9-letter words containing x
- john xiii — died a.d. 972, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 965–972.
- john xvii — (Sicco) died 1003, pope 1003.
- john xxii — (Jacques Duèse) c1244–1334, French ecclesiastic: pope 1316–34.
- jukeboxes — Plural form of jukebox.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- karl marx — Karl (Heinrich) [kahrl hahyn-rik;; German kahrl hahyn-rikh] /kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪk;; German kɑrl ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.
- ketoximes — Plural form of ketoxime.
- kickboxer — someone who practises kickboxing
- knife box — a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
- knoxville — a city in E Tennessee, on the Tennessee River.
- ku kluxer — a member of a Ku Klux Klan.
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- laxnesses — Plural form of laxness.
- les gueux — a league of Dutch and Flemish patriots, composed chiefly of nobles and formed in 1566 to resist the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands.
- letterbox — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- lexically — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lexigrams — Plural form of lexigram.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexington — a town in E Massachusetts, NW of Boston: first battle of American Revolution fought here April 19, 1775.
- 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.
- light box — a boxlike object having a uniformly lighted surface, as of ground glass, against which films or transparencies can be held for examination.
- lipopexia — the storage of fat in the body.
- live axle — an axle which rotates with the wheel; driving axle
- lixiviate — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- lixiviums — Plural form of lixivium.
- lockboxes — Plural form of lockbox.
- louis xii — ("the Father of the People") 1462–1515, king of France 1498–1515.
- louis xiv — ("the Great"; "the Sun King") 1638–1715, king of France 1643–1715 (son of Louis XIII).
- louis xvi — 1754–93, king of France 1774–92 (grandson of Louis XV and husband of Marie Antoinette).
- loxodrome — rhumb line.
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
- luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
- luxurious — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- lynx-eyed — sharp-sighted.
- maggotbox — (abuse) /mag'*t-boks/ An even more derogatory term than Macintrash.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- malaxator — a machine for kneading or grinding
- malcolm x — (Malcolm Little) 1925–65, U.S. black-rights activist and religious leader.
- manxwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Isle of Man
- marxisant — sympathetic to Marxism
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- matrixing — an electronic method of processing quadraphonic sound for recording in a two-channel form, for reconversion to four channels when played back.
- maxed out — maximum.
- maxidress — a dress that reaches the ankle