9-letter words that end in x
- gonyaulax — any marine dinoflagellate of the genus Gonyaulax, sometimes occurring in great numbers and causing red tide.
- grass box — a container attached to a lawn mower that receives grass after it has been cut
- green tax — any tax imposed with the aim of regulating activity in a way that benefits the environment
- 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.
- idiot box — a television set; television.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- japan wax — a pale-yellow, waxy, water-insoluble solid obtained from the fruit of certain sumacs, especially Rhus succedanea, native to Japan and China: used chiefly in the manufacture of candles, furniture polishes, and floor waxes.
- jewel box — jewel case.
- 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.
- knife box — a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- 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.
- light box — a boxlike object having a uniformly lighted surface, as of ground glass, against which films or transparencies can be held for examination.
- 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.
- maggotbox — (abuse) /mag'*t-boks/ An even more derogatory term than Macintrash.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- malcolm x — (Malcolm Little) 1925–65, U.S. black-rights activist and religious leader.
- mediatrix — a woman who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- middlesex — a former county in SE England, now part of Greater London.
- 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
- money box — a cashbox.
- monkeypox — A viral disease of African origin, related to smallpox and transmitted to humans through fluid exchange by rodents and primates.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- music box — a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
- nanny tax — the portion of Social Security and Medicare taxes paid by the employer of a nanny, gardener, or other household worker.
- 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.
- netbollix — ["bollix": to bungle] IBM's NetBIOS, an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
- nonconvex — Not convex.
- orgetorix — flourished c60 b.c, Helvetian chieftain.
- 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.
- pepperbox — a small box with perforations in the top, for sprinkling pepper.
- périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- phone box — A phone box is a small shelter in the street in which there is a public telephone.
- 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).
- piscatrix — a female angler; a fisherwoman
- 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.
- pompholyx — a type of eczema
- 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.
- 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.