9-letter words containing a, c, l, i, n, e
- coleraine — a town in N Northern Ireland, in Coleraine district, Co Antrim, on the River Bann; light industries; university (1965). Pop: 24 089 (2001)
- collegian — a current member of a college; student
- collinear — lying on the same straight line
- congenial — friendly, pleasant, or agreeable
- coralline — of, relating to, or resembling coral
- cornelian — carnelian
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cyllenian — of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- dancelike — Having the characteristics of a dance.
- decennial — lasting for ten years
- declaring — Present participle of declare.
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- demilance — A light lance; a short spear.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- descaling — Present participle of descale.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- elocation — (obsolete) A removal from the usual place of residence.
- emplacing — Present participle of emplace.
- enchilada — A rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with a chili sauce.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- energical — Alternative form of energic.
- englacial — Situated, occurring, or formed inside a glacier.
- euclidean — (rare) alternative spelling of Euclidean.
- evangelic — Evangelical.
- face-nail — to secure with nails driven perpendicular to the surface. Compare toenail (def 4).
- falconine — any of several birds of prey of the family Falconidae, especially of the genus Falco, usually distinguished by long, pointed wings, a hooked beak with a toothlike notch on each side of the upper bill, and swift, agile flight, typically diving to seize prey: some falcon species are close to extinction.
- fanciable — Sexually attractive.
- fanciless — Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
- galenical — an herb or other vegetable drug, distinguished from a mineral or chemical drug.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genetical — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- genically — by a genic process
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- genitalic — Relating to the genitals.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icelandic — of or relating to Iceland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- immanacle — to tie with fetters
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.