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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter X.. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples xanth-[1]yellow: Greek: ξανθός (xanthós), ξανθότης (xanthótēs) "yellowness" ...
Xe (pronoun), a gender-neutral pronoun; Xe (interjection), or che, a typical Valencian interjection; Ḫāʾ, a letter of the Arabic alphabet; Xe, 2015; Christmas Eve, in a common Japanese abbreviation; Jaguar XE, an automobile made by Jaguar; Extreme E, an electric offroad rally racing series; XE variant of SARS-CoV-2, a subvariant of Omicron
When x does start a word, it is usually pronounced 'z' (e.g. xylophone, xanthan). When starting in some names or as its own representation, it is pronounced 'eks', in rare recent loanwords or foreign proper names, it can also be pronounced / s / (e.g. the obsolete Vietnamese monetary unit xu ) or / ʃ / (e.g. Chinese names starting with Xi ...
This multi-page article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once. ...
The pronunciation of "xe" is intended to be a voiceless velar fricative, similar to "ge" in Spanish wikt:gerente.As this is not a standard English sound there should be much tolerance for variation, including a "kse" as "x" would normally be pronounced.
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
Not all words in this list are acceptable in Scrabble tournament games. Scrabble tournaments around the world use their own sets of words from selected dictionaries that might not contain all the words listed here. Qi is the most commonly played word in Scrabble tournaments, [10] and was added to the official North American word list in 2006. [11]