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7-letter words that end in x

  • kinepox — Alternative form of kine-pox.
  • kit fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
  • kit-fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
  • kleenex — (North America) A generic term for any type of disposable tissue.
  • kremvax — /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West.
  • ku klux — Ku Klux Klan
  • lascaux — the site of a cave in SW France, in the Dordogne: contains Palaeolithic wall drawings and paintings
  • lemieux — Mario ("Super Mario") born 1965, Canadian hockey player and executive.
  • les six — a group of six young composers in France, who from about 1916 formed a temporary association as a result of interest in neoclassicism and in the music of Satie and the poetry of Cocteau. Its members were Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre
  • lisieux — a town in NW France: Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre, for its shrine of St Thérèse, who lived there. Pop: 22 109 (2006)
  • lockbox — a strongbox.
  • mailbox — a public box in which mail is placed for pickup and delivery by the post office.
  • malraux — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.
  • margaux — a red wine produced in the region around the village of Margaux near Bordeaux
  • meat-ax — drastic or severe: meat-ax defense cuts.
  • megamix — (music) A remix taking the form of a medley, with radical alterations and many constituent pieces of music.
  • michaux — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1984, French poet and painter, born in Belgium.
  • milieux — surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu.
  • minimax — a strategy of game theory employed to minimize a player's maximum possible loss.
  • modulex — Based on Modula-2. Mentioned by M.P. Atkinson & J.W. Schmidt in a tutorial in Zurich, 1989.
  • monteux — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1875–1964, U.S. symphony orchestra conductor born in France.
  • musk ox — 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.
  • narthex — an enclosed passage between the main entrance and the nave of a church.
  • nestbox — Alternative spelling of nest box.
  • omnifax — Alternate name for NYU OMNIFAX? Early system on UNIVAC I or II. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • oratrix — a woman who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence.
  • out-box — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding outgoing mail, messages, or work.
  • outflux — the act of flowing out; outflow (opposed to influx).
  • outjinx — to exceed in jinxing
  • overlax — too lax
  • overmix — to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
  • overtax — to tax too heavily.
  • packwax — a neck ligament
  • panchax — any of a variety of colorful tropical Old World fishes of the genus Aplocheilus and related genera: popular in home aquariums.
  • paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
  • peg box — the head of a stringed instrument, with several pegs that can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them
  • perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
  • perspex — acrylic material: artificial glass
  • phalanx — (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
  • pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.
  • phoenix — a state in SW United States. 113,909 sq. mi. (295,025 sq. km). Capital: Phoenix. Abbreviation: AZ (for use with zip code), Ariz.
  • pillbox — a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills.
  • pius ix — (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) 1792–1878, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1846–78.
  • poorbox — a box, esp one in a church, used for the collection of alms or money for the poor
  • postbox — a mailbox, especially one for public deposit of mail.
  • postfix — to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.
  • posttax — existing or remaining after tax is deducted
  • pre-tax — profits, etc.: before tax
  • pre\box — (computer)   Phase 5's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card, as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram. It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software. Other features include EIDE, Ultra Wide SCSI-II, PCI, Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower. Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
  • princox — a self-confident young fellow; coxcomb.
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