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9-letter words containing x

  • phone sex — sexually explicit conversations engaged in on a telephone, usually for a fee.
  • 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.
  • piscatrix — a female angler; a fisherwoman
  • 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.
  • pixie hat — a hat, usually knitted, that comes to a point
  • pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
  • pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
  • 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
  • praetexta — (in ancient Rome) a white toga with a broad purple border, worn by priests and magistrates as an official costume, and by certain other Romans as ceremonial dress.
  • pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
  • 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.
  • press box — a press section, especially at a sports event.
  • prix fixe — a fixed price charged for any meal chosen from the variety listed on the menu.
  • prolixity — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
  • prothorax — the anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.
  • protoxide — the one of a series of oxides having the smallest proportion of oxygen.
  • proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
  • proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
  • proximity — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • proxy arp — (networking)   The technique in which one host, usually a router, answers Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests intended for another machine. By "faking" its identity, the router accepts responsibility for routing packets to the "real" destination. Proxy ARP allows a site to use a single IP address with two physical networks. Subnetting would normally be a better solution.
  • pseudaxis — sympodium.
  • pyothorax — empyema.
  • 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)
  • pyrotoxin — pyrogen.
  • 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.
  • quick fix — an expedient, temporary solution, especially one that merely postpones having to cope with an overall problem.
  • quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
  • rattlebox — any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous plants that have inflated pods within which the seeds rattle
  • re-export — to export again, as imported goods.
  • re-expose — to expose again
  • ready-mix — a commercial preparation in which the principal ingredients have already been mixed for easy use: a novice cook's reliance on ready-mixes.
  • real axis — the horizontal axis in an Argand diagram.
  • reexamine — to examine again.
  • reexplain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
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