| admix | (verb) mix or mingle | - |
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| admixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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| (noun) an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base | Synonyms: intermixture |
| (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: alloy |
| affix | (noun) a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form | - |
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| (verb) stick or fasten to | Synonyms: stick on |
| (verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, append, supplement |
| (verb) attach or become attached to a stem word | - |
| affixal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixial |
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| affixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of an affix | - |
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| (noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: attachment |
| (noun) the result of adding an affix to a root word | - |
| affixed | (adjective) firmly attached | - |
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| affixial | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixal |
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| amphimixis | (noun) union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction | - |
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| (noun) reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete | Synonyms: sexual reproduction |
| antefix | (noun) carved ornament at the eaves of a tile roof concealing the joints between tiles | - |
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| apomixis | (noun) any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization | - |
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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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| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| betwixt | (adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: between |
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| bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| cacomixle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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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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| commix | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, mingle, mix, unify |
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| commixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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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 |
| crucifixion | (noun) the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross | - |
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| (noun) the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | Synonyms: excruciation |
| cylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: kylix |
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| deixis | (noun) the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs | - |
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| dixie | (noun) a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used in military camps | - |
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| dominatrix | (noun) a dominating woman (especially one who plays that role in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship) | - |
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| elixir | (noun) a substance believed to cure all ills | - |
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| (noun) a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste | - |
| (noun) hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold | Synonyms: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone |
| epixylon | (noun) organisms that are attached to submerged wood surfaces in aquatic ecosystems. | - |
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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 |
| (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
| (verb) make fixed, stable or stationary | Synonyms: fixate |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| (verb) kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study | - |
| (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) take vengeance on or get even | Synonyms: get, pay back, pay off |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, secure |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, posit, situate |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) set or place definitely | - |
| (verb) to be about to do something | - |
| (verb) influence an event or its outcome by illegal means | - |
| fixate | (verb) become fixed (on) | Synonyms: settle on |
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| (verb) make fixed, stable or stationary | Synonyms: fix |
| (verb) pay attention to exclusively and obsessively | - |
| (verb) attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way | - |
| fixation | (noun) (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body | Synonyms: fixing |
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| (noun) the activity of fastening something firmly in position | - |
| (noun) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone | Synonyms: obsession |
| (noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, infantile fixation, regression |
| fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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| (noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
| fixed | (adjective) securely placed or fastened or set | - |
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| (adjective) (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value | - |
| (adjective) fixed and unmoving | Synonyms: rigid, set |
| (adjective) incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices" | Synonyms: frozen |
| fixedly | (adverb) in a fixed manner | - |
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| fixedness | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixity, fixture, secureness |
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| (noun) the quality of being fixed and unchangeable | Synonyms: unalterability |
| (noun) remaining in place | Synonyms: immobility, stationariness |
| fixer | (noun) synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction | Synonyms: dolophine hydrochloride, methadon, methadone, methadone hydrochloride, synthetic heroin |
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| (noun) someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee) | Synonyms: influence peddler |
| (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: mender, repairer |
| (noun) a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image) | Synonyms: fixing agent |
| fixing | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: altering, neutering |
| (noun) (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body | Synonyms: fixation |
| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fastening, holdfast |
| fixings | (noun) the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity) | Synonyms: trimmings |
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| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: ingredient |
| fixity | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness |
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| (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: immutability, immutableness |
| fixture | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, secureness |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: habitue, regular |
| 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 |
| immix | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, meld, merge, mix |
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| infix | (noun) an affix that is inserted inside the word | - |
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| (verb) attach a morpheme into a stem word | - |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, insert, introduce |
| infliximab | (noun) an anti-TNF compound (trade name Remicade) consisting of an antibody directed against TNF; it is given intravenously at one-month to three-month intervals; used in treatment of regional enteritis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: Remicade |
