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6-letter words containing x, s

  • sextan — (of a fever) characterized by paroxysms that recurevery sixth day.
  • sexted — a sexually explicit digital image, text message, etc., sent to someone usually by cell phone.
  • sextet — any group or set of six.
  • sextic — of the sixth degree.
  • sexton — Anne (Harvey) 1928–74, U.S. poet.
  • sexual — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
  • shanxi — a province in N China. 60,656 sq. mi. (157,099 sq. km). Capital: Taiyuan.
  • silvex — a herbicide that eradicates weeds and woody plants
  • sixain — a stanza or poem of six lines
  • sixish — around six years in age
  • sixtus — (Felice Peretti) 1521–90, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1585–90.
  • skybox — a private compartment, usually near the top of a stadium, for viewing a sports contest.
  • 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.
  • spadix — an inflorescence consisting of a spike with a fleshy or thickened axis, usually enclosed in a spathe.
  • sphinx — a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. (usually initial capital letter) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza.
  • sphynx — a breed of medium-sized hairless cat with large ears and a long whiplike tail
  • storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • styrax — any tropical or subtropical tree of the genus Styrax, which includes the storaxes
  • subfix — subscript (def 4).
  • suffix — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
  • suplex — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler grasps his opponent round the waist from behind and carries him backwards
  • surtax — an additional or extra tax on something already taxed.
  • sussex — a former county in SE England: divided into East Sussex and West Sussex.
  • syntax — Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
  • syrinx — Ornithology. the vocal organ of birds, situated at or near the bifurcation of the trachea into the bronchi.
  • taxies — a taxicab.
  • toxins — any poison produced by an organism, characterized by antigenicity in certain animals and high molecular weight, and including the bacterial toxins that are the causative agents of tetanus, diphtheria, etc., and such plant and animal toxins as ricin and snake venom.
  • unisex — of, designed, or suitable for both sexes; not distinguishing between male and female; undifferentiated as to sex: unisex clothes.
  • unsexy — concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.
  • usenix — (body)   Since 1975, the USENIX Association has provided a forum for the communication of the results of innovation and research in Unix and modern open systems. It is well known for its technical conferences, tutorial programs, and the wide variety of publications it has sponsored over the years. USENIX is the original not-for-profit membership organisation for individuals and institutions interested in Unix and Unix-like systems, by extension, X, object-oriented technology, and other advanced tools and technologies, and the broad interconnected and interoperable computing environment. USENIX's activities include an annual technical conference; frequent specific-topic conferences and symposia; a highly regarded tutorial program covering a wide range of topics, introductory through advanced; numerous publications, including a book series, in cooperation with The MIT Press, on advanced computing systems, proceedings from USENIX symposia and conferences, the quarterly journal "Computing Systems", and the biweekly newsletter; "login: "; participation in various ANSI, IEEE and ISO standards efforts; sponsorship of local and special technical groups relevant to Unix. The chartering of SAGE, the System Administrators Guild as a Special Technical Group within USENIX is the most recent.
  • vaxset — A set of software development tools from DEC, including a language-sensitive editor, compilers etc.
  • wessex — (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester.
  • x-axis — Also called axis of abscissas. (in a plane Cartesian coordinate system) the axis, usually horizontal, along which the abscissa is measured and from which the ordinate is measured.
  • xebecs — Plural form of xebec.
  • xemacs — (text, tool)   (Originally "Lucid Emacs") A text editor for the X Window System, based on GNU Emacs version 19, produced by a collaboration of Lucid, Inc., SunPro (a division of Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and the University of Illinois. Lucid chose to build part of Energize, their C/C++ development environment on top of GNU Emacs. Though their product is commercial, the work on GNU Emacs is free software, and is useful without having to purchase the product. They needed a version of Emacs with mouse-sensitive regions, multiple fonts, the ability to mark sections of a buffer as read-only, the ability to detect which parts of a buffer has been modified, and many other features. The existing version of Epoch was not sufficient; it did not allow arbitrary pixmaps and icons in buffers, "undo" did not restore changes to regions, regions did not overlap and merge their attributes. Lucid spent some time in 1990 working on Epoch but later decided that their efforts would be better spent improving Emacs 19 instead. Lucid did not have time to get their changes accepted by the FSF so they released Lucid Emacs as a forked branch of Emacs. Roughly a year after Lucid Emacs 19.0 was released, a beta version of the FSF branch of Emacs 19 was released. Lucid continued to develop and support Lucid Emacs, merging in bug fixes and new features from the FSF branch as appropriate. A compatibility package was planned to allow Epoch 4 code to run in Lemacs with little or no change. (As of 19.8, Lucid Emacs ran a descendant of the Epoch redisplay engine.)
  • xerxes — 519?–465 b.c, king of Persia 486?–465 (son of Darius I).
  • xiphos — A double-edged, single-handed sword used by the Ancient Greeks as a secondary weapon after the spear or javelin.
  • xuthus — a son of Hellen, regarded as an ancestor of the Ionian Greeks through his son Ion
  • xylose — A sugar of the pentose class that occurs widely in plants, especially as a component of hemicelluloses.
  • xyster — A surgical instrument used to scrape bones.
  • xystus — (in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.
  • y-axis — Also called axis of ordinates. (in a plane Cartesian coordinate system) the axis, usually vertical, along which the ordinate is measured and from which the abscissa is measured.
  • z-axis — (in a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system) the axis along which values of z are measured and at which both x and y equal zero.
  • zeuxis — flourished c430–c400 b.c, Greek painter.
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