6-letter words containing x, l
- pollux — Greek Polydeuces. Classical Mythology. the brother of Castor. Compare Castor and Pollux.
- prolix — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
- reflex — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reflux — a flowing back; ebb.
- saxaul — an Asian shrub with spongy bark and small leaves, Holoxylon Ammodendron
- scolex — the anterior, headlike segment of a tapeworm, having suckers, hooks, or the like, for attachment.
- sexily — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
- sexual — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- silvex — a herbicide that eradicates weeds and woody plants
- smilax — any plant belonging to the genus Smilax, of the lily family, growing in tropical and temperate zones, consisting mostly of vines having woody stems.
- suplex — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler grasps his opponent round the waist from behind and carries him backwards
- taxila — an archaeological site near Rawalpindi, Pakistan: ruins of three successive cities on the same site, dating from about the 7th century b.c. to about the 7th century a.d.; Buddhist center.
- tuxtla — city in Chiapas state, SE Mexico: pop. 296,000
- ultrix — (operating system) A version of Unix based on the Berkeley version, designed and implemented by DEC to run on their VAX and DECstation processors.
- volvox — any colonial, freshwater green algae of the genus Volvox, forming a hollow, greenish sphere of flagellated cells.
- waxily — In a waxy way.
- wilcox — Ella Wheeler, 1850–1919, U.S. poet.
- wraxle — to wrestle
- x-line — mean line.
- 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.
- xenial — the influence or effect of pollen on a structure other than the embryo, as the seed or fruit.
- 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.