5-letter words containing xe
- raxed — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- raxes — to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.
- saxes — a short, single-edged sword of ancient Scandinavia.
- sexed — being of a particular sex or having sexual characteristics.
- sexer — a person trained to determine the sex of an animal, usually chickens
- sexes — either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
- sixer — a cardinal number, five plus one.
- taxed — a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
- taxes — a plural of taxi.
- texel — an island off the N coast of the Netherlands, in the North Sea: largest of the West Frisian Islands. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- tnxe6 — Thanks a million. "E" is used in many programming languages to separate the mantissa and exponent of a floating-point constant so a number ending in "E6" means "times ten to the power six", i.e. times a million.
- vaxen — /vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen." See boxen.
- vexed — irritated; annoyed: vexed at the slow salesclerks.
- vexes — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- vixen — a female fox.
- voxel — any of a number of very small elements that make up a a three-dimensional image, as on a visual display unit
- waxed — Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
- waxen — pertaining to, made of, or resembling wax: a wax candle; a wax doll.
- waxer — a person or appliance that polishes with or applies wax.
- waxes — Plural form of wax.
- xebec — a small, three-masted vessel of the Mediterranean, formerly much used by corsairs, now employed to some extent in commerce.
- xenia — a city in W Ohio.
- xenic — (inorganic chemistry) Relating to xenic acid.
- xenix — (operating system) A commercial version of Unix for microprocessor-based computers, released by Microsoft in 1980. In 1992, SCO became Microsoft's co-development partner and the alternate source for the product.
- xeno- — indicating something strange, different, or foreign
- xenon — a heavy, colorless, chemically inactive, monatomic gaseous element used for filling radio, television, and luminescent tubes. Symbol: Xe; atomic weight: 131.30; atomic number: 54.
- xenyl — (organic chemistry, dated) The univalent radical derived from diphenyl.
- xeres — former name of Jerez.
- xeric — of, relating to, or adapted to a dry environment.
- xero- — indicating dryness
- xerox — (sometimes lowercase) a copy made on a xerographic copying machine.
- xerus — an African ground squirrel of the genus Xerus, having spiny fur, very short ears, and a long tail, and including the species X. rutilus of northeastern Africa and X. erythropus of western and central Africa.
- zaxes — a hatchetlike tool for cutting and punching nail holes in roofing slate.
- zyxel — A modem manufacturer. E-mail: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-255-4101 (Sales), +1 714-693-0808 (tech), +1 714-693-0762 (BBS), +1 714-693-8811 (fax). Address: 4920 E. La Palma, Anaheim, CA 92807, USA.