
  • nexum — A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
  • nexus — a means of connection; tie; link.
  • nirex — Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive
  • nixed — nothing.
  • nixer — (Irish, slang) A job or income which is taken in addition to one's normal employment, generally at evenings or weekends. Originally implied that payment was not declared for taxation, but now refers to any work that is not part of one's regular job.
  • nixes — nothing.
  • nixie — a female water spirit.
  • nixon — Richard M(ilhous) [mil-hous] /ˈmɪl haʊs/ (Show IPA), 1913–94, 37th president of the U.S., 1969–74 (resigned).
  • nomex — a lightweight, fire-resistant, nylon fiber made into garments, aircraft upholstery, etc.
  • noxal — (in law, esp Roman law) of or relating to damage done by a person (usually a slave) or animal belonging to or in the charge of another
  • oxbow — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  • oxeye — any of several composite plants, especially of the genera Heliopsis and Buphthalum, having ray flowers surrounding a conspicuous disk.
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