9-letter words containing x, o, r
- fox grape — a vine, Vitis labrusca, chiefly of the northeastern U.S., from which numerous cultivated grape varieties have been developed.
- gearboxes — Plural form of gearbox.
- giraudoux — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, French novelist, playwright, and diplomat.
- glory box — a box in which a young woman stores clothes, etc, in preparation for marriage
- grass box — a container attached to a lawn mower that receives grass after it has been cut
- gregory x — (Teobaldo Visconti) c1210–76, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1271–76.
- group sex — sexual activity involving three or more people
- grout box — a conical object of expanded metal, buried in poured concrete with an anchor bolt held in its inner and smaller end.
- heterodox — not in accordance with established or accepted doctrines or opinions, especially in theology; unorthodox.
- heterosex — heterosexuality.
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.
- hexameron — hexaemeron.
- hydroxide — a chemical compound containing the hydroxyl group.
- hyperoxia — (pathology) A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues and organs.
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- kickboxer — someone who practises kickboxing
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- letterbox — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- loxodrome — rhumb line.
- luxurious — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
- 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
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- 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.
- mx record — Mail Exchange Record
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- myxoviral — Relating to myxoviruses.
- myxovirus — any of a group of medium-sized, RNA-containing viruses having a helical envelope, infectious to humans and other animals and a cause of influenza.
- 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.
- 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-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.
- nonexpert — A person who is not an expert.
- orgetorix — flourished c60 b.c, Helvetian chieftain.
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- orthodoxy — orthodox belief or practice.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overexert — to exert excessively.
- overindex — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- oversexed — having an unusually strong sexual drive.
- overtaxed — taxed too heavily
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- paradoxer — a proposer of a paradox
- pepperbox — a small box with perforations in the top, for sprinkling pepper.
- peroxidic — of the nature of a peroxide; containing a peroxide or constituting part of a peroxide group
- 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.
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- prepollex — a rudimentary additional digit on the preaxial side of the thumb of certain amphibians and mammals.