English Words: X

1,183 words · Page 1 of 24

Xnum

An unknown quantity or unknown value.

Xannoun

A Xanax tablet.

Xanaduname

The summer capital of the Yuan dynasty, now an archaeological site in Zhenglan, Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China.

Xanaxname

A brand name for alprazolam.

Xandername

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of modern usage.

Xaviername

A male given name from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

Xboxnoun

Any of the home consoles in Microsoft's Xbox product line, especially the original Xbox.

XCadj

Abbreviation of cross-country.

xepron

they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

Xenaname

A female given name from Ancient Greek of modern usage.

xenianoun

The concept of hospitality to strangers.

xenonnoun

The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.

xenophobianoun

A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

xenophobicadj

Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

Xenophonname

Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 B.C.E. and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was a pupil of Socrates and became a general during the Persian wars.

xeroxnoun

A xerograph (copy).

Xerxesname

Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.

XFname

Initialism of The X-Files.

Xhosanoun

A member of a Bantu people from South Africa, most of whom live in the Eastern Cape.

xinoun

The 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.

Xianame

An ancient dynasty in China.

Xiamenname

A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.

Xianname

Alternative spelling of Xi'an, the provincial capital of Shaanxi, in central China.

Xiangname

A Chinese language spoken mainly in Hunan province, China

xiaonoun

A type of Chinese flute.

Xiaominoun

An electronic product made by Xiaomi, especially a phone.

Xiename

A surname from Chinese.

Xinname

A surname.

xingnoun

Abbreviation of crossing or pedestrian crossing.

Xinhuaname

A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.

Xinjiangname

An Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest. Official name: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Capital: Ürümqi.

xiongadj

Alternative form of siong.

XLnoun

Initialism of extra large (the manufactured size or an item of that size).

XLRnoun

A kind of electrical connector, circular and having between three and seven pins, primarily used with professional audiovisual and stage lighting equipment.

XMnoun

Initialism of extended module: a tracker music file format.

Xmasname

Abbreviation of Christmas.

XMLname

Initialism of Extensible Markup Language, a flexible text format for creating structured computer documents in machine-readable form.

XOnoun

Alternative letter-case form of xo (“hugs and kisses”).

xornoun

The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.

xoxonoun

Abbreviation of hugs and kisses, usually placed at the end of a letter.

XPnoun

Initialism of extreme programming.

XPSname

Initialism of Extreme Performance System, a line of gaming and performance computers manufactured by Dell.

XRnoun

Initialism of extended reality.

XSSnoun

Abbreviation of cross-site scripting.

Xtname

Alternative form of X, abbreviation of Christ.

Xuename

A surname.

xunnoun

A globular vessel flute made of clay or ceramic originating from China.

XXXsymbol

Denotes extreme or hardcore pornography.

XXXXnoun

A fuck / damn.

xylemnoun

A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter X contains 1,183 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 24 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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