Words Starting With X
8 words accepted in official NYT Spelling Bee puzzles since 2018 starting with X, with meanings, pronunciation, etymology and puzzle appearances for each. Browse all letters.
X Words
- xebecNoun
A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.
- xeniaNoun
The concept of hospitality to strangers.
- xenicAdjective
Containing an unidentified organism, especially a bacterium.
- 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.
- xenophobeNoun · Adjective
One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.
- xyleneNoun
Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.
- xylolNoun
Xylene.
- xylylNoun
Any of several univalent radicals, of formula (CH₃)₂C₆H₃- derived from the three isomers of xylene: ortho-, meta- and para- (di-methyl benzene).
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