9-letter words containing a, x, l
- glass pox — alastrim, or mild smallpox.
- gloxinias — Plural form of gloxinia.
- gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
- hexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- hexameral — hexamerous.
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- hexathlon — an athletic contest consisting of six different events
- indexable — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- indexical — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- isoxazole — (organic compound) the isomer of oxazole 1,2-oxazole many of whose derivatives have pharmacological activity.
- karl marx — Karl (Heinrich) [kahrl hahyn-rik;; German kahrl hahyn-rikh] /kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- laxnesses — Plural form of laxness.
- lexically — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
- lipopexia — the storage of fat in the body.
- live axle — an axle which rotates with the wheel; driving axle
- lixiviate — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
- luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
- malcolm x — (Malcolm Little) 1925–65, U.S. black-rights activist and religious leader.
- maxillary — of or relating to a jaw, jawbone, or maxilla.
- maxillula — either of the first pair of maxillae of a crustacean
- maximally — of or being a maximum; greatest possible; highest.
- maximumly — In a maximum manner.
- megapixel — a unit equal to one million pixels, used to measure the resolution of a digital image: My camera has a resolution of 12 megapixels.
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- metaxylem — the part of the primary xylem that is the last to be formed, usually having weblike or pitted surfaces.
- moraxella — a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria, certain species of which, as M. lacunata, are parasitic and pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.
- myxoviral — Relating to myxoviruses.
- nonsexual — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- old saxon — the Saxon dialect of Low German in use before c1100. Abbreviation: OS.
- oxacillin — a semisynthetic penicillin, C 1 9 H 1 9 N 3 O 5 S, used in the treatment of serious staphylococcal infections.
- pansexual — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- paralexia — an impairment of reading ability characterized by the transposition of letters or words.
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- pixelated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
- plain tex — (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.