-x
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-x/z/
▶suffix forming the plural of many nouns ending in -u taken from French: tableaux.
– origin from Fr.
'-x' also found in these Oxford entries:
abscissa
- angiogram
- argument
- ascender
- barium
- Barr body
- burster
- Caesar
- chiasma
- cholangiography
- coronach
- currach
- curragh
- dbx
- decussate
- electromagnetic radiation
- Fermat's last theorem
- fluorescence
- fluorescent screen
- fluoroscope
- fragile X syndrome
- gamma rays
- Generation X
- identity
- independent variable
- ionizing radiation
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- let
- Linux
- mammography
- monosomy
- quaich
- quaternion
- radiation sickness
- radiograph
- radiology
- radiopaque
- radioscopy
- radiotherapy
- RDX
- Reich
- rem
- roentgen
- roentgenogram
- roentgenography
- roentgen rays
- Roman numeral
- St Andrew's cross
- sawbuck
- sex chromosome
