Oryx is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 18 anagrams from letters in Oryx (orxy).
1350-1400; Middle English Latin Greek óryx pickax, oryx
Egyptian sculpture is at best but a rude affair, and the peculiar curve and set of the oryx horns are difficult to depict.
In form it bears a good deal of resemblance to the oryx, and was really the animal known by this name to the Greeks and Romans.
Of course the oryx were also brought up to the camp to be skinned and cut up.
The fourth species of oryx is the “algazel,” (oryx algazella).
The “abu-harb” (oryx leucoryx) is also a large powerful antelope, with long sharp horns slightly curved backward.
An interesting point occurred in the conversation about the oryx.
Aristotle mentions as such the oryx or antelope of northern Africa.
The oryx when hunted does not, like many other antelopes, make for either water or cover.
If it is a young man, they should start with oryx and Crake.
The oryx next became the subject of conversation, and Swartboy could tell more about it than any one.