(finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
(informal) A dismissal or rejection.
(slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
verb
(now obsolete outside dialects, especially African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of ask
(transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.
(transitive, figurative) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
To furnish with an axle.
bax
bix
bix
noun
(UK, informal) biscuits
box
box
noun
(Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
(Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
(automotive) Short for gearbox.
(aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
(baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
(colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
(computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
(cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
(cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
(dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
(dated) A small country house.
(engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
(euphemistic) A coffin.
(fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
(figuratively) A predicament or trap.
(genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
(juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
(lacrosse, informal) Short for box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
(music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
(rail transport) Short for signal box.
(slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
(slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
(slang) A prison cell.
(slang) Preceded by the: television.
(slang, vulgar) The vagina.
(soccer) The penalty area.
A blow with the fist.
A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
A small rectangular shelter.
Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especiallycommon box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
Short for horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
verb
(intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
(transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
(transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
(transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
(transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
(transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
(transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
(transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
(transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
(transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
(transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
bxs
cbx
cgx
cox
cox
noun
A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To act as coxswain for.
cxi
dax
ddx
ddx
Noun
differential diagnosis
dex
dex
noun
(colloquial) Dextroamphetamine/dexedrine.
(colloquial) Dextromethorphan.
(medicine, colloquial) Dexamethasone.
(physics and astrophysics) An order or factor of ten.
(role-playing games) Dexterity.
dix
dnx
dsx
dux
dux
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.
(historical) A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
(music) The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
dvx
dxt
evx
exc
exp
exr
ext
ext
noun
(telecommunications) extension
exterior (describing the location of a shot in a film script, etc.)
fax
fax
intj
Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).
noun
(informal) Nonstandard form of facts.
(obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.
A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.
verb
To send a document via a fax machine.
fdx
fix
fix
noun
(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
A determination of location.
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
A repair or corrective action.
verb
(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
(transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
(transitive) To mend, to repair.
(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
(transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
(transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
(transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
(transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
(transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
(transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
(transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
fox
fox
noun
(cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
(mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
(military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
(nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
(obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
(slang, figurative) A cunning person.
(slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
(slang, figurative) A physically attractive man or woman.
A fox terrier.
A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
The fur of a fox.
The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
verb
(intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
(intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
(intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
(transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
(transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
(transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
(transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
(transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
gex
gox
grx
hax
hax
noun
(chiefly Pokémon) Game-deciding luck-based events in battles.
(slang, computing) Hacks, hacking.
hdx
hex
hex
noun
(climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
(computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.
(rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
A hexagonal space on a game board.
A witch.
An evil spell or curse.
verb
(transitive) To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.
hox
hox
noun
(genetics) Abbreviation of homeobox.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To hock; to hamstring; to cripple; to disable.
hux
ipx
ixc
ixm
jmx
kex
kex
noun
(obsolete or dialectal) The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
(obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
(rare) A dry husk or covering.
lax
lax
adj
(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
Loose; not tight or taut.
noun
(now chiefly UK dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
(slang) Lacrosse.
ldx
lex
lex
noun
(linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.
verb
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
lox
lox
noun
(US) Salmon cured in brine and then smoked in low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.
Liquid oxygen (molecular oxygen in liquid form).
lux
lux
noun
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To put out of joint; to luxate.
lxe
lxx
max
max
adj
(informal) Maximum; maximal.
noun
(informal) An extreme, a great extent.
(informal) Clipping of maximum.
(obsolete, slang) Gin.
verb
(usually with out) To reach the limit; to reach the maximum.
mdx
mex
mex
noun
(mathematics) The mex of a subset of a well-ordered set is the smallest value from the whole set that does not belong to the subset.
mix
mix
noun
(US, slang, uncountable) A substance used to dilute or adulterate an illicit drug.
(music) The finished version of a recording.
(music) The result of mixing several tracks.
The result of combining items normally kept separate.
The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
verb
(transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).
(transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
(transitive) To stir together.
(transitive, intransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.
(transitive, intransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
(transitive, music) To combine (several tracks).
(transitive, music) To produce a finished version of (a recording).
mlx
mmx
mtx
mtx
noun
Abbreviation of microtransaction.
mux
mux
noun
(obsolete) Dirt, filth or muck.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make a mess of something; to botch.
To multiplex.
mxd
mxu
nix
nix
adv
No! Not at all!
intj
(obsolete) A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.
noun
(colloquial) Nothing.
A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie.
verb
To destroy or eradicate.
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
nnx
nox
nox
noun
(rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)
Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
nxx
nyx
opx
oxo
oxo
noun
(chemistry, in combination) A substituent oxygen atom connected to another atom by a double bond.
The game of noughts and crosses.
oxy
oxy
noun
(chemistry) The bivalent R-O-R functional group found in ethers.
(countable, uncountable, slang, pharmacology) Clipping of oxycodone, an opioid similar to heroin.
(informal) Clipping of oxyacetylene, a mixture of oxygen and acetylene used for cutting and welding metals.
(informal) Clipping of oxygen.
pax
pax
intj
(UK, dated, school slang) A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
noun
(Britain, dated, school slang) Friendship; truce.
(Christianity) A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.
(Christianity) A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
(Christianity) The kiss of peace.
(Singapore, by extension) A restaurant guest, when counting. Person.
(informal, usually in the plural) A passenger; passengers.
(informal, usually in the plural, by extension, hospitality industry) A guest (at an event or function).
pbx
pex
pfx
pfx
noun
Abbreviation of prefix.
pix
pix
noun
(informal) plural of pic (“picture”)
(specifically) Motion pictures; movies.
Obsolete spelling of pyx
pmx
pox
pox
noun
(figurative) A curse.
A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
Syphilis.
verb
(transitive, dated) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
pyx
pyx
noun
(Christianity, also figurative) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
(by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
(chiefly Britain) A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
(nautical, obsolete, rare) A compass used by sailors.
verb
(chiefly Britain) To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.
(figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
(obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.
rax
rax
noun
(video game slang) barracks
verb
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch oneself; reach for or try to obtain something
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
(UK, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.
rdx
rex
rex
noun
An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.
rix
rox
rox
verb
(slang, informal) Alternative spelling of rocks (“in sense of excelling, being great”)
rux
rux
noun
(nautical slang, dated) A noisy disturbance or commotion.
sax
sax
noun
(obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.
A slate-cutter’s hammer; slate-ax.
Clipping of saxophone.
verb
(transitive, Britain dialectal) To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.
scx
sex
sex
noun
(countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
(countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
(countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
(countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina.
(obsolete or literary, uncountable, with "the") Women; the human female gender and those who belong to it.
(obsolete) Alternative form of sect.
(uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
(uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
verb
(chiefly US, colloquial, intransitive) To have sex.
(chiefly US, colloquial, transitive) To have sex with.
(zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of (an animal).
six
six
noun
(American football) A touchdown.
(cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
(military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
(obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
A group or set with six elements.
The digit or figure 6.
num
A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This many dots: (••••••).
sox
sox
noun
(informal) plural of sock (footwear)
sxs
tax
tax
noun
(figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
(obsolete) charge; censure
A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
verb
(transitive) To accuse.
(transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
(transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
(transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
(transitive) To make excessive demands on.
tex
tex
noun
A milligram per meter, a unit of linear mass density for thread or fiber.
tfx
thx
thx
intj
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of thanks.
tox
tox
adj
(medicine, informal) Affected by toxin; intoxicated; toxicological.
noun
(informal) Clipping of toxicology.
(medicine, informal) Clipping of toxicity.
tux
tux
noun
(colloquial) Clipping of tuxedo.
twx
txt
txt
noun
(text messaging) text, text message
verb
(transitive, intransitive, text messaging) To text; to send a text message (to).
vax
vax
noun
(slang) Clipping of vaccination.
(slang) Clipping of vaccine.
verb
(slang) To vaccinate.
vex
vex
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) A trouble.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
(transitive) To annoy, irritate.
(transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
(transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
(transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
(transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
vox
vox
noun
(broadcasting, informal) Ellipsis of vox pop.
(music, uncommon) The voice, especially one's singing voice; vocals.
vsx
vxi
wax
wax
adj
Made of wax.
noun
(US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
(US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
(dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
(rare) The process of growing.
(uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
Beeswax.
Earwax.
verb
(intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
(intransitive, literary) To grow.
(intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
(intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
(transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
(transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
(transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
(transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
xat
xat
noun
A carved pole erected as a memorial to the dead by some Native Americans of Western North America.
xbt
xcf
xcl
xdr
xed
xfe
xid
xie
xii
xim
xis
xis
noun
plural of xi
xiv
xix
xmi
xmm
xms
xns
xor
xor
conj
(rare) Or (but not both).
noun
The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.
xpg
xrm
xtc
xty
xui
xuv
xvi
xxi
xxv
xxx
xxx
noun
An abbreviation for kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter or text message, often alongside ooo (hugs).
xyz
xyz
Noun
The color space of the tristimulus values X, Y, and Z.
yox
zax
zax
noun
A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.