Do you need some good 'X' words for your Words with Friends or Scrabble games? Do you get hassled by friends when they don't know what the 'X' word is that you use, because they can't pull it up on their dictionaries? Well I have found a few for you to use and given you the definitions so you won't be baffled.
These are particularly interesting words because not only do they have a common meaning, most are also the names of companies and rather successful ones at that. There are two that are not. One is a non-profit foundation and the other is a city in the USA. I didn't include Xerox, because it's common meaning comes from the company name rather than the other way around. Enjoy!
Xebec – is a small Mediterranean 3 masted sailing ship. Xebec Deburring Technologies produces
deburring and finishing tools using ceramic.
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| Xeric |
Xeric – means of or pertaining to an extremely dry climate. The Xeric Foundation provides support and
grants to comic book creators.
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| Xenon |
Xenon – is the chemical element with the symbol Xe, a colorless,
odorless, gas occurring in trace amounts in the earth’s atmosphere. Xenon is a company that produces automobile
body parts.
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| Xenics |
Xenic –
is a noble gas compound
formed when xenon trioxide is dissolved in water.
Xenics Infrared Solutions is a high tech company which
produces a wide variety of infrared products and applications to meet the
diverse ever-expanding needs of the global marketplace.
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| Xenia, Ohio |
Xenia - is the ancient Greek
concept of hospitality involving being generous and courteous to people
traveling through your area far from their own homes. The welcoming of strangers as honored
guests. Xenia is a city in Ohio which calls
itself the City of Hospitality.
Xylem – is a type of transport tissue within the vascular system of
plants. There are at least two companies
who have taken the name Xylem. Xylem Inc
is involved with coming up with innovative solutions for global water
challenges.
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| Xylem |
The second company,
which goes by simply ‘Xylem’, is a bathroom furniture and fixtures company.
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| Whitford products: housewares |
Xylan – is a yellow gummy plant substance ubiquitous in plant cell
walls. Xylan is also one of the
trademark brands of fluoropolymer coatings of Whitford, an American company
with branches worldwide. The breadth of
what this company produces is quite amazing
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| Xylol |
Xylol – is a type of solvent, very volatile, also known as Xylene. Klean Strip produces a brand of Xylol which
can be purchased at your basic hardware store.
I want to congratulate you on an excellently researched post. Fascinating. The only word i knew was xeric which I learned in last years challenge.
ReplyDeleteThanks, DA, for your accoulades. It took some time but it was fun finding out something new. Appreciate your faithful visits. God bless, Maria
DeletePhew. I'm glad I'm not a game-playing person....you'd kill me with "x" words. :)
ReplyDeletePS You might be giving ammunition to your opponents!
ReplyDeleteHahaha. Yeah perhaps. But that's what I like about these word games, we all learn something new and we each get better at it from what we learn from each other. It's fun. Thanks for being here, Heidi. God bless, Maria
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