9-letter words containing r, e, l, x
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- letterbox — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- loxodrome — rhumb line.
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- 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.
- paralexia — an impairment of reading ability characterized by the transposition of letters or words.
- perplexed — bewildered; puzzled: a perplexed state of mind.
- perplexer — someone who or something that perplexes (someone)
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- 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.
- rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
- 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.
- relaxedly — being free of or relieved from tension or anxiety: in a relaxed mood.
- religieux — religious; devout; pious.
- retroflex — bent backward; exhibiting retroflexion.
- superflux — an overflow; an overspill; an excessive amount or flow
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- transaxle — a unit combining the transmission and differential of a motor vehicle and connected directly to the axles of the driving wheels.
- unperplex — to remove confusion from
- unrelaxed — not relaxed; uptight; tense
- vexillary — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of veteran soldiers who served under a special banner.
- waxflower — (botany) Any plant of the genus Hoya.
- xerically — of, relating to, or adapted to a dry environment.
- xylem ray — a transverse sheet of soft, living cells wholly within the wood or xylem and extending from the pith of a stem to the phloem
- xylometer — a device for measuring the specific gravity of wood