6-letter words containing x
- hatbox — a case or box for a hat.
- haybox — A box stuffed with hay in which heated food was left to continue cooking.
- hexact — hexactinal
- hexade — A series of six numbers.
- hexane — any of five isomeric hydrocarbons having the formula C 6 H 14 , of the alkane series, some of which are obtained from petroleum: used as solvents and chemical intermediates and in fuels.
- hexing — Present participle of hex.
- hexone — any of various organic ketones containing six atoms of carbon in the molecule.
- hexose — any of a class of sugars containing six atoms of carbon, including glucose and fructose.
- hickox — Richard (Sidney). 1948–2008, British conductor; musical director of the City of London Sinfonia and Singers (1971–2008)
- hijinx — (humorous) Alternative form of hijinks.
- hitbox — (computer graphics) An invisible shape bounding all or part of a model (in a video game, etc.) in order to facilitate collision detection.
- hoaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of hoax.
- hoaxer — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- hoaxes — Plural form of hoax.
- hotbox — a journal box overheated by excessive friction of an axle as a result of inadequate lubrication or the presence of foreign matter.
- hp-sux — (abuse, operating system) /H-P suhks/ An unflattering hackerism for HP-UX which features some truly unique bogosities in the file system internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often referred to as "hockey-pux" inside HP, and one respondent claims that the proper pronunciation is /H-P ukkkhhhh/ as though one were about to spit. Another such alternate spelling and pronunciation is "H-PUX" /H-puhks/. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym. Compare AIDX, buglix, Telerat, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools.
- huxley — Aldous (Leonard) [awl-duh s] /ˈɔl dəs/ (Show IPA), 1894–1963, English novelist, essayist, and critic.
- ice ax — a mountaineering tool combining an adzlike blade and a pick on the head of a long wooden handle, with a spike on the end, used for cutting into ice and for support on icy surfaces.
- icebox — an insulated cabinet or chest with a partition for ice, used for preserving or cooling food, beverages, etc.
- imbrex — a convex tile, used especially in ancient Rome to cover joints in a tile roof.
- implex — the point where muscles are attached to the integument of an arthropod
- in-box — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
- inflex — To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
- influx — act of flowing in.
- intext — (archaic) The text of a book.
- isolex — an isogloss marking off the area in which a particular item of vocabulary is found
- ixodid — any of numerous ticks of the family Ixodidae, comprising the hard ticks.
- jawbox — a metal kitchen sink
- jinxed — Simple past tense and past participle of jinx.
- jinxes — Plural form of jinx.
- john x — died a.d. 929? Italian ecclesiastic: pope 914–928.
- juxta- — near, beside, close by
- kgbvax — kremvax
- klaxon — a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles, trucks, etc., and now often used as a warning signal.
- koufax — Sanford ("Sandy") born 1935, U.S. baseball player.
- larnax — a coffin made of terracotta
- larynx — Anatomy. a muscular and cartilaginous structure lined with mucous membrane at the upper part of the trachea in humans, in which the vocal cords are located.
- lastex — a type of yarn which is wound around with rayon, nylon, silk or cotton threads
- laxalt — Paul, born 1922, U.S. politician: senator 1974–87.
- laxism — (in Roman Catholic theology) the doctrine that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- laxist — (in Roman Catholic theology) a casuist who believes that, in cases of doubt in moral matters, the more liberal course should always be followed
- laxity — the state or quality of being lax; looseness.
- ledoux — Claude-Nicolas [klohd-nee-kaw-lah] /kloʊd ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French architect.
- lenexa — a city in NE Kansas.
- lennox — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- leo ix — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- leo xi — (Alessandro de'Medici) 1535–1605, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1605.
- lexell — Astronomy. a comet that passed closer to the earth than any other comet (1770), but now has an orbit that is too distant from the earth for it to be observed.
- lexeme — a lexical unit in a language, as a word or base; vocabulary item.
- lexica — a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.