9-letter words containing e, x, p
- lipopexia — the storage of fat in the body.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- 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.
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- monkeypox — A viral disease of African origin, related to smallpox and transmitted to humans through fluid exchange by rodents and primates.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- nonexempt — Not exempt.
- nonexpert — A person who is not an expert.
- pansexual — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- paradoxer — a proposer of a paradox
- paralexia — an impairment of reading ability characterized by the transposition of letters or words.
- pentoxide — an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen, as phosphorus pentoxide, P 2 O 5 .
- pepperbox — a small box with perforations in the top, for sprinkling pepper.
- périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- peroxidic — of the nature of a peroxide; containing a peroxide or constituting part of a peroxide group
- perplexed — bewildered; puzzled: a perplexed state of mind.
- perplexer — someone who or something that perplexes (someone)
- phenoxide — phenolate (def 1).
- phone box — A phone box is a small shelter in the street in which there is a public telephone.
- phone sex — sexually explicit conversations engaged in on a telephone, usually for a fee.
- 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.
- 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
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- 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.
- 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.
- pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
- 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.
- preexilic — of that period of Jewish history preceding the Babylonian Exile (6th cent. b.c.)
- prehallux — (of some mammals, reptiles, and amphibians) an undeveloped digit growing on the inner side of a hind limb
- prepollex — a rudimentary additional digit on the preaxial side of the thumb of certain amphibians and mammals.
- press box — a press section, especially at a sports event.
- prix fixe — a fixed price charged for any meal chosen from the variety listed on the menu.
- protoxide — the one of a series of oxides having the smallest proportion of oxygen.
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- pseudaxis — sympodium.
- re-export — to export again, as imported goods.
- re-expose — to expose again
- reexplain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- reexpress — to put (thought) into words; utter or state: to express an idea clearly.
- saxophone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a conical, usually brass tube with keys or valves and a mouthpiece with one reed.
- sex-typed — characterized as appropriate for or of one sex rather than the other