9-letter words containing x, p, l
- expulsive — Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion.
- glass pox — alastrim, or mild smallpox.
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- implexion — a complication or entanglement
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
- lexophile — A lover of words, especially in word games, puzzles, anagrams, palindromes, etc.
- lipopexia — the storage of fat in the body.
- 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.
- mixoploid — an organism having an unequal number of chromosome sets in adjacent cells or tissues.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- oxyphilic — acidophilic.
- pansexual — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- 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)
- 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).
- 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
- pole-axed — If someone is pole-axed, they are so surprised or shocked that they do not know what to say or do.
- polyaxial — having more than one axis
- polymyxin — any of various polypeptide antibiotics derived from Bacillus polymyxa.
- pompholyx — a type of eczema
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- 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.
- prolixity — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
- pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
- pyroxylic — resulting from the action of fire on wood
- pyroxylin — a nitrocellulose compound containing fewer nitrate groups than guncotton, used in the manufacture of artificial silk, leather, oilcloth, etc.
- reexplain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- sextuplet — a group or combination of six things.
- sextuplex — sixfold; sextuple.
- spondulix — money; cash.
- superflux — an overflow; an overspill; an excessive amount or flow
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.