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5-letter words that end in x

  • gen-x — An expert system developed by General Electric.
  • gueux — a league of Dutch and Flemish patriots, composed chiefly of nobles and formed in 1566 to resist the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands.
  • hapax — (informal) abbreviation of hapax legomenon.
  • helix — a spiral.
  • hepix — A recently formed collaboration among various HEP institutes aiming at providing "compatible" versions of the Unix operating system at their sites.
  • hp-ux — (operating system)   The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. HP-UX conforms to X/Open's Portability Guide Issue 4 (XPG4), Federal Information Processing Specification (FIPS) 151.1, POSIX 1003.1, POSIX 1003.2, AT&T's System V Interface Definition 2 (SVID 2). HP-UX incorporates selected features from the University of California at Berkeley Software Distribution 4.3 (4.3BSD). It is known by some as "HP-SUX".
  • hyrax — any of several species of small mammals of the order Hyracoidea, of Africa and the Mediterranean region, having short legs, ears, and tail, and hooflike nails on the toes.
  • idmsx — (database)   IDMS extended.
  • immix — to mix in; mingle.
  • impex — (business,in company names) import and export.
  • inbox — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
  • index — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
  • infix — to fix, fasten, or drive in: He infixed the fatal spear.
  • inmix — Lb transitive to mix in; intermingle.
  • ispbx — Integrated Services Digital Network PBX.
  • jolix — 386BSD
  • kylix — a shallow bowl having two horizontal handles projecting from the sides, often set upon a stem terminating in a foot: used as a drinking cup.
  • latex — a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.
  • lenox — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
  • leo x — (Giovanni de'Medici) 1475–1521, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1513–21 (son of Lorenzo de'Medici).
  • limax — a slug
  • linux — (operating system)   ("Linus Unix") /li'nuks/ (but see below) An implementation of the Unix kernel originally written from scratch with no proprietary code. The kernel runs on Intel and Alpha hardware in the general release, with SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, Amiga, Atari, and SGI in active development. The SPARC, PowerPC, ARM, PowerMAC - OSF, and 68k ports all support shells, X and networking. The Intel and SPARC versions have reliable symmetric multiprocessing. Work on the kernel is coordinated by Linus Torvalds, who holds the copyright on a large part of it. The rest of the copyright is held by a large number of other contributors (or their employers). Regardless of the copyright ownerships, the kernel as a whole is available under the GNU General Public License. The GNU project supports Linux as its kernel until the research Hurd kernel is completed. This kernel would be no use without application programs. The GNU project has provided large numbers of quality tools, and together with other public domain software it is a rich Unix environment. A compilation of the Linux kernel and these tools is known as a Linux distribution. Compatibility modules and/or emulators exist for dozens of other computing environments. The kernel version numbers are significant: the odd numbered series (e.g. 1.3.xx) is the development (or beta) kernel which evolves very quickly. Stable (or release) kernels have even major version numbers (e.g. 1.2.xx). There is a lot of commercial support for and use of Linux, both by hardware companies such as Digital, IBM, and Apple and numerous smaller network and integration specialists. There are many commercially supported distributions which are generally entirely under the GPL. At least one distribution vendor guarantees Posix compliance. Linux is particularly popular for Internet Service Providers, and there are ports to both parallel supercomputers and embedded microcontrollers. Debian is one popular open source distribution. The pronunciation of "Linux" has been a matter of much debate. Many, including Torvalds, insist on the short I pronunciation /li'nuks/ because "Linus" has an /ee/ sound in Swedish (Linus's family is part of Finland's 6% ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English short /i/ to be closer to /ee/ than English long /i:/ dipthong. This is consistent with the short I in words like "linen". This doesn't stop others demanding a long I /li:'nuks/ following the english pronunciation of "Linus" and "minus". Others say /li'niks/ following Minix, which Torvalds was working on before Linux.
  • lomax — John Avery, 1867–1948, and his son, Alan, born 1915, U.S. folklorists.
  • lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
  • lynix — (spelling)   Misspelling of "Linux" (the Unix clone), or possibly "lynx" (the web browser).
  • malax — to soften
  • mcvax — mcvax.cwi.nl used to be the international backbone node of EUnet, the European Unix network. It was located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and belonged to "Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica" (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science) which is an institute belonging to a foundation called "Mathematisch Centrum". Since the first mcvax was on of the first VAXen in Europe and one of it's first uucp connections was to a machine called decvax it was quickly christened mcvax. Some also say this was done to give Jim McKie a nice mail address: mcvax!mckie. But this is certainly not true at all. The function of EUnet international backbone moved to another VAX later but the name moved with it, because in those days of mainly uucp based mail and before widespread use of pathalias it was simply not feasible to rename the machine to "europa" as was suggested at one stage. Mcsun (or relay.eu.net or net.eu.relay in some parts of Europe) replaced the international backbone host of EUnet around 1990. This machine was donated by Sun Microsystems owned by the European Unix Systems User Group (EUUG). It was located about 5m from where mcvax used to be and operated by the same people. Mcvax has finally ceased to exist in the domain and uucp namespaces. It still exists in the EARN/BITNET namespace.
  • memex — (hypertext)   Vannevar Bush's original name for hypertext, which he invented in the 1930s.
  • middx — Middlesex
  • minix — (operating system)   /MIN-ix/ A small operating system that is very similar to UNIX. MINIX was written for educational purposes by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. MINIX has been written from scratch and contains no AT&T code -- neither in the kernel, the compiler, the utilities, nor the libraries. Although copyrighted by Prentice-Hall, all sources, binaries and documentation can be obtained via Internet for educational or research purposes. Current versions as of 1996-11-15: MINIX 2.0 - Intel CPUs from Intel 8088 to Pentium MINIX 1.5 - Intel, Macintosh (MacMinix), Amiga, Atari ST, Sun SPARC.
  • mirex — A synthetic insecticide of the organochlorine type used chiefly against ants.
  • murex — any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
  • mutex — (tool, music)   An extension of TeX for typesetting music.
  • net:x — (company)   A Canadian company. Not to be confused with NetX.
  • nirex — Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive
  • nomex — a lightweight, fire-resistant, nylon fiber made into garments, aircraft upholstery, etc.
  • panax — any perennial herb of the genus Panax
  • phlox — any plant of the genus Phlox, of North America, certain species of which are cultivated for their showy flowers of various colors. Compare phlox family.
  • podex — the posterior of an animal
  • posix — Portable Operating System Interface
  • pyrex — Pyrex is a type of strong glass which is used for making bowls and dishes that do not break when you cook things in them.
  • radix — Mathematics. a number taken as the base of a system of numbers, logarithms, or the like.
  • redex — Reducible Expression. An expression matching the left hand side of a reduction rule or definition.
  • redox — oxidation-reduction
  • redux — brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
  • refix — to repair; mend.
  • regex — The GNU regular expression matching library. See also Rx.
  • relax — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
  • remex — one of the flight feathers of the wing.
  • remix — to mix again.
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