9-letter words containing e, x, t
- mediatrix — a woman who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- metaxylem — the part of the primary xylem that is the last to be formed, usually having weblike or pitted surfaces.
- methoxide — methylate (def 1).
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- miter box — any of various fixed or adjustable guides for a saw in making miters or cross cuts, especially a troughlike box open at the ends and guiding the saw by slots in the opposite sides.
- mitre box — an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- mixmaster — a disc jockey
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- narthexes — Plural form of narthex.
- neocortex — the largest and evolutionarily most recent portion of the cerebral cortex, composed of complex, layered tissue, the site of most of the higher brain functions.
- netbollix — ["bollix": to bungle] IBM's NetBIOS, an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
- next door — Also, next door. to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like: Go next-door and get your sister. Your sister is next-door. Her brother lives next-door.
- next week — during the week after this one
- next-door — Also, next door. to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like: Go next-door and get your sister. Your sister is next-door. Her brother lives next-door.
- nonexempt — Not exempt.
- nonexotic — not exotic
- nonexpert — A person who is not an expert.
- nonextant — Not extant.
- nonsexist — not showing prejudice on the basis of gender: nonsexist language in business letters.
- orgetorix — flourished c60 b.c, Helvetian chieftain.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overexert — to exert excessively.
- overtaxed — taxed too heavily
- oxidative — the process or result of oxidizing.
- oxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- pentoxide — an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen, as phosphorus pentoxide, P 2 O 5 .
- 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.
- 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.
- protoxide — the one of a series of oxides having the smallest proportion of oxygen.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
- re-export — to export again, as imported goods.
- remixture — a thing that has been mixed again
- retexture — to restore a natural or different texture to (something)
- retroflex — bent backward; exhibiting retroflexion.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- 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.
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- sex-typed — characterized as appropriate for or of one sex rather than the other
- sextantal — pertaining to the weight standard that determined the worth of Roman coins
- sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
- sextoness — a female sexton or the wife of a sexton