| admix | (verb) mix or mingle | - |
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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| (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 | - |
| 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 |
| inheritrix | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritress |
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| intermix | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermingle |
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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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| (verb) attach a suffix to | - |
| 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 |
| transfix | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, impale, spike |
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| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, spellbind |
| 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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| xix | (adjective) being one more than eighteen | Synonyms: 19, nineteen |
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| xxix | (adjective) being nine more than twenty | Synonyms: 29, twenty-nine |
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