7-letter words containing x
- carapax — a carapace
- casebox — a device, similar to an abacus, for recording the cards as they are drawn from the dealing box.
- casemix — the varied types of patients treated by a hospital or medical unit
- cashbox — a strongbox for holding cash, esp in a business or financial institution
- celotex — a type of thermal insulation board
- centrex — a telephone system for businesses, large organizations, etc. in which outside calls can be made directly to, or from, any extension
- chamoix — an agile, goatlike antelope, Rupicapra rupicapra, of high mountains of Europe: now rare in some areas.
- chemsex — sexual activity performed while under the influence of psychoactive drugs
- chillax — If you chillax, you relax and stop being angry or anxious.
- ciseaux — a jump in which the dancer's legs are opened wide in the air and closed on landing.
- coalbox — a box for holding coal
- coannex — to annex with something else
- coaxial — having or being mounted on a common axis
- coaxing — the act of persuading by tenderness, flattery, pleading, etc
- coexert — to exert together
- coexist — If one thing coexists with another, they exist together at the same time or in the same place. You can also say that two things coexist.
- complex — Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
- conflux — confluence
- context — The context of an idea or event is the general situation that relates to it, and which helps it to be understood.
- corixid — any heteropterous water bug of the vegetarian family Corixidae, typified by Corixa punctata, common in sluggish waters. The forelegs have become modified and are used in stridulation, as by the water singer (Micronecta poweri)
- coxcomb — a foppish man
- coxitis — an inflammation of the hip joint
- coxless — (rowing) Not having a cox.
- craptex — /krap'tekh/ (University of York, England) Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else). The non-TeX enthusiasts generally dislike it because it is more verbose than other formatters (e.g. troff) and because (particularly if the standard Computer Modern fonts are used) it generates vast output files. See religious issues.
- de luxe — (esp of products, articles for sale, etc) rich, elegant, or sumptuous; superior in quality, number of accessories, etc
- deindex — to cause to become no longer index-linked
- delvaux — Paul. 1897–1994, Belgian surrealist painter: his works portray dreamlike figures in mysterious settings
- desexed — Simple past tense and past participle of desex.
- desexes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desex.
- detoxed — Simple past tense and past participle of detox.
- detoxes — Plural form of detox.
- dextral — of, relating to, or located on the right side, esp of the body; right-hand
- dextran — a polysaccharide produced by the action of bacteria on sucrose: used as a substitute for plasma in blood transfusions
- dextrin — any of a group of sticky substances that are intermediate products in the conversion of starch to maltose: used as thickening agents in foods and as gums
- dextro- — on or towards the right
- digibox — a device which converts the signals from a digital television broadcast into a form which can be viewed on a standard television set
- digoxin — a cardiac glycoside of purified digitalis, C 41 H 64 O 14 , derived from the plant leaves of Digitalis lanata and widely used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
- dioxane — a colorless, flammable, liquid cyclic ether, C 4 H 8 O 2 , having a faint, pleasant odor: used chiefly in the varnish and silk industries and as a dehydrator in histology.
- dioxide — an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen, each of which is bonded directly to an atom of a second element, as manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , or nitrogen dioxide, NO 2 .
- dioxins — Plural form of dioxin.
- directx — (programming, hardware) A Microsoft programming interface standard, first included with Windows 95. DirectX gives (games) programmers a standard way to gain direct access to enhanced hardware features under Windows 95 instead of going via the Windows 95 GDI. Some DirectX code runs faster than the equivalent under MS DOS. DirectX promises performance improvements for graphics, sound, video, 3D, and network capabilites of games, but only where both hardware and software support DirectX. DirectX 2 introduced the Direct3D interface. Version 5 was current at 1998-02-01. Version 8.1 is included in Windows XP.
- distfix — (programming) ("distributed fixity"?) A description of an operator represented by multiple symbols before, between, and/or after the arguments. The classical example is the C conditional operator, "?:" which is written E1 ? E2 : E3 If E1 is true it returns E2 otherwise it returns E3. Several functional programming languages, e.g. Hope, Haskell, have similar operators ("if E1 then E2 else E3"). getRow:row andColumn:col ofCell:cell is a message with three arguments, row, col, and cell.
- distrix — the splitting of the ends of hairs
- dog box — a compartment in a railway carriage with no corridor
- dog fox — a male fox.
- downmix — (transitive) To mix (a number of distinct audio channels) to produce a lower number of channels.
- doxepin — a tricyclic antidepressant, C 19 H 21 NO, used primarily to treat depression or anxiety.
- dropbox — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- dumb ox — a dimwit
- dupleix — Joseph François [zhoh-zef frahn-swa] /ʒoʊˈzɛf frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Marquis, 1697–1763, French colonial governor of India 1724–54.