9-letter words containing a, x
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overtaxed — taxed too heavily
- oxacillin — a semisynthetic penicillin, C 1 9 H 1 9 N 3 O 5 S, used in the treatment of serious staphylococcal infections.
- oxidation — the process or result of oxidizing.
- oxidative — the process or result of oxidizing.
- oxygenase — an oxidoreductase enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of molecular oxygen into an organic substance.
- oxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- pansexual — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- paradoxer — a proposer of a paradox
- paralexia — an impairment of reading ability characterized by the transposition of letters or words.
- parataxic — of or characterized by emotional maladjustment.
- parataxis — the placing together of sentences, clauses, or phrases without a conjunctive word or words, as Hurry up, it is getting late! I came—I saw—I conquered.
- 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).
- piroxicam — a white crystalline solid substance, C 1 5 H 1 3 N 3 O 4 S, used in the symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders.
- piscatrix — a female angler; a fisherwoman
- 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.
- pixie hat — a hat, usually knitted, that comes to a point
- pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
- pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
- 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.
- plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- pleonexia — excessive greed
- plexiglas — material: acrylic glass
- pole-axed — If someone is pole-axed, they are so surprised or shocked that they do not know what to say or do.
- polyaxial — having more than one axis
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- praetexta — (in ancient Rome) a white toga with a broad purple border, worn by priests and magistrates as an official costume, and by certain other Romans as ceremonial dress.
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- prehallux — (of some mammals, reptiles, and amphibians) an undeveloped digit growing on the inner side of a hind limb
- prothorax — the anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- proxy arp — (networking) The technique in which one host, usually a router, answers Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests intended for another machine. By "faking" its identity, the router accepts responsibility for routing packets to the "real" destination. Proxy ARP allows a site to use a single IP address with two physical networks. Subnetting would normally be a better solution.
- pseudaxis — sympodium.
- pyothorax — empyema.
- pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
- rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
- ready-mix — a commercial preparation in which the principal ingredients have already been mixed for easy use: a novice cook's reliance on ready-mixes.
- real axis — the horizontal axis in an Argand diagram.
- reexamine — to examine again.
- reexplain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- relaxedly — being free of or relieved from tension or anxiety: in a relaxed mood.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rituximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- sales tax — a tax on receipts from sales, usually added to the selling price by the seller.
- saulteaux — a member of an American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, a division of the Ojibwa.
- saxe blue — a light greyish-blue colour