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| (noun) a monoclonal antibody (trade name Remicade) used to treat Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis; administered by infusion; use and dosage must be determined by a physician | Synonyms: Remicade |
| inheritrix | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritress |
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| interfixation | (noun) derivation of a new word by inserting an interfix between two morphemes. | - |
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| intermix | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermingle |
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| intermixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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| (noun) an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base | Synonyms: admixture |
| (noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: concoction, mixture |
| ipsedixitism | (noun) an unsupported dogmatic assertion | Synonyms: ipse dixit |
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| ix | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten | Synonyms: 9, nine |
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| ixc | (adjective) being nine more than eighty | Synonyms: 89, eighty-nine |
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| ixl | (adjective) being nine more than thirty | Synonyms: 39, thirty-nine |
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| ixodid | (noun) ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head | Synonyms: hard tick |
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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 |
| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge |
| (verb) add as an additional element or part | Synonyms: mix in |
| (verb) combine (electronic signals) | - |
| (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mingle, unify |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: ruffle, shuffle |
| (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: desegregate, integrate |
| mixable | (adjective) (chemistry, physics) capable of being mixed | Synonyms: miscible |
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| mixed | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, motley, sundry |
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| (adjective) involving or composed of different races | Synonyms: interracial |
| mixer | (noun) a kitchen utensil that is used for mixing foods | - |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that mixes two or more input signals to give a single output signal | - |
| (noun) club soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol | - |
| (noun) a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity | Synonyms: sociable, social |
| mixing | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixture |
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| mixologist | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, bartender |
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| mixology | (noun) skill in preparing mixed drinks | - |
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| mixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing |
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| (noun) an event that combines things in a mixture | Synonyms: mix |
| (noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: concoction, intermixture |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding) | - |
| 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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| (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
| 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 |
| pixel | (noun) (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot) | Synonyms: pel, picture element |
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| pixie | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixy |
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| (noun) creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas | Synonyms: pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie |
| pixilated | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, prankish, puckish, wicked |
| pixy | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie |
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| (noun) creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas | Synonyms: pixie, Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie |
| 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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| (verb) attach a prefix to | - |
| prefixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of a prefix | - |
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| premix | (noun) a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients | Synonyms: mix |
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| prolix | (adjective) tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length | Synonyms: verbal |
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| prolixity | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixness, windiness, wordiness |
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| prolixness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, windiness, wordiness |
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| quixotic | (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: romantic, wild-eyed |
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| quixotically | (adverb) in a quixotic manner | - |
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| quixotism | (noun) quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior | Synonyms: knight errantry |
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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 | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units | Synonyms: 6, half-dozen, half dozen, vi |
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| (noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips | Synonyms: six-spot |
| (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 |
| sixer | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, VI |
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| sixfold | (adjective) having six units or components | Synonyms: sextuple, six-fold |
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| (adverb) by a factor of six | Synonyms: six times |
| sixpack | (noun) a carton containing six bottles or cans | Synonyms: six-pack, six pack |
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| sixpence | (noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: tanner |
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| sixpenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| sixsome | (noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| sixteen | (adjective) being one more than fifteen | Synonyms: 16, xvi |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one | Synonyms: 16, XVI |
| sixteenth | (adjective) coming next after the fifteenth in position | Synonyms: 16th |
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| (noun) one part in sixteen equal parts | Synonyms: one-sixteenth, sixteenth part |
| (noun) position 16 in a countable series of things | - |
| sixth | (adjective) coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position | Synonyms: 6th |
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| (noun) the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it | - |
| (noun) one part in six equal parts | Synonyms: one-sixth |
| (noun) position six in a countable series of things | - |
| sixthly | (adverb) in the sixth place | - |
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| sixties | (noun) the time of life between 60 and 70 | Synonyms: mid-sixties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1960 to 1969 | Synonyms: 1960s |
| sixtieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of sixty in counting order | Synonyms: 60th |
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| (noun) one part in sixty equal parts | Synonyms: one-sixtieth |
| (noun) position 60 in a countable series of things | - |
| sixty | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, lx, threescore |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six | Synonyms: 60, LX |