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6-letter words that end in x

  • pickax — a pick, especially a mattock.
  • pictex — A version of TeX for pictures.
  • pius x — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
  • po box — Post Office Box
  • poleax — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
  • pollex — the innermost digit of the forelimb; thumb.
  • pollux — Greek Polydeuces. Classical Mythology. the brother of Castor. Compare Castor and Pollux.
  • pop-9x — Proposed BSI standard for Pop-11.
  • preccx — (tool)   (Pre-C-Compiler eXtended) An infinite-lookahead compiler-compiler by Peter Breuer <[email protected]> for context dependent grammars. PRECCX generates ANSI C. Specification scripts are in very EBNF with inherited attributes and synthetic attributes allowed. Scripts can be compiled in separate modules and linked later. Meta-production rules are allowed. Grammars can be essentially LL(oo) with optimisations. A converter for yacc scripts is available. Versions 1.xx were known as "PRECC" and only had unbounded lookahead. The 2.xx series added the "X" for "extended" and featured higher order parameterisation (inherited attributes). Version 2.42 integrates inherited and synthesized attributes by using a "monadic" model for parsing. You can now synthsize attributes during the pass and inherit them in the remainder, e.g. @ foo = bar\x gum(x) synthesises an x in bar and passes it down into gum as a parameter. Useful for @ what = ?\x did_you_say(x), for example. It now compiles into C instead of running an interpreter at parse-time. Version 2.42 runs under Unix and MS-DOS. E-mail: Peter Breuer <[email protected]>, Jonathan Bowen <[email protected]>.
  • prefix — Grammar. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
  • premix — Also, premixture [pree-miks-cher] /priˈmɪks tʃər/ (Show IPA). a mixture of ingredients, made before selling, using, etc.: The chain saw runs on a premix of oil and gasoline.
  • pretax — profits, etc.: before tax
  • prolix — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
  • reflex — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • reflux — a flowing back; ebb.
  • riscix — (operating system)   /risk-icks/ (Or "RISC iX") BSD-based Unix developed by Acorn Computers Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) to run on 32-bit ARM RISC processors. RISCiX was launched circa 1989 for three production machines - the R140, R260, the discless R225; and other prototypes.
  • scolex — the anterior, headlike segment of a tapeworm, having suckers, hooks, or the like, for attachment.
  • semtex — a plastic explosive that is easily tractable and almost odorless, used especially by terrorists.
  • silvex — a herbicide that eradicates weeds and woody plants
  • skybox — a private compartment, usually near the top of a stadium, for viewing a sports contest.
  • smilax — any plant belonging to the genus Smilax, of the lily family, growing in tropical and temperate zones, consisting mostly of vines having woody stems.
  • spadix — an inflorescence consisting of a spike with a fleshy or thickened axis, usually enclosed in a spathe.
  • sphinx — a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. (usually initial capital letter) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza.
  • sphynx — a breed of medium-sized hairless cat with large ears and a long whiplike tail
  • storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • styrax — any tropical or subtropical tree of the genus Styrax, which includes the storaxes
  • subfix — subscript (def 4).
  • suffix — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
  • suplex — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler grasps his opponent round the waist from behind and carries him backwards
  • surtax — an additional or extra tax on something already taxed.
  • sussex — a former county in SE England: divided into East Sussex and West Sussex.
  • syntax — Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
  • syrinx — Ornithology. the vocal organ of birds, situated at or near the bifurcation of the trachea into the bronchi.
  • tampax — a brand of tampon (for absorbing menstrual blood); sometimes used as a generic name
  • teabox — a box for storing tea
  • tettix — a cicada
  • thorax — Anatomy. the part of the trunk in humans and higher vertebrates between the neck and the abdomen, containing the cavity, enclosed by the ribs, sternum, and certain vertebrae, in which the heart, lungs, etc., are situated; chest.
  • tk-90x — (computer)   A Brazilian clone, manufactured by Micro Digital, of the British Sinclair Research ZX Spectrum 8-bit microcomputer. It differed from the standard Spectrum by adding an Interface 2-compatible joystick interface, and extra BASIC commands to aid programming and graphics-editing. Because of these differences, it was slightly incompatible with the standard Spectrum. A later model, the TK-95, which boasted an improved keyboard (similar to the Commodore 64's) and a more compatible ROM, was little more than a Timex TC2048 (another Spectrum clone) in disguise.
  • torpex — (sometimes lowercase) a high explosive made of TNT, cyclonite, and aluminum powder and used especially in torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
  • toybox — a large container for the storage of children's toys
  • trimix — a mixture of nitrogen, helium, and oxygen used for breathing by divers
  • tutrix — a female tutor or guardian
  • twenex — (operating system)   /twe'neks/ The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC - the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 - preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman's TENEX operating system using special paging hardware. By the early 1970s, almost all of the systems on the ARPANET ran TENEX. DEC purchased the rights to TENEX from BBN and began work to make it their own. The first in-house code name for the operating system was VIROS (VIRtual memory Operating System); when customers started asking questions, the name was changed to SNARK so DEC could truthfully deny that there was any project called VIROS. When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that "krans" meant "funeral wreath" in Swedish (though some Swedish speakers have since said it means simply "wreath"; this part of the story may be apocryphal). Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating system, and it was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of "twenty TENEX"), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC people cringed when they heard "TWENEX", but the term caught on nevertheless (the written abbreviation "20x" was also used). TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS - but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun. DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert to VMS, but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix.
  • ultrix — (operating system)   A version of Unix based on the Berkeley version, designed and implemented by DEC to run on their VAX and DECstation processors.
  • unisex — of, designed, or suitable for both sexes; not distinguishing between male and female; undifferentiated as to sex: unisex clothes.
  • usenix — (body)   Since 1975, the USENIX Association has provided a forum for the communication of the results of innovation and research in Unix and modern open systems. It is well known for its technical conferences, tutorial programs, and the wide variety of publications it has sponsored over the years. USENIX is the original not-for-profit membership organisation for individuals and institutions interested in Unix and Unix-like systems, by extension, X, object-oriented technology, and other advanced tools and technologies, and the broad interconnected and interoperable computing environment. USENIX's activities include an annual technical conference; frequent specific-topic conferences and symposia; a highly regarded tutorial program covering a wide range of topics, introductory through advanced; numerous publications, including a book series, in cooperation with The MIT Press, on advanced computing systems, proceedings from USENIX symposia and conferences, the quarterly journal "Computing Systems", and the biweekly newsletter; "login: "; participation in various ANSI, IEEE and ISO standards efforts; sponsorship of local and special technical groups relevant to Unix. The chartering of SAGE, the System Administrators Guild as a Special Technical Group within USENIX is the most recent.
  • vernix — a white substance covering the skin of a fetus
  • vertex — the highest point of something; apex; summit; top: the vertex of a mountain.
  • volvox — any colonial, freshwater green algae of the genus Volvox, forming a hollow, greenish sphere of flagellated cells.
  • vortex — a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
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