affix | (noun) a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form | - |
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antefix | (noun) carved ornament at the eaves of a tile roof concealing the joints between tiles | - |
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appendix | (noun) a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch | Synonyms: cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process |
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(noun) supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book | - |
aviatrix | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatress |
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cervix | (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: neck |
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(noun) necklike opening to the uterus | Synonyms: cervix uteri, uterine cervix |
cicatrix | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, scar |
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crucifix | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally | - |
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(noun) representation of the cross on which Jesus died | Synonyms: rood-tree, rood |
cylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: kylix |
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dominatrix | (noun) a dominating woman (especially one who plays that role in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship) | - |
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executrix | (noun) a woman executor | - |
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fix | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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(noun) an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear | - |
(noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: localisation, localization, locating, location |
(noun) something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug | - |
(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle |
fornix | (noun) an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies | Synonyms: trigonum cerebrale |
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(noun) generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space) | - |
helix | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, spiral, volute, whorl |
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(noun) a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle | Synonyms: spiral |
infix | (noun) an affix that is inserted inside the word | - |
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inheritrix | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritress |
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kylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: cylix |
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matrix | (noun) mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface | - |
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(noun) the formative tissue at the base of a nail | - |
(noun) the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded | Synonyms: ground substance, intercellular substance |
(noun) (mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules | - |
(noun) an enclosure within which something originates or develops | - |
(noun) (geology) a mass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded | - |
mediatrix | (noun) a woman who is a mediator | - |
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mix | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mixing, mixture |
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(noun) an event that combines things in a mixture | Synonyms: mixture |
(noun) a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients | Synonyms: premix |
negotiatrix | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatress |
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nix | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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phoenix | (noun) a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years | - |
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(noun) a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa | Synonyms: genus Phoenix |
pix | (noun) any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept | Synonyms: pyx |
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(noun) a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay | Synonyms: pix chest, pyx, pyx chest |
postfix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: suffix |
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prefix | (noun) an affix that is added in front of the word | - |
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premix | (noun) a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients | Synonyms: mix |
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radix | (noun) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place | Synonyms: base |
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separatrix | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule |
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six | (noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips | Synonyms: six-spot |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise, sixer, VI |
spadix | (noun) the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe | - |
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suffix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: postfix |
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testatrix | (noun) a female testator | - |
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tortrix | (noun) small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants | Synonyms: Homona coffearia, tea tortrix |
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(noun) California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges | Synonyms: Argyrotaenia citrana, orange tortrix |
varix | (noun) abnormally enlarged or twisted blood vessel or lymphatic vessel | - |
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vernix | (noun) a white cheeselike protective material that covers the skin of a fetus | Synonyms: vernix caseosa |
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