5-letter words containing x, s
- sexer — a person trained to determine the sex of an animal, usually chickens
- sexes — either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
- sexi- — sex-
- silex — flint; silica.
- sioux — Dakota (defs 4, 6).
- sixer — a cardinal number, five plus one.
- sixmo — a book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper into six leaves or twelve pages, each one sixth the size of the sheet
- sixte — the sixth of eight defensive positions.
- sixth — next after the fifth; being the ordinal number for six.
- sixty — a cardinal number, ten times six.
- sorex — a shrew or related animal
- taxes — a plural of taxi.
- taxis — arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.
- taxus — a member of a genus of coniferous trees of the yew family Taxaceae
- texas — a state in the S United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviation: Tex., TX (for use with zip code).
- unsex — to deprive of sexual power; render impotent or frigid; spay or castrate.
- v-six — a six-cylinder V-engine.
- vexes — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- waxes — Plural form of wax.
- xbase — Generic term for the dBASE family of database languages. Coined in response to threatened litigation over use of the copyrighted trademark "dBASE."
- xeres — former name of Jerez.
- xerus — an African ground squirrel of the genus Xerus, having spiny fur, very short ears, and a long tail, and including the species X. rutilus of northeastern Africa and X. erythropus of western and central Africa.
- xhosa — a member of a Nguni people of eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.
- xysti — Plural form of xystus.
- zaxes — a hatchetlike tool for cutting and punching nail holes in roofing slate.