9-letter words containing x, l
- 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.
- 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.
- maxillary — of or relating to a jaw, jawbone, or maxilla.
- maxillula — either of the first pair of maxillae of a crustacean
- maximally — of or being a maximum; greatest possible; highest.
- maximumly — In a maximum manner.
- 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.
- meloxicam — an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat osteoarthritis
- metaxylem — the part of the primary xylem that is the last to be formed, usually having weblike or pitted surfaces.
- 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.
- minoxidil — a potent peripheral vasodilator, C 23 H 27 N, used in the treatment of severe hypertension, also applied topically to promote hair growth in some types of baldness.
- mixoploid — an organism having an unequal number of chromosome sets in adjacent cells or tissues.
- monoxylon — a sailing vessel constructed from one whole piece of wood
- 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.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- myxoviral — Relating to myxoviruses.
- 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.
- nonsexual — of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
- noxiously — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- old saxon — the Saxon dialect of Low German in use before c1100. Abbreviation: OS.
- oxacillin — a semisynthetic penicillin, C 1 9 H 1 9 N 3 O 5 S, used in the treatment of serious staphylococcal infections.
- oxon hill — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.