| immix | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, meld, merge, mix |
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| index | (noun) the finger next to the thumb | Synonyms: forefinger, index finger |
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| (noun) an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed | - |
| (noun) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time | Synonyms: index number, indicant, indicator |
| (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: exponent, power |
| (noun) a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number | - |
| (verb) adjust through indexation | - |
| (verb) provide with an index | - |
| (verb) list in an index | - |
| 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 |
| influx | (noun) the process of flowing in | Synonyms: inflow |
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| 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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| intersex | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite |
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| isolex | (noun) an isogloss marking off the area in which a particular item of vocabulary is found. | - |
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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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| jinx | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, whammy |
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| (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jonah |
| (verb) foredoom to failure | - |
| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, witch |
| jukebox | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: nickelodeon |
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| kylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: cylix |
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| laryngopharynx | (noun) the lower part of the pharynx | - |
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| larynx | (noun) a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech | Synonyms: voice box |
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| latex | (noun) a water-base paint that has a latex binder | Synonyms: latex paint, rubber-base paint |
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| (noun) a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air | - |
| lax | (adjective) lacking in firmness or tension; not taut | - |
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| (adjective) pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet') | - |
| (adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness | Synonyms: slack |
| (adjective) emptying easily or excessively | Synonyms: loose |
| lockbox | (noun) a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables | Synonyms: deposit box, safe-deposit, safe-deposit box, safety-deposit, safety deposit box |
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| lox | (noun) brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked | - |
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| lummox | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| lux | (noun) a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle | Synonyms: lx |
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| lx | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, sixty, threescore |
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| (noun) a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle | Synonyms: lux |
| lxx | (adjective) being ten more than sixty | Synonyms: 70, seventy |
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| lxxx | (adjective) being ten more than seventy | Synonyms: 80, eighty, fourscore |
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| lynx | (noun) short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur | Synonyms: catamount |
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| (noun) a text browser | - |
| mailbox | (noun) a private box for delivery of mail | Synonyms: letter box |
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| (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, postbox |
| matchbox | (noun) a box for holding matches | - |
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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 | - |
| max | (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, scoop, soap |
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| mediatrix | (noun) a woman who is a mediator | - |
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| meninx | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninges |
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| minx | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper |
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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 |
| multiplex | (adjective) having many parts or aspects | - |
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| (adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms | Synonyms: manifold |
| (noun) a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building | - |
| (noun) communicates two or more signals over a common channel | - |
| narthex | (noun) a vestibule leading to the nave of a church | - |
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| (noun) portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church | - |
| nasopharynx | (noun) cavity forming the upper part of the pharynx | - |
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| negotiatrix | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatress |
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| neocortex | (noun) the cortical part of the neencephalon | Synonyms: neopallium |
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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 |
| onyx | (noun) a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos | - |
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| opopanax | (noun) an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines | - |
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| oropharynx | (noun) cavity formed by the pharynx at the back of the mouth | - |
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| orthodox | (adjective) adhering to what is commonly accepted | - |
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| oryx | (noun) large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | Synonyms: pasang |
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| outfox | (verb) outdo someone in trickery | - |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| overtax | (verb) tax excessively | - |
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| ox | (noun) any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos | Synonyms: wild ox |
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| (noun) an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus | - |
| paintbox | (noun) a box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint | - |
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| paleocortex | (noun) the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: archipallium |
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| paradox | (noun) (logic) a statement that contradicts itself | - |
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| parallax | (noun) the apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object | - |
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| pax | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist | Synonyms: kiss of peace |
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| perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| phalanx | (noun) any of the bones of the fingers or toes | - |
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| (noun) a body of troops in close array | - |
| (noun) any closely ranked crowd of people | - |
| pharynx | (noun) the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone | Synonyms: throat |
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| phlox | (noun) any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers | - |
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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 |
| pickax | (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pick, pickaxe |
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| pillbox | (noun) a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete) | - |
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| (noun) a small case for holding pills | - |
| (noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: toque, turban |
| 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 |
| planoconvex | (adjective) flat on one side and convex on the other | - |
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| playbox | (noun) a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school) | Synonyms: play-box |
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| pneumothorax | (noun) abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis) | - |
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| poleax | (noun) a battle ax used in the Middle Ages; a long handled ax and a pick | Synonyms: poleaxe |
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| (noun) an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade | Synonyms: poleaxe |
| (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleaxe |
| pollex | (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: thumb |
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| pontifex | (noun) a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome | - |
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| postbox | (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, mailbox |
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| postfix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: suffix |
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| pox | (noun) a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks | - |
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| (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, syph, syphilis |
| 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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| prothorax | (noun) the anterior part of an insect's thorax; bears the first pair of legs | - |
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| prox | (adjective) in or of the next month after the present | Synonyms: proximo |
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| pseudosmallpox | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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| pyx | (noun) any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept | Synonyms: pix |
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| (noun) a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay | Synonyms: pix, pix chest, pyx chest |
| quadruplex | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate |
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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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| rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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| redox | (noun) a reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction | Synonyms: oxidation-reduction, oxidoreduction |
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| redux | (adjective) brought back | - |
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| reflex | (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: automatic, reflexive |
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| (noun) an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Synonyms: inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex |
| reflux | (noun) the outward flow of the tide | Synonyms: ebb |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward flow of body fluids | - |
| relax | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, loosen |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: slack, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner | Synonyms: loosen up |
| retroflex | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflexed |
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| (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: cacuminal |
| (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| rickettsialpox | (noun) mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox | - |
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| roux | (noun) a mixture of fat and flour heated and used as a basis for sauces | - |
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| salpinx | (noun) a tube in the uterus or the ear | - |
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| saltbox | (noun) a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind | - |
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| sandbox | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandpile, sandpit |
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| (noun) mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal | - |
| sardonyx | (noun) an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral | - |
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| sax | (noun) a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore | Synonyms: saxophone |
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| scramasax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramaseax, scramsax |
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| scramaseax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramasax, scramsax |
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| scramsax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramasax, scramaseax |
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| seax | (noun) a type of sword or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons. | - |
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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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| sex | (noun) activities associated with sexual intercourse | Synonyms: sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice |
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| (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: gender, sexuality |
| (noun) all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses | Synonyms: sexual urge |
| (noun) either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided | - |
| (verb) tell the sex (of young chickens) | - |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, excite, turn on, wind up |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| shoebox | (noun) an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes | - |
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| (noun) a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) | - |
| silex | (noun) a pure form of finely ground silica | - |
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