6-letter words that end in x
- fornax — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Cetus and Phoenix
- fornix — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- frutex — a plant or shrub with a woody stem
- hallux — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- hatbox — a case or box for a hat.
- haybox — A box stuffed with hay in which heated food was left to continue cooking.
- hickox — Richard (Sidney). 1948–2008, British conductor; musical director of the City of London Sinfonia and Singers (1971–2008)
- hijinx — (humorous) Alternative form of hijinks.
- hitbox — (computer graphics) An invisible shape bounding all or part of a model (in a video game, etc.) in order to facilitate collision detection.
- hotbox — a journal box overheated by excessive friction of an axle as a result of inadequate lubrication or the presence of foreign matter.
- hp-sux — (abuse, operating system) /H-P suhks/ An unflattering hackerism for HP-UX which features some truly unique bogosities in the file system internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often referred to as "hockey-pux" inside HP, and one respondent claims that the proper pronunciation is /H-P ukkkhhhh/ as though one were about to spit. Another such alternate spelling and pronunciation is "H-PUX" /H-puhks/. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym. Compare AIDX, buglix, Telerat, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools.
- ice ax — a mountaineering tool combining an adzlike blade and a pick on the head of a long wooden handle, with a spike on the end, used for cutting into ice and for support on icy surfaces.
- icebox — an insulated cabinet or chest with a partition for ice, used for preserving or cooling food, beverages, etc.
- imbrex — a convex tile, used especially in ancient Rome to cover joints in a tile roof.
- implex — the point where muscles are attached to the integument of an arthropod
- in-box — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
- inflex — To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
- influx — act of flowing in.
- isolex — an isogloss marking off the area in which a particular item of vocabulary is found
- jawbox — a metal kitchen sink
- john x — died a.d. 929? Italian ecclesiastic: pope 914–928.
- kgbvax — kremvax
- koufax — Sanford ("Sandy") born 1935, U.S. baseball player.
- larnax — a coffin made of terracotta
- larynx — Anatomy. a muscular and cartilaginous structure lined with mucous membrane at the upper part of the trachea in humans, in which the vocal cords are located.
- lastex — a type of yarn which is wound around with rayon, nylon, silk or cotton threads
- ledoux — Claude-Nicolas [klohd-nee-kaw-lah] /kloʊd ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French architect.
- lennox — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- leo ix — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- lummix — lummox.
- lummox — a clumsy, stupid person.
- maddux — Gregory Alan ("Greg") born 1966, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- magnox — an alloy consisting mostly of magnesium with small amounts of aluminium and other metals, used in fuel elements of nuclear reactors
- mastax — the muscular pharynx of a rotifer, containing a chewing apparatus.
- mastix — mastic, being an aromatic resin obtained from the mastic tree
- matrix — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- meninx — A membrane, especially one of the three membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates.
- merckx — Eddy, born 1945, Belgian cyclist with five victories (1969–72, 1974) in the Tour de France.
- ml-lex — A version of lex in SML/NJ which outputs a lexical analyser in SML/NJ.
- muskox — a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, of arctic regions of North America and Greenland, that is between an ox and a sheep in size and anatomy.
- nitrox — a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used by divers
- nontax — not involving or relating to tax, not derived from or due to tax
- outbox — to surpass in boxing: I've seen the champ outbox better fighters than this one.
- outfox — to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
- patrix — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- paxwax — the neck ligament; nuchal ligament.
- paybox — box office (def 1).
- pdftex — (tool) A modification of TeX to produce PDF output instead of the canonical DVI.
- pegbox — the widened end of the neck of a stringed instrument, to which the tuning pegs are fixed.
- phenix — phoenix.