(obsolete, UK, Scotland) A baker; originally, a female baker.
boxcar
boxcar
noun
(rail transport, US) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
verb
(mathematics, transitive) To reduce to a boxcar function.
caranx
caranx
noun
(zoology) Any member of the fish genus Caranx; a jacks, trevallies, or kingfishes.
carfax
carfax
noun
A junction of four roads.
The main intersection in a town.
caxiri
caxiri
noun
An intoxicating drink prepared from grated manioc, consumed in some Native American cultures.
coaxer
coaxer
noun
A person who coaxes
cordax
cordax
noun
(historical) A lascivious dance featuring in Ancient Greek comedy.
corixa
darnex
darnix
dextra
dropax
earwax
earwax
noun
(medicine, pathology) A waxy substance secreted by the ear.
exarch
exarch
noun
(historical) In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.
In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.
exedra
exedra
noun
(architecture) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion.
(by extension) A curved bench with a high back.
extras
extras
noun
plural of extra
fornax
fraxin
fraxin
noun
(organic chemistry) A colourless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It is faintly fluorescent in alkaline solutions.
hexdra
hoaxer
hoaxer
noun
Someone who perpetrates hoaxes.
ixoras
ixoras
noun
plural of ixora
kordax
larnax
larnax
noun
(archaeology, historical) A small closed coffin, box or cinerary urn often used as a container for human remains in Ancient Greece.
larnyx
larynx
larynx
noun
(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, because it houses the vocal cords, sound production.
Meronyms: epilarynx, hypolarynx, orolarynx
luxora
marmax
matrix
matrix
noun
(analytical chemistry) The environment from which a given sample is taken.
(archaeology and paleontology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
(biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
(biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
(biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
(biology) The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
(computing) A two-dimensional array.
(dyeing) The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
(electronics) A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
(geology) A geological matrix.
(material science) A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
(mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
(now rare) The womb.
(printing, historical) In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
(printing, historical) In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
(slang, figurative) a term describing a controlled environment or situation in which people act or behave in ways that conform to roles pre-determined by a powerful person(s) who decides how the world is supposed to function (as if the world is but virtual reality and people but brains in a vat).
A table of data.
The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
meraux
natrix
naxera
nexrad
oxcart
oxcart
noun
A cart designed to be drawn by an ox or oxen.
oxnard
oxnard
Proper noun
A city in southern California, United States.
patrix
patrix
noun
A pattern or die used to manufacture a matrix
praxes
praxes
noun
plural of praxis
praxis
praxis
noun
(drama) The deliberate action of a rational being.
(philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
Custom or established practice.
The practical application of any branch of learning.
pretax
pretax
adj
Before the payment of taxes.
verb
To tax before the action being taxed occurs.
protax
raxing
raxing
verb
present participle of rax
rexana
rexane
rhexia
rhexia
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Rhexia of plants in the family Melastomataceae.
roxana
roxana
Proper noun
The wife of Alexander the Great.
roxane
roxane
Proper noun
name borrowed from the form of Roxana.
sextar
storax
storax
noun
Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs.
The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.
styrax
styrax
noun
Any member of the genus Styrax of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees, mostly native to temperate or tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
surtax
surtax
noun
(law) An additional or extra tax.
verb
(transitive) To impose a surtax upon.
tarbox
taxers
taxers
noun
plural of taxer
thorax
thorax
noun
(anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.
(entomology and arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.
travax
waxers
waxers
noun
plural of waxer
waxier
waxier
adj
comparative form of waxy: more waxy
waxler
wraxle
xarque
xarque
noun
Archaic form of jerky.
xavier
xavier
Proper noun
found chiefly among people of Spanish and Portuguese descent.