An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.
An addition, an extension.
An appendix to a book or document.
verb
(intransitive) To join; to be united.
To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.
To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
axine
axmen
axmen
noun
plural of axman
axone
axone
noun
Dated spelling of axon.
boxen
boxen
adj
Made of boxwood.
Resembling box (the wood).
noun
(nonstandard, humorous) plural of box (“computer”)
exaun
exhbn
exine
exine
noun
(botany, palynology) the outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium.
exing
exing
verb
present participle of ex
exion
exons
exons
noun
plural of exon
exton
exxon
exxon
Proper noun
A brand of petroleum fuel.
A former petrochemical company, now part of ExxonMobil.
faxen
index
index
noun
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
(sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
(typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
A sign; an indication; a token.
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
The index finger; the forefinger.
verb
(chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
(computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
(linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
(transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory; to take stock.
To measure by an associated value.
lenox
lenox
Proper noun
Any of a number of towns in the USA
mixen
mixen
noun
A compost heap; a dunghill.
nexal
nexal
adj
Relating to a nexus.
nexum
nexum
noun
A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
nexus
nexus
noun
(Ancient Rome, law, historical) A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.
(Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
(grammar) In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
A centre or focus of something.
A connected group; a network, a web.
A form or state of connection.
nixed
nixed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of nix
nixer
nixer
noun
(Ireland, slang) A job or income which is taken in addition to one's normal employment, generally at evenings or weekends. Originally implied that payment was not declared for taxation, but now refers to any work that is not part of one's regular job.
nixes
nixes
noun
nothing
plural of nixe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nix
nixie
nixie
noun
A female nix, a water-spirit.
A piece of mail returned as undeliverable.
nohex
noxen
nynex
oxane
oxane
noun
(organic chemistry) Tetrahydropyran.
rexen
saxen
senex
senex
noun
An older or old man.
texan
texon
unhex
unhex
verb
(transitive) To remove a hex or curse from.
unsex
unsex
verb
To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.
vixen
vixen
noun
(colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive.
(colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
A female fox.
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
waxen
waxen
adj
(UK, dialectal) Grown.
(rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
Made of wax; covered with wax.
Of or pertaining to wax.
verb
(archaic) alternative past participle of wax.
(obsolete) plural simple present of wax
xenia
xenia
noun
(botany) The effect that genes from pollen have on the endosperm.
(classical studies) The concept of hospitality to strangers.
plural of xenium
xenic
xenic
adj
(LGBT) Of or pertaining to xenogenders.
(biology, of a culture) Containing an unidentified organism, especially a bacterium.
(inorganic chemistry) Relating to xenic acid.
Strange or foreign in some way.
xenon
xenon
noun
The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.
xenos
xenyl
xenyl
noun
(organic chemistry, dated) The univalent radical derived from diphenyl