The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.
An unknown quantity or unknown value.
Obscene.
Intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents).
A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten.
Christ
A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name.
Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.
Cross, crossing.
The spot behind the goal.
Ecstasy, a particular street drug.
To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
To stifle or smother with smoke.
To soil or smear with dirt.
To obscure by blurring; to smear.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.