9-letter words containing a, p, i
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- neophobia — Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of anything new, novel, or unfamiliar.
- neopilina — any primitive mollusk of the genus Neopilina, having a serial repetition of internal organs that suggests a close relationship to the annelids.
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nephridia — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neptunian — pertaining to Neptune or the sea.
- new spain — the former Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere, at one time including South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Florida, and most of the land in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nonimpact — Not involving impact.
- nonpapist — not papist, not Roman Catholic
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nonparity — the condition of having no parity; the state of not being equal
- nonpaying — Not paying.
- nonpliant — not pliant; inflexible
- noscapine — (biochemistry) A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid obtained from plants of the Papaveraceae family, primarily used for its antitussive effects.
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
- notopodia — Plural form of notopodium.
- nullipara — a woman who has never borne a child.
- nymphalid — a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, comprising the brush-footed butterflies.
- occipital — of, relating to, or situated near the occiput or the occipital bone.
- octaploid — an organism that consists of eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- octapodic — (in poetic metre) having or consisting of eight feet
- oedipally — in an oedipal manner
- oil paint — oil color.
- oil patch — an area in which oil is produced.
- oil-paper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
- oil-plant — any of several plants, as the castor-oil plant or sesame, the seeds of which yield an oil.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- omophagia — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- omphaloid — resembling or similar to the navel
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- opalizing — Present participle of opalize.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- opination — The state or process of opining. For example:.
- opinative — Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
- opiniated — Obsolete form of opinionated.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- oppilated — Simple past tense and past participle of oppilate.
- opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- optatives — Plural form of optative.