Words that rhyme with suffix

• admix 0
  v 1: mix or blend; "Hyaline casts were admixed with neutrophils"
• affix 0
  n 1: a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1: attach to; "affix the seal here" [syn: affix, stick on] 2: add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language" [syn: append, add on, supplement, affix] 3: attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem"
• angst 0
  n 1: an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
• appendix 0
  n 1: supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book 2: a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch [syn: appendix, vermiform appendix, vermiform process, cecal appendage]
• apteryx 0
  n 1: nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes [syn: kiwi, apteryx]
• astronautics 0
  n 1: the theory and practice of navigation through air or space [syn: aeronautics, astronautics]
• astrophysics 0
  n 1: the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies
• aviatrix 0
  n 1: a woman aviator [syn: aviatrix, airwoman, aviatress]
• betwixt 0
  adv 1: in the interval; "dancing all the dances with little rest between" [syn: between, betwixt]
• bracing 0
  adj 1: imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic] n 1: a structural member used to stiffen a framework [syn: brace, bracing]
• calyx 0
  n 1: (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green
• casing 0
  n 1: the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case" [syn: shell, case, casing] 2: the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire 3: the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced" [syn: casing, case]
• cicatrix 0
  n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice]
• coccyx 0
  n 1: the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes [syn: coccyx, tail bone]
• commix 0
  v 1: to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate]
• context 0
  n 1: discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation [syn: context, linguistic context, context of use] 2: the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context" [syn: context, circumstance, setting]
• crossing 0
  n 1: traveling across 2: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: ford, crossing] 3: a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect 4: a junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour] 5: a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other [syn: crossing, crosswalk, crossover] 6: (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing] 7: a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
• crucifix 0
  n 1: representation of the cross on which Jesus died [syn: crucifix, rood, rood-tree] 2: a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally
• cryonics 0
  n 1: the freezing of a seriously ill or recently deceased person to stop tissues from decomposing; the body is preserved until new medical cures are developed that might bring the person back to life; "cryonics is more science fiction than serious science"
• depressing 0
  adj 1: causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" [syn: depressing, cheerless, uncheerful] [ant: cheerful]
• distressing 0
  adj 1: causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" [syn: distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying] 2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
• dressing 0
  n 1: savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type [syn: dressing, salad dressing] 2: a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables [syn: stuffing, dressing] 3: making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure [syn: fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, dressing] 4: a cloth covering for a wound or sore [syn: dressing, medical dressing] 5: processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather 6: the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes [syn: dressing, grooming] 7: the act of applying a bandage [syn: dressing, bandaging, binding]
• embarrassing 0
  adj 1: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign" [syn: awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable] 2: causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word" [syn: embarrassing, mortifying]
• enticing 0
  adj 1: highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation" [syn: alluring, beguiling, enticing, tempting]
• executrix 0
  n 1: a woman executor
• facing 0
  n 1: a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening 2: an ornamental coating to a building [syn: facing, veneer] 3: a protective covering that protects the outside of a building [syn: facing, cladding] 4: providing something with a surface of a different material [syn: lining, facing]
• fix 0
  n 1: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 2: something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug; "she needed a fix of chocolate" 3: the act of putting something in working order again [syn: repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation] 4: an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear; "collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers" 5: a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" [syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix] v 1: restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" [syn: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on] [ant: break, bust] 2: cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" [syn: fasten, fix, secure] [ant: unfasten] 3: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit] 4: prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" [syn: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare] 5: take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him" [syn: pay back, pay off, get, fix] 6: set or place definitely; "Let's fix the date for the party!" 7: kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study 8: make fixed, stable or stationary; "let's fix the picture to the frame" [syn: fixate, fix] 9: make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix] 10: influence an event or its outcome by illegal means; "fix a race" 11: put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" [syn: situate, fix, posit, deposit] 12: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill" [syn: fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set]
• geophysics 0
  n 1: geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth [syn: geophysics, geophysical science]
• geopolitics 0
  n 1: the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state
• graphics 0
  n 1: photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book" [syn: artwork, art, graphics, nontextual matter] 2: the drawings and photographs in the layout of a book
• hairdressing 0
  n 1: a toiletry for the hair [syn: hairdressing, hair tonic, hair oil, hair grease] 2: care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair [syn: hair care, haircare, hairdressing]
• hanging 0
  n 1: decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings" [syn: hanging, wall hanging] 2: a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" 3: the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait" [syn: suspension, dangling, hanging]
• helix 0
  n 1: a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle [syn: helix, spiral] 2: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix] 3: type genus of the family Helicidae [syn: Helix, genus Helix]
• hypertext 0
  n 1: machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected; "Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper"--Ted Nelson
• icing 0
  n 1: the formation of frost or ice on a surface [syn: frost, icing] 2: a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes [syn: frosting, icing, ice] 3: (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal [syn: icing, icing the puck]
• infix 0
  n 1: an affix that is inserted inside the word v 1: put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text" [syn: insert, infix, enter, introduce] 2: attach a morpheme into a stem word
• informatics 0
  n 1: the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information [syn: information science, informatics, information processing, IP]
• intermix 0
  v 1: combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" [syn: blend, intermix, immingle, intermingle]
• lacing 0
  n 1: a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage 2: a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) [syn: lace, lacing] 3: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]
• lexicostatistics 0
  n 1: a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
• longing 0
  n 1: prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: longing, yearning, hungriness]
• mathematics 0
  n 1: a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement [syn: mathematics, math, maths]
• matrix 0
  n 1: (mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules 2: (geology) amass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded 3: an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb) 4: the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded [syn: matrix, intercellular substance, ground substance] 5: the formative tissue at the base of a nail 6: mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface
• microelectronics 0
  n 1: the branch of electronics that deals with miniature components
• mix 0
  n 1: a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients [syn: mix, premix] 2: an event that combines things in a mixture; "a gradual mixture of cultures" [syn: mix, mixture] 3: the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" [syn: mix, commixture, admixture, mixture, intermixture, mixing] v 1: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge] 2: open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated" [syn: desegregate, integrate, mix] [ant: segregate] 3: combine (electronic signals); "mixing sounds" 4: add as an additional element or part; "mix water into the drink" [syn: mix, mix in] 5: to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate] 6: mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" [syn: shuffle, ruffle, mix]
• multiprocessing 0
  n 1: simultaneous processing by two or more processing units [syn: multiprocessing, parallel processing]
• next 0
  adv 1: at the time or occasion immediately following; "next the doctor examined his back" adj 1: immediately following in time or order; "the following day"; "next in line"; "the next president"; "the next item on the list" [syn: following, next] 2: nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side" [syn: adjacent, next, side by side(p)] 3: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president" [syn: future(a), next, succeeding(a)]
• nix 0
  n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo] v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit]
• onyx 0
  n 1: a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos
• oversexed 0
  adj 1: having excessive sexual desire or appeal [syn: oversexed, highly-sexed]
• passing 0
  adv 1: to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant" [syn: extremely, exceedingly, super, passing] adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious] 2: of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: passing(a), pass(a)] [ant: running(a)] 3: allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade" 4: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory] n 1: (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" [syn: pass, passing play, passing game, passing] 2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release] 3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passing, passage] 4: the end of something; "the passing of winter" 5: a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: passage, passing] 6: going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me" [syn: passing, overtaking] 7: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry" [syn: passing, pass, qualifying] [ant: failing, flunk]
• phoenix 0
  n 1: the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation [syn: Phoenix, capital of Arizona] 2: a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa [syn: phoenix, genus Phoenix] 3: 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 4: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
• postfix 0
  n 1: an affix that is added at the end of the word [syn: suffix, postfix]
• prefix 0
  n 1: an affix that is added in front of the word v 1: attach a prefix to; "prefixed words" [ant: suffix]
• pressing 0
  adj 1: compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: pressing, urgent] n 1: the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button" [syn: press, pressure, pressing] 2: a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
• pretext 0
  n 1: something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason [syn: pretext, stalking-horse] 2: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext]
• prolix 0
  adj 1: tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know" [ant: concise]
• psychophysics 0
  n 1: the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects
• radix 0
  n 1: (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" [syn: base, radix]
• rejoicing 0
  adj 1: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant] n 1: a feeling of great happiness 2: the utterance of sounds expressing great joy [syn: exultation, rejoicing, jubilation]
• semiotics 0
  n 1: (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols [syn: semiotics, semiology]
• six 0
  adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units [syn: six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn: six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad] 2: a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips [syn: six-spot, six]
• spacing 0
  n 1: the time between occurrences of a repeating event; "some women do not control the spacing of their children" 2: the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them [syn: spacing, spatial arrangement]
• surpassing 0
  adj 1: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence [syn: transcendent, surpassing] 2: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing]
• teleconferencing 0
  n 1: a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television [syn: teleconference, teleconferencing]
• testatrix 0
  n 1: a female testator
• text 0
  n 1: the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text" [syn: text, textual matter] 2: a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon" 3: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" [syn: textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school text] [ant: trade book, trade edition] 4: the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand"
• tracing 0
  n 1: the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline 2: a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image [syn: tracing, trace] 3: the discovery and description of the course of development of something; "the tracing of genealogies"
• transfix 0
  v 1: to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra" [syn: fascinate, transfix, grip, spellbind] 2: pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer" [syn: transfix, impale, empale, spike]
• tropics 0
  n 1: the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate [syn: Torrid Zone, tropical zone, tropics]
• unceasing 0
  adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing] 2: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never- ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]
• unconvincing 0
  adj 1: not convincing; "unconvincing argument"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile" [syn: unconvincing, flimsy] [ant: convincing] 2: having a probability too low to inspire belief [syn: improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely]
• undersexed 0
  adj 1: having a subnormal degree of sexual desire
• unmixed 0
  adj 1: not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" [syn: plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed] 2: not constituting a compound [syn: uncompounded, unmixed]
• unprepossessing 0
  adj 1: creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression [syn: unprepossessing, unpresentable]
• unpromising 0
  adj 1: unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment; "faced an unpromising task"; "music for unpromising combinations of instruments"
• upbringing 0
  n 1: properties acquired during a person's formative years 2: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing]
• voicing 0
  n 1: the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color
• waxing 0
  adj 1: (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon increases; "the waxing moon passes from new to full" [ant: waning] n 1: the application of wax to a surface 2: a gradual increase in magnitude or extent; "the waxing of the moon" [ant: waning]
• mi 0
  n 1: destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle [syn: myocardial infarction, myocardial infarct, MI] 2: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile [syn: nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty mile] 3: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile] 4: a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters [syn: mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile, mi] 5: a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region [syn: Michigan, Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, MI] 6: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory [syn: Security Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 5] 7: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas [syn: Secret Intelligence Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 6] 8: the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization
• lansing 0
  n 1: capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River [syn: Lansing, capital of Michigan]
• nyx 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) Greek goddess of the night; daughter of Chaos; counterpart of Roman Nox
• pix 0
  n 1: a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay [syn: pyx, pix, pyx chest, pix chest] 2: any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept [syn: pyx, pix]
• styx 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls [syn: Styx, River Styx]
• spadix 0
  n 1: the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe
• sussex 0
  n 1: a county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century
• ebonics 0
  n 1: a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States [syn: African American Vernacular English, AAVE, African American English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics]
• untaxed 0
  adj 1: (of goods or funds) not taxed; "tax-exempt bonds"; "an untaxed expense account" [syn: tax-exempt, tax-free, untaxed]
• varix 0
  n 1: abnormally enlarged or twisted blood vessel or lymphatic vessel
• pyx 0
  n 1: a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay [syn: pyx, pix, pyx chest, pix chest] 2: any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept [syn: pyx, pix]
• mediatrix 0
  n 1: a woman who is a mediator
• sardonyx 0
  n 1: an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral
• periodontics 0
  n 1: the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the gums and other structures around the teeth [syn: periodontics, periodontia]
• cladistics 0
  n 1: a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms [syn: cladistics, cladistic analysis]
• wessex 0
  n 1: a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
• unrelaxed 0
  adj 1: nor relaxed; "his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips
• bioethics 0
  n 1: the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences
• sext 0
  n 1: the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon
• hendrix 0
  n 1: United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970) [syn: Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix, James Marshall Hendrix]
• unwaxed 0
  adj 1: not waxed; "the unwaxed floor" [ant: waxed]

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