9-letter words containing a, n, t, i, l
- mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
- mentalize — (usually, in passive) To make mental in nature, rather than physical.
- mentorial — Of or relating to a mentor.
- metalline — metallic.
- metalling — Present participle of metal.
- militance — (uncountable) The condition of being militant.
- militancy — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- militants — Plural form of militant.
- miltonian — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- montclair — a city in NE New Jersey.
- multiband — Having or employing multiple bands, especially frequency bands.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- multician — (jargon, person) /muhl-ti'shn/ A term coined at Honeywell, ca. 1970 for a competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous "Unician".
- multilane — (of a road or of vehicular traffic) Having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- myelinate — Of, related to, or composed of myelin.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- nathaniel — Bartholomew (def 1).
- nationals — Plural form of national.
- natrolite — a white or colorless zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum, Na 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅2H 2 O, often occurring in acicular crystals.
- naughtily — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- nautiloid — a mollusk of the subclass Nautiloidea, including nautiluses and many fossil species that were abundant in the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
- navy list — (in Britain) an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the Royal Navy and reserve officers liable for recall
- neat line — a line defining a limit or edge of an excavation, cut stone, etc.
- neo-latin — New Latin.
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- new latin — the Latin that became current, notably in scientific literature, after the Renaissance, c1500. Abbreviation: NL, NL., N.L.
- niellated — inlaid with niello
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- niocalite — (mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing calcium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, and silicon.
- noctiluca — a dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, capable of producing light and, in groups, of causing a luminous appearance of the sea.
- noncoital — not involving sexual intercourse
- nonpliant — not pliant; inflexible
- nontribal — not related to, originating from, or involving a tribe or tribes
- normality — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- nostalgia — a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.
- nostalgic — experiencing or exhibiting nostalgia, a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation.
- notabilia — things worthy of notice
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
- noticable — Misspelling of noticeable.
- nyctalgia — night pain that occurs in the sleep.
- oblations — Plural form of oblation.
- octennial — occurring every eight years.
- oil paint — oil color.
- oil-plant — any of several plants, as the castor-oil plant or sesame, the seeds of which yield an oil.
- old latin — the Latin language in use from the earliest inscriptions to c100 b.c. Abbreviation: OL, OL., O.L.
- olfaction — the act of smelling.
- ontically — In an ontic sense.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.