| BOXHAULED | • boxhauled v. Simple past tense and past participle of boxhaul. • BOXHAUL v. to put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel. |
| HELLBOXES | • hellboxes n. Plural of hellbox. • HELLBOX n. a printer's receptacle for broken type. |
| HEXAFOILS | • hexafoils n. Plural of hexafoil. • HEXAFOIL n. a pattern with six leaflike lobes. |
| HEXAGLOTS | • HEXAGLOT n. a book written in six languages. |
| HEXAGONAL | • hexagonal adj. (Geometry) Having six edges, or having a cross-section in the form of a hexagon. • hexagonal adj. (Crystallography) Having three equal axes which cross at 60° angles, and an unequal axis which crosses… • HEXAGONAL adj. having six sides and six angles. |
| HEXAPLOID | • hexaploid adj. Having six complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell. • hexaploid n. A cell or organism that has six complete sets of chromosomes. • HEXAPLOID n. a cell having six times the ordinary number of chromosomes. |
| HEXAPODAL | • hexapodal adj. Having six legs. • HEXAPODAL adj. relating to Hexapoda, insects. |
| HEXATHLON | • hexathlon n. (Athletics) An athletic contest comprising six events. • HEXATHLON n. an athletic contest comprising six events. |
| METHOXYLS | • METHOXYL n. a compound containing a certain chemical group, also METHOXY. |
| OXYPHILES | • OXYPHILE n. an organism that thrives on an acid environment, also OXYPHIL. |
| SEXAHOLIC | • sexaholic n. One who is addicted to sex. • SEXAHOLIC n. someone addicted to sex. |
| XENOLITHS | • xenoliths n. Plural of xenolith. • XENOLITH n. (Greek) a rock fragment foreign to the igneous mass in which it occurs. |
| XENOPHILE | • xenophile n. A person who has a love of foreign people and culture. • xenophile n. A person with an interest in celebrating people’s differences. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • XENOPHILE n. one who loves foreigners. |
| XEROPHILE | • xerophile n. Any xerophilic organism. • XEROPHILE n. a plant adapted to dry conditions. |
| XEROPHILY | • xerophily n. Quality of being xerophilic. • XEROPHILY n. adaptation to very dry conditions. |
| XYLOPHAGE | • xylophage n. (Biology) Any living organism that feeds on wood. • XYLOPHAGE n. an insect larva, mollusc etc. that eats or bores into wood. |
| XYLOPHONE | • xylophone n. (Music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the… • xylophone v. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone. • xylophone v. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and… |