9-letter words containing l, e, x, i
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- middlesex — a former county in SE England, now part of Greater London.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- 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.
- paralexia — an impairment of reading ability characterized by the transposition of letters or words.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.)
- real axis — the horizontal axis in an Argand diagram.
- reexplain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- reflexion — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- reflexive — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- religieux — religious; devout; pious.
- sexaholic — a person who is addicted to sex
- sexennial — of or for six years.
- sexologic — pertaining to the study of human sexuality
- sexualism — any discrimination based upon sexual preference
- sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
- sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- sexualize — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
- slide box — a box for keeping slides in
- sulfoxide — a brown liquid, C 1 8 H 2 8 O 3 S, insoluble in water, used as an insecticide synergist.
- tax exile — a person who moves outside the jurisdiction of a country to avoid paying taxes.
- tax title — a title, acquired by the purchaser at a forced sale of property for nonpayment of taxes.
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
- telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.
- text file — a file, readable by a person, that doesn't contain any codes but only contains text and numbers
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- the exile — the period in the 6th cent. b.c. during which the Jews were held captive in Babylonia
- unfixable — to repair; mend.
- unisexual — of or relating to one sex only.
- unmixable — incapable of being mixed
- unmixedly — in an unmixed manner, without being mixed
- vexillary — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of veteran soldiers who served under a special banner.
- vexillate — having a vexillum or vexilla.
- xenolalia — The ability to speak in a language which the individual has not learned. It is similar to, but not the same as, xenography.
- xenoliths — Plural form of xenolith.
- xenophile — a person who is attracted to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
- xerically — of, relating to, or adapted to a dry environment.
- xylidines — Plural form of xylidine.
- xylocaine — lidocaine, often used as a local anesthetic by dentists and plastic surgeons