An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.
An addition, an extension.
An appendix to a book or document.
verb
(intransitive) To join; to be united.
To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.
To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
auxin
auxin
noun
(botany) A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.
axine
axing
axing
noun
An assault carried out with an axe.
verb
present participle of axe
axion
axion
noun
(physics) A hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to resolve certain symmetry problems concerning the strong nuclear force.
axman
axman
noun
Alternative spelling of axeman
axmen
axmen
noun
plural of axman
axone
axone
noun
Dated spelling of axon.
axons
axons
noun
plural of axon
axson
axton
axton
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
bixin
bixin
noun
(organic chemistry) An apocarotenoid that is the active ingredient of annatto.
boxen
boxen
adj
Made of boxwood.
Resembling box (the wood).
noun
(nonstandard, humorous) plural of box (“computer”)
bronx
bronx
Proper noun
A borough of New York City.
Noun
A cocktail containing gin, vermouth and orange juice.
caxon
caxon
noun
(obsolete) A kind of wig.
dixon
dixon
Proper noun
a city in Illinois, USA
a small home-rule class city in Kentucky, USA
donax
donax
noun
A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
exaun
exhbn
exine
exine
noun
(botany, palynology) the outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium.
exing
exing
verb
present participle of ex
exion
exons
exons
noun
plural of exon
exton
exxon
exxon
Proper noun
A brand of petroleum fuel.
A former petrochemical company, now part of ExxonMobil.
faxan
faxen
faxon
faxun
fixin
index
index
noun
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
(sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
(typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
A sign; an indication; a token.
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
The index finger; the forefinger.
verb
(chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
(computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
(linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
(transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory; to take stock.
To measure by an associated value.
infix
infix
noun
(linguistics) A morpheme inserted inside an existing word, such as -bloody- in English.
(linguistics, proscribed) A morpheme that always appears between other morphemes in a word, such as -i- and -o- in English (i.e. an interfix).
verb
(transitive) To instill.
(transitive, archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
(transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
ixion
juxon
lenox
lenox
Proper noun
Any of a number of towns in the USA
mixen
mixen
noun
A compost heap; a dunghill.
monax
naxos
naxos
Proper noun
An island in the center of the Cyclades
A town in Greece located on an homonymous island.
nexal
nexal
adj
Relating to a nexus.
nexum
nexum
noun
A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
nexus
nexus
noun
(Ancient Rome, law, historical) A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.
(Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
(grammar) In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
A centre or focus of something.
A connected group; a network, a web.
A form or state of connection.
ninox
nixed
nixed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of nix
nixer
nixer
noun
(Ireland, slang) A job or income which is taken in addition to one's normal employment, generally at evenings or weekends. Originally implied that payment was not declared for taxation, but now refers to any work that is not part of one's regular job.
nixes
nixes
noun
nothing
plural of nixe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nix
nixie
nixie
noun
A female nix, a water-spirit.
A piece of mail returned as undeliverable.
nixon
nixon
Noun
A low quality, low potency drug passed off as a powerful, pure drug.
nohex
noxal
noxal
adj
(law) Relating to wrongful injury.
noxen
noxon
nynex
nyxis
oxane
oxane
noun
(organic chemistry) Tetrahydropyran.
oxman
panax
panax
noun
(botany) Any plant of the genus Panax.
paxon
pinax
pinax
noun
(by extension) A list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
A tablet or register.
rexen
saxen
saxon
senex
senex
noun
An older or old man.
taxin
taxon
taxon
noun
(taxonomy) A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
texan
texon
toxin
toxin
noun
(usually proscribed) Synonym of toxicant: a toxic substance in a body requiring removal.
A toxic substance, specifically a poison produced by the biological processes of organisms.
toxon
unbox
unbox
verb
(transitive) To remove from a box.
(transitive, computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
unfix
unfix
verb
(transitive) To unfasten from a fixing.
unhex
unhex
verb
(transitive) To remove a hex or curse from.
unlax
unlax
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To relax.
unmix
unmix
verb
(informal, transitive) To separate the components of (a mixture).
unsex
unsex
verb
To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.
untax
untax
verb
(transitive) To remove a tax from.
unwax
unwax
verb
(transitive) To remove wax from.
vixen
vixen
noun
(colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive.
(colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
A female fox.
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
waxen
waxen
adj
(UK, dialectal) Grown.
(rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
Made of wax; covered with wax.
Of or pertaining to wax.
verb
(archaic) alternative past participle of wax.
(obsolete) plural simple present of wax
xenia
xenia
noun
(botany) The effect that genes from pollen have on the endosperm.
(classical studies) The concept of hospitality to strangers.
plural of xenium
xenic
xenic
adj
(LGBT) Of or pertaining to xenogenders.
(biology, of a culture) Containing an unidentified organism, especially a bacterium.
(inorganic chemistry) Relating to xenic acid.
Strange or foreign in some way.
xenon
xenon
noun
The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.
xenos
xenyl
xenyl
noun
(organic chemistry, dated) The univalent radical derived from diphenyl
xinca
xinca
Noun
A non-Mayan indigenous people of Mesoamerica with communities in the southern portion of Guatemala, near its border with El Salvador, and in the mountainous region to the north.
Proper noun
Their language, generally considered a language isolate.
xingu
xingu
Proper noun
A major river in Brazil that flows north into the Amazon delta.
Cultural reservation in central Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso.
Any of several indigenous tribes of Amerindian peoples who live in the Xingu reservation.
xoana
xoana
noun
plural of xoanon
xtian
xylan
xylan
noun
(biochemistry) A polysaccharide, consisting of xylose residues, found in the cell walls of some algae and plants.