(obsolete, UK, Scotland) A baker; originally, a female baker.
bixler
boxcar
boxcar
noun
(rail transport, US) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
verb
(mathematics, transitive) To reduce to a boxcar function.
boxers
boxers
noun
(informal) Boxer shorts.
plural of boxer
boxier
boxier
adj
comparative form of boxy: more boxy
brieux
brixey
caranx
caranx
noun
(zoology) Any member of the fish genus Caranx; a jacks, trevallies, or kingfishes.
carfax
carfax
noun
A junction of four roads.
The main intersection in a town.
caxiri
caxiri
noun
An intoxicating drink prepared from grated manioc, consumed in some Native American cultures.
cervix
cervix
noun
(anatomy) The neck
The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.
The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb.
clorox
coaxer
coaxer
noun
A person who coaxes
cordax
cordax
noun
(historical) A lascivious dance featuring in Ancient Greek comedy.
corixa
cornix
cortex
cortex
noun
(archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.
(countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
(uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
coxier
coxier
adj
comparative form of coxy: more coxy
cruxes
darnex
darnix
dexter
dexter
adj
(archaic) Right; on the right-hand side.
noun
(heraldry) The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer.
The right hand.
dextra
dextro
drexel
dropax
druxey
druxey
adj
Alternative form of druxy
earwax
earwax
noun
(medicine, pathology) A waxy substance secreted by the ear.
elixir
elixir
noun
(alchemy) A liquid which converts lead to gold.
(alchemy) A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.
(by extension) The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea.
(pharmacy) A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
evreux
exarch
exarch
noun
(historical) In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.
In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.
excern
excern
verb
(archaic) excrete; give off
excerp
excerp
verb
(obsolete) To pick out.
exedra
exedra
noun
(architecture) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion.
(by extension) A curved bench with a high back.
exerce
exerts
exerts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exert
exeter
exeter
Proper noun
A city in Devon, south west England.
A city in California, United States.
A village in Illinois, United States.
A town in Maine, United States.
A city in Missouri, United States.
A village in Nebraska, United States.
A town in New Hampshire, United States.
A village in New South Wales, Australia.
A town in New York, United States.
A borough in Pennsylvania, United States.
A town in Rhode Island, United States.
A town in Tasmania, Australia.
A town in Wisconsin, United States.
exhort
exhort
verb
To urge; to advise earnestly.
exiler
exiler
noun
One who exiles.
exmoor
exmoor
Proper noun
A national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.
Noun
One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, with white legs and face and black nostrils.
One of a breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.
exmore
exoner
expert
expert
adj
(obsolete) Proven, experienced, veteran.
Characteristic of an expert.
Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
noun
(chess) A player ranking just below master.
A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
expire
expire
verb
(intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
(transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
(transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
(transitive, intransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
expiry
expiry
noun
(Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada) Death.
(Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada) End; termination; expiration.
(New Zealand, Australia) Synonym of expiration date
export
export
adj
Of or relating to exportation or exports.
noun
(countable) Something that is exported.
(uncountable) The act of exporting.
verb
(transitive) To carry away.
(transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.
(transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
(transitive) To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
(transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.
exsert
exsert
adj
Standing out; projecting beyond some other part.
verb
(transitive) To thrust out; to cause to protrude.
extern
extern
adj
(obsolete, rare) External; outward; not inherent
noun
(programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
A day-scholar.
A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
Outward form or part; exterior.
extirp
extirp
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To extirpate (something).
extort
extort
adj
(obsolete) Wrongfully obtained.
verb
(transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
(transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
fluxer
forfex
forfex
noun
(obsolete) A pair of shears.
fornax
fornix
fornix
noun
(neuroanatomy) A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus.
The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera.
The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.
foxery
foxery
noun
cunning behavior; trickery; deceit
foxier
foxier
adj
comparative form of foxy: more foxy
fraxin
fraxin
noun
(organic chemistry) A colourless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It is faintly fluorescent in alkaline solutions.
frutex
frutex
noun
(botany) A plant with a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
hexdra
hexers
hexers
noun
plural of hexer
hoaxer
hoaxer
noun
Someone who perpetrates hoaxes.
huxter
huxter
noun
Dated form of huckster.
imbrex
imbrex
noun
(archaeology) A roof tile common in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, used in an overlapping formation with the tegula.
ixoras
ixoras
noun
plural of ixora
kluxer
kordax
larnax
larnax
noun
(archaeology, historical) A small closed coffin, box or cinerary urn often used as a container for human remains in Ancient Greece.
larnyx
larynx
larynx
noun
(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, because it houses the vocal cords, sound production.
Meronyms: epilarynx, hypolarynx, orolarynx
luxora
luxury
luxury
adj
(automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
very expensive
noun
Something desirable but expensive.
Something that is pleasant but not necessary in life.
Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
marmax
matrix
matrix
noun
(analytical chemistry) The environment from which a given sample is taken.
(archaeology and paleontology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
(biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
(biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
(biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
(biology) The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
(computing) A two-dimensional array.
(dyeing) The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
(electronics) A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
(geology) A geological matrix.
(material science) A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
(mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
(now rare) The womb.
(printing, historical) In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
(printing, historical) In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
(slang, figurative) a term describing a controlled environment or situation in which people act or behave in ways that conform to roles pre-determined by a powerful person(s) who decides how the world is supposed to function (as if the world is but virtual reality and people but brains in a vat).
A table of data.
The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
meraux
mixers
mixers
noun
plural of mixer
muruxi
natrix
naxera
nerinx
nexrad
ordlix
orexin
orexin
noun
(biochemistry) Either of two neuropeptide hormones found in vertebrates; the hypocretins.
orexis
orexis
noun
(psychology) The affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act; desire, appetite.
oryxes
oryxes
noun
plural of oryx
oxbird
oxbird
noun
An African weaverbird (Bubalornis albirostris).
The dunlin.
The sanderling.
oxcart
oxcart
noun
A cart designed to be drawn by an ox or oxen.
oxford
oxford
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (cloth)
Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (shoe)
oxherd
oxherd
noun
One who herds oxen.
oxhorn
oxhorn
noun
The horn of an ox.
oxnard
oxnard
Proper noun
A city in southern California, United States.
oxreim
oxters
oxters
noun
plural of oxter
oxwort
patrix
patrix
noun
A pattern or die used to manufacture a matrix
perdix
perfix
perfix
verb
(obsolete) To fix surely; to appoint.
permix
permix
verb
(obsolete) To mix; to mingle.
peroxy
peroxy
noun
(chemistry, in combination) The divalent radical -O-O- derived from a peroxide
plexor
plexor
noun
(medicine, now rare) A hammer (or other instrument) used to test a person's reflexes.
praxes
praxes
noun
plural of praxis
praxis
praxis
noun
(drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.
(philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
Custom or established practice.
The practical application of any branch of learning.
precox
precox
noun
Alternative form of praecox
prefix
prefix
noun
(computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.
(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
(telecommunications) A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline, mobile, toll-free, premium rate etc.)
A title added to a person's name, such as Mr. or Dr.
verb
(transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance.
(transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.
premix
premix
noun
(Australia, informal) A manufactured beverage consisting of alcohol and soft drink, milk or other non-alcoholic drinks; an alcopop.
A blend of components that has been mixed in advance of use or of further processing.
verb
To blend in advance.
pretax
pretax
adj
Before the payment of taxes.
verb
To tax before the action being taxed occurs.
prexes
prexes
noun
plural of prex
prolix
prolix
adj
(obsolete) Long; having great length.
Tediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
prorex
prorex
noun
(obsolete) viceroy
protax
proulx
raxing
raxing
verb
present participle of rax
redfox
reflex
reflex
adj
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
(painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
Bent, turned back or reflected.
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
noun
(chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
(linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
(linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
verb
(transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
(transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
To respond to a stimulus.
reflux
reflux
noun
(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
The backwards flow of any fluid.
verb
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
To flow back or return.
remixt
remixt
verb
Obsolete form of remixed.
rexana
rexane
rexine
rexine
noun
A type of leather imitation, as used for things like book covers and upholstery.
rexist
rexist
Adjective
Of, pertaining to or advocating Rexism
Noun
A follower or advocate of Rexism.
rhexes
rhexia
rhexia
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Rhexia of plants in the family Melastomataceae.
rhexis
rhexis
noun
(medicine, especially ophthalmology) The rupture of an organ.
riplex
rollix
roxana
roxana
Proper noun
The wife of Alexander the Great.
roxane
roxane
Proper noun
name borrowed from the form of Roxana.
roxine
roxton
sexern
sexier
sexier
adj
comparative form of sexy: more sexy
sextar
sextry
sextry
noun
A sacristy.
sextur
storax
storax
noun
Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs.
The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.
styrax
styrax
noun
Any member of the genus Styrax of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees, mostly native to temperate or tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
surtax
surtax
noun
(law) An additional or extra tax.
verb
(transitive) To impose a surtax upon.
syrinx
syrinx
noun
(medicine) Any of several tuboid structures, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity within the spinal cord or in the brain stem.
(ornithology, zootomy) The voice organ in birds.
A narrow channel cut in rock, especially in ancient Egyptian tombs.
A set of panpipes.
tarbox
taxers
taxers
noun
plural of taxer
tetrix
thorax
thorax
noun
(anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.
(entomology and arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.