6-letter words starting with x
- x-axis — Also called axis of abscissas. (in a plane Cartesian coordinate system) the axis, usually horizontal, along which the abscissa is measured and from which the ordinate is measured.
- x-line — mean line.
- x-unit — a unit formerly used to express the wavelength of x-rays and gamma rays, equal to approximately 10− 11 cm. Abbreviation: Xu, XU.
- x-wave — extraordinary wave.
- xanadu — a place of great beauty, luxury, and contentment.
- xanthe — a female given name.
- xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- xcoral — A multiwindow mouse-based text editor, for the X Window System with a built-in browser to navigate through C functions and C++ classes hierarchies. Xcoral provides variables width fonts, menus, scrollbars, buttons, search, regions, kill-buffers and 3D look. Commands are accessible from menus or standard key bindings. Xcoral is a direct Xlib client and runs on colour or monochrome X displays.
- xebecs — Plural form of xebec.
- xemacs — (text, tool) (Originally "Lucid Emacs") A text editor for the X Window System, based on GNU Emacs version 19, produced by a collaboration of Lucid, Inc., SunPro (a division of Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and the University of Illinois. Lucid chose to build part of Energize, their C/C++ development environment on top of GNU Emacs. Though their product is commercial, the work on GNU Emacs is free software, and is useful without having to purchase the product. They needed a version of Emacs with mouse-sensitive regions, multiple fonts, the ability to mark sections of a buffer as read-only, the ability to detect which parts of a buffer has been modified, and many other features. The existing version of Epoch was not sufficient; it did not allow arbitrary pixmaps and icons in buffers, "undo" did not restore changes to regions, regions did not overlap and merge their attributes. Lucid spent some time in 1990 working on Epoch but later decided that their efforts would be better spent improving Emacs 19 instead. Lucid did not have time to get their changes accepted by the FSF so they released Lucid Emacs as a forked branch of Emacs. Roughly a year after Lucid Emacs 19.0 was released, a beta version of the FSF branch of Emacs 19 was released. Lucid continued to develop and support Lucid Emacs, merging in bug fixes and new features from the FSF branch as appropriate. A compatibility package was planned to allow Epoch 4 code to run in Lemacs with little or no change. (As of 19.8, Lucid Emacs ran a descendant of the Epoch redisplay engine.)
- xenial — the influence or effect of pollen on a structure other than the embryo, as the seed or fruit.
- xenium — A gift or offering.
- xeriff — (obsolete) A gold coin once current in Egypt and Turkey.
- xeroma — (medicine) Dryness of the eye.
- xerxes — 519?–465 b.c, king of Persia 486?–465 (son of Darius I).
- xiamen — an island near the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.
- xikang — a former province in W China, now part of Sichuan.
- xining — a city in W China, capital of Qinghai province, at an altitude of 2300 m (7500 ft). Pop: 689 000 (2005 est)
- xiphi- — indicating a sword, esp something shaped like or resembling a sword
- xiphos — A double-edged, single-handed sword used by the Ancient Greeks as a secondary weapon after the spear or javelin.
- xizang — Tibet
- xmodem — (communications) Ward Christensen's file transfer protocol, probably the most widely available protocol used for file transfer over serial lines (e.g. between modems). XMODEM uses 128-byte packets with error detection, allowing the receiver to request retransmission of a corrupted packet. XModem is fairly slow but reliable. Several variations have been proposed with increasing packet sizes (e.g. XMODEM-1K) and different error detection (CRC instead of checksum) to take advantage of faster modems. Sending and receiving programs can negotiate to establish the best protocol they both support. John Mahr wrote the original XMODEM CRC error correction code. This implementation was backward compatible with Christensen's original checksum code. It improved the error detection from 98% to 99.97% and improved the reliability of transmitting binary files. Standard XMODEM specifies a one-second timeout during the reception of characters in the data block portion of a packet. Chuck Forsberg improved upon XMODEM by developing YMODEM and ZMODEM.
- xoanon — (historical) A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece.
- xoxoxo — An abbreviation for hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.
- xp pro — Windows XP Professional Edition
- xun zi — original name Hsun Kuang. c. 300 bc–c. 230 bc, Chinese philosopher, who systematized Confucian teaching
- xuthus — a son of Hellen, regarded as an ancestor of the Ionian Greeks through his son Ion
- xuzhou — a city in N central China, in NW Jiangsu province: scene of a decisive battle (1949) in which the Communists defeated the Nationalists. Pop: 1 662 000 (2005 est)
- xy-pic — (graphics, publication) A package for typesetting graphs and diagrams using TeX. It is structured as several modules, each defining a custom notation for a particular kind of graphical object or structure. Example objects are arrows, curves, and frames. These can be organised in matrix, directed graph, path, polygon, knot, and 2-cell structure. Xy-pic works with LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and plain TeX, and has been used to typeset complicated diagrams from many application areas including category theory, automata theory, algebra, neural networks and database theory.
- xylene — A volatile liquid hydrocarbon obtained by distilling wood, coal tar, or petroleum, and used in fuels and solvents, and in chemical synthesis.
- xyloid — Characteristic of wood; woody.
- xyloma — a hard growth or tumour on a plant or tree
- xylose — A sugar of the pentose class that occurs widely in plants, especially as a component of hemicelluloses.
- xyster — A surgical instrument used to scrape bones.
- xystus — (in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.
On this page, we collect all 6-letter words starting with letter X. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 6-letter word that beginning with X to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.