6-Letter Words Containing: X,N,_

• A mess or undesirable situation made as a result of incompetence.

• (originally Ireland) To ruin or destroy.

• (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

• Alternative form of Sphynx

• a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• foredoom to failure

• (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon

• an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret

• one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians

• curving or bulging outward

• a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

• the act of putting something in working order again

• restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

• the sterilization of an animal

• (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body