9-letter words containing a, t, o, n, i
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- summation — the act or process of summing.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
- tabellion — a scribe or subordinate notary
- tachyonic — characteristic of a tachyon
- taikonaut — an astronaut from the People's Republic of China
- tail cone — a cone-shaped component at the rear of a jet engine, rocket, or missile, usually serving as an exhaust pipe.
- tailoring — a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
- talk into — persuade
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
- tangolike — resembling or characteristic of tango music or dance
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- tarantino — Quentin. born 1963, US film director and screenwriter, noted for violent quirky dramas including Reservoir Dogs (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1998), the two parts of Kill Bill (2003, 2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012)
- tarnation — damnation; hell (used as a euphemism): Where in tarnation is that boy?
- taxonomic — the science or technique of classification.
- tear into — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tenaillon — an outwork shoring up a ravelin
- tensional — the act of stretching or straining.
- tentation — a method of making mechanical adjustments or the like by a succession of trials.
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- testation — witness or evidence
- thanatoid — resembling or like death
- theomania — a delusional mental illness in which a person believes himself or herself to be God or specially chosen by God, as to found a religious order.
- thomasina — a female given name.
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- time loan — a loan repayable at a specified date.
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- titanoboa — a genus of giant prehistoric snake of the Palaeocene epoch, having a body length exceeding 12 metres
- titration — an operation, used in volumetric analysis, in which a measured amount of one solution is added to a known quantity of another solution until the reaction between the two is complete. If the concentration of one solution is known, that of the other can be calculated
- toamasina — a port in E Madagascar, on the Indian Ocean: the country's chief commercial centre. Pop: 198 000 (2005 est)
- tobin tax — a proposed tax on foreign-exchange transactions intended to discourage destabilizing speculation while also raising large revenues that could be channelled to the developing world
- tocantins — a river in E Brazil, flowing N to the Pará River. