5-letter words containing e, x
- helix — a spiral.
- hepix — A recently formed collaboration among various HEP institutes aiming at providing "compatible" versions of the Unix operating system at their sites.
- hexa- — six
- hexad — the number six.
- hexed — to bewitch; practice witchcraft on: He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
- hexer — hexagonal: a bolt with a matching washer and hex nut.
- hexes — Plural form of hex.
- hexit — (jargon) /hek'sit/ A hexadecimal digit (0-9, and A-F or a-f). Used by people who claim that there are only *ten* digits, sixteen-fingered human beings being rather rare, despite what some keyboard designs might seem to imply (see space-cadet keyboard).
- hexon — (biology, biochemistry) Any small biological structure that has hexagonal symmetry.
- hexyl — containing a hexyl group.
- hoxie — Vinnie Ream [reem] /rim/ (Show IPA), 1847–1914, U.S. sculptor.
- impex — (business,in company names) import and export.
- index — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- ixtle — istle.
- kexes — the dry, usually hollow stem or stalk of various plants, especially of large plants belonging to the parsley family, as cow parsnip or wild chervil.
- latex — a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.
- laxed — (phonetics) Of a vowel: made lax.
- laxer — Comparative form of lax.
- lenox — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- leo x — (Giovanni de'Medici) 1475–1521, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1513–21 (son of Lorenzo de'Medici).
- lexan — a polycarbonate resin, used in molded products, as a substitute for glass, etc.
- lexer — lexical analyser
- lexie — (literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.
- lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
- lzexe — An executable file compression utility for MS-DOS. It adds a minimal header to the executable to decompress it when it is executed. See also pklite.
- maxed — Reach or cause to reach the limit of capacity or ability.
- maxer — maximum.
- maxes — a male given name, form of Maximilian.
- memex — (hypertext) Vannevar Bush's original name for hypertext, which he invented in the 1930s.
- mexsp — Mexican Spanish
- mirex — A synthetic insecticide of the organochlorine type used chiefly against ants.
- mixed — put together or formed by mixing.
- mixel — (geographical sciences) In field-based conceptualisation, a raster cell which indicates elements of mixed or multiple land cover categories.
- mixen — a pile of dung
- mixer — a person or thing that mixes.
- mixes — Plural form of mix.
- mixte — (mostly, attributive) A kind of bicycle frame where the top tube of the traditional diamond frame is replaced with a pair of smaller lateral tubes running from the top of the head tube all the way back to the rear axle, connecting at the seat tube on the way.
- moxie — vigor; verve; pep.
- murex — any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- mutex — (tool, music) An extension of TeX for typesetting music.
- muxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mux.
- net:x — (company) A Canadian company. Not to be confused with NetX.
- nexor — (company) A technology company that specialises in providing electronic communication software products and services to a worldwide market. It is also the home of CUSI.
- nexum — 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 — a means of connection; tie; link.
- nirex — Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive
- nixed — nothing.
- nixer — (Irish, 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 — nothing.