4-letter words containing x
- muxe — in SW Mexico, a man who lives as a woman.
- netx — (company) A LukeCo Company that designs web pages and web software. Not to be confused with Net:X.
- nexo — Martin Andersen [mahr-ten-ah-nuh r-suh n] /ˈmɑr tɛnˈɑ nər sən/ (Show IPA), 1869–1954, Danish novelist.
- next — immediately following in time, order, importance, etc.: the next day; the next person in line.
- nexø — Martin Andersen (ˈmarten). 1869–1954, Danish novelist. His chief works are the novels Pelle the Conqueror (1906–10), which deals with the labour movement, and Ditte, Daughter of Man (1917–21)
- nixy — Alternative spelling of nixie (female water-elf).
- noxa — Lb medicine Anything that exerts a harmful influence, such as trauma, poison, etc.
- obex — Object Exchange
- onyx — Mineralogy. a variety of chalcedony having straight parallel bands of alternating colors. Compare Mexican onyx.
- oryx — a large African antelope, Oryx gazella, grayish with black markings and having long, nearly straight horns: an endangered species.
- osax — OSA extension
- oxa- — indicating that a chemical compound contains oxygen, used esp to denote that a heterocyclic compound is derived from a specified compound by replacement of a carbon atom with an oxygen atom
- oxen — a plural of ox.
- oxer — a high fence
- oxes — the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal.
- oxid — a compound in which oxygen is bonded to one or more electropositive atoms.
- oxo- — indicating that a chemical compound contains oxygen linked to another atom by a double bond, used esp to denote that a compound is derived from a specified compound by replacement of a methylene group with a carbonyl group
- oxon — Oxfordshire.
- oxus — Amu Darya.
- oxy- — denoting something sharp; acute
- pabx — (communications) (PABX) A telephone exchange operated within an organisation, used for switching calls between internal lines and between internal and PSTN lines. In contrast to a PMBX, a PABX can route calls without manual intervention, based entirely on the number dialed. Not all PABXs can route external calls to internal numbers automatically however.
- plex — a shortened form of multiplex
- pmbx — Private Manual Branch eXchange
- pnyx — a hill in Athens, Greece, near the Acropolis: the place of assembly in ancient Athens.
- poxy — If you describe something or someone as poxy, you think that they are insignificant, too small, or bad in some other way.
- prex — a president, especially of a college or university.
- prix — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- quux — (computing) Metasyntactic variable.
- rexx — Restructured EXtended eXecutor
- roux — a cooked mixture of butter or other fat and flour used to thicken sauces, soups, etc.
- saxe — Comte Hermann Maurice de [er-man maw-rees duh] /ɛrˈman mɔˈris də/ (Show IPA), 1696–1750, French military leader: marshal of France 1744.
- sex- — six
- sext — a sexually explicit digital image, text message, etc., sent to someone usually by cell phone.
- sexy — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- sfax — a seaport in E Tunisia, in N Africa.
- splx — (language) Specification Language for Parallel cross-product of processes and sequential modules.
- styx — a river in the underworld, over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon, and by which the gods swore their most solemn oaths.
- taxa — plural of taxon.
- taxi — a taxicab.
- tclx — Extended Tcl
- text — the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
- tox- — combining form. indicating poison
- tox. — toxicology
- tx-0 — The first transistorised computer, the direct ancestor of the PDP-1 built at MIT's Lincoln Lab in 1957.
- uimx — An interface builder for Motif from Visual Edge.
- ulex — any of a genus of thorny shrubs of the family Fabaceae
- un*x — (operating system, convention) Used to refer to the Unix operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography. Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. Ironically, lawyers now say that the requirement for the TM-postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow. It has been suggested that there may be a psychological connection to practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which the name of the deity is never written out in full, e.g. "YHWH" or "G--d" is used. See also glob.
- unix — (operating system) /yoo'niks/ (Or "UNIX", in the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics") Plural "Unices". An interactive time-sharing operating system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C, is considered a co-author of the system. The turning point in Unix's history came when it was reimplemented almost entirely in C during 1972 - 1974, making it the first source-portable OS. Unix subsequently underwent mutations and expansions at the hands of many different people, resulting in a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly environment. By 1991, Unix had become the most widely used multi-user general-purpose operating system in the world. Many people consider this the most important victory yet of hackerdom over industry opposition (but see Unix weenie and Unix conspiracy for an opposing point of view). Unix is now offered by many manufacturers and is the subject of an international standardisation effort [called?]. Unix-like operating systems include AIX, A/UX, BSD, Debian, FreeBSD, GNU, HP-UX, Linux, NetBSD, NEXTSTEP, OpenBSD, OPENSTEP, OSF, POSIX, RISCiX, Solaris, SunOS, System V, Ultrix, USG Unix, Version 7, Xenix. "Unix" or "UNIX"? Both seem roughly equally popular, perhaps with a historical bias toward the latter. "UNIX" is a registered trademark of The Open Group, however, since it is a name and not an acronym, "Unix" has been adopted in this dictionary except where a larger name includes it in upper case. Since the OS is case-sensitive and exists in many different versions, it is fitting that its name should reflect this.
- uxor — wife (used chiefly in the legal phrase et uxor).
- vaux — Calvert, 1824–95, U.S. landscape architect, born in England: collaborator with Frederick Law Olmsted.