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7-letter words containing x, r

  • grawlix — A spiral-shaped graphic used to indicate swearing in comic strips.
  • hendrix — Jimi [jim-ee] /ˈdʒɪm i/ (Show IPA), 1942–70, U.S. rock guitarist and songwriter.
  • hexamer — An oligomer having six subunits.
  • hexarch — (of a plant) having six veins in the vascular tissue
  • hexerei — witchcraft
  • hoaxers — Plural form of hoaxer.
  • hoaxter — Alternative spelling of hoaxer.
  • hydroxo — (chemistry, in combination) A hydroxy group as a substituent in a molecule.
  • hydroxy — containing the hydroxyl group.
  • hyraxes — Plural form of hyrax.
  • indexer — (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.
  • kremvax — /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West.
  • laxator — (anatomy) A muscle whose contraction loosens some part.
  • malraux — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, French novelist, critic, and politician.
  • margaux — a red wine produced in the region around the village of Margaux near Bordeaux
  • martext — a preacher who makes many mistakes
  • marxian — of or relating to Karl Marx or his theories.
  • marxism — the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society.
  • marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.
  • mixture — a product of mixing.
  • murexes — Plural form of murex.
  • narthex — an enclosed passage between the main entrance and the nave of a church.
  • oratrix — a woman who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence.
  • overlax — too lax
  • overmix — to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
  • overtax — to tax too heavily.
  • oxfords — a pair of stout laced shoes with low heels
  • oxheart — any large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry.
  • oxymora — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
  • paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
  • peroxy- — indicating the presence of the peroxide group, -O–O-
  • perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
  • perspex — acrylic material: artificial glass
  • pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.
  • phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
  • pinxter — Whitsuntide.
  • plexure — the act of weaving together or something which has been interwoven
  • poorbox — a box, esp one in a church, used for the collection of alms or money for the poor
  • pre-tax — profits, etc.: before tax
  • pretext — something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse: The leaders used the insults as a pretext to declare war.
  • pre\box — (computer)   Phase 5's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card, as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram. It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software. Other features include EIDE, Ultra Wide SCSI-II, PCI, Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower. Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
  • princox — a self-confident young fellow; coxcomb.
  • proxima — a flare star in the constellation Centaurus that is the nearest star to the sun. It is a red dwarf of very low magnitude. Distance: 4.3 light years
  • proximo — in, of, or during the next month: on the 10th proximo. Compare instant (def 11), ultimo.
  • pyrexia — fever.
  • rama ix — (Phumiphon Aduldet; Bhumibol Adulyadej) born 1927, king of Thailand since 1946.
  • reaffix — to affix (something) again
  • reannex — to annex (something) again
  • rectrix — one of the tail feathers of a bird controlling direction during flight.
  • red box — (in Britain) a box, typically covered in red leather, used to transport the official documents of a government minister
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