9-letter words containing a, t, o, n, i
- probation — the act of testing.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- pronation — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the surface of the palm is facing downward or toward the back (opposed to supination).
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- proration — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- quotation — something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.: a speech full of quotations from Lincoln's letters.
- quotidian — daily: a quotidian report.
- rabbit on — talk incessantly
- raciation — the evolutionary development of races
- radiation — Physics. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body. the energy transferred by these processes.
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- rationale — the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
- rationing — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- re-anoint — to anoint (a person or thing) again
- re-obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- read into — If you read a meaning into something, you think it is there although it may not actually be there.
- reappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- reboation — a repeated bellowing sound
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- reptation — a creeping motion; the act of crawling
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- ritonavir — a type of anti-viral drug used to treat HIV infection and AIDS
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- rollatini — a dish consisting of thin slices of poultry or meat rolled around a filling, especially of ham and cheese, and baked in a sauce.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- ructation — an eructation or belch
- ruination — the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.
- ruminator — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sail into — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sainthood — the character or status of a saint.