7-letter words containing x
- jouhaux — Léon [ley-awn] /leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1879–1954, French labor leader and politician: Nobel Peace Prize 1951.
- jukebox — a coin-operated phonograph, typically in a gaudy, illuminated cabinet, having a variety of records that can be selected by push button.
- k56flex — (protocol) A modem standard developed by Rockwell for 56 kbps communications. K56flex Became more popular than the rival X2 but will be superseded by the official V.90 standard.
- kickbox — to practise kickboxing
- kinepox — Alternative form of kine-pox.
- kit fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- kit-fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- klaxons — Plural form of klaxon.
- kleenex — (North America) A generic term for any type of disposable tissue.
- kremvax — /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West.
- ku klux — Ku Klux Klan
- lascaux — the site of a cave in SW France, in the Dordogne: contains Palaeolithic wall drawings and paintings
- laxator — (anatomy) A muscle whose contraction loosens some part.
- laxness — Halldór Kiljan [hahl-dohr kil-yahn] /ˈhɑl doʊr ˈkɪl yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1902–98, Icelandic writer: Nobel Prize 1955.
- lemieux — Mario ("Super Mario") born 1965, Canadian hockey player and executive.
- leo xii — (Annibale Francesco della Genga) 1760–1829, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1823–29.
- les six — a group of six young composers in France, who from about 1916 formed a temporary association as a result of interest in neoclassicism and in the music of Satie and the poetry of Cocteau. Its members were Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre
- lexemes — Plural form of lexeme.
- lexemic — Of or relating to a lexeme.
- lexical — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lexicon — a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.
- lisieux — a town in NW France: Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre, for its shrine of St Thérèse, who lived there. Pop: 22 109 (2006)
- lixivia — the solution, containing alkaline salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes with water; lye.
- lockbox — a strongbox.
- loxygen — liquid oxygen
- luxated — Simple past tense and past participle of luxate.
- mailbox — a public box in which mail is placed for pickup and delivery by the post office.
- malraux — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.
- manxman — a native or inhabitant of the Isle of Man.
- margaux — a red wine produced in the region around the village of Margaux near Bordeaux
- martext — a preacher who makes many mistakes
- marxian — of or relating to Karl Marx or his theories.
- marxism — the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.
- marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
- max out — maximum.
- maxilla — a jaw or jawbone, especially the upper.
- maximal — of or being a maximum; greatest possible; highest.
- maximin — minimax
- maximop — "Job Control Languages: MAXIMOP and CAFE", J. Brandon, Proc BCS Symp on Job Control Languages--Past Present and Future, NCC, Manchester, ENgland 1974.
- maximum — the greatest quantity or amount possible, assignable, allowable, etc.
- maximus — a method rung on twelve bells
- maxixes — Plural form of maxixe.
- maxwell — Elsa, 1883–1963, U.S. professional hostess and author.
- meat-ax — drastic or severe: meat-ax defense cuts.
- meataxe — a cleaver
- megamix — (music) A remix taking the form of a medley, with radical alterations and many constituent pieces of music.
- metaxas — Joannes [Greek yaw-ah-nyees] /Greek yɔˈɑ nyis/ (Show IPA), 1871–1941, Greek general and political leader: dictator 1936–40.
- methoxy — containing the methoxy group.
- mexican — of or relating to Mexico or its people.
- michaux — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1984, French poet and painter, born in Belgium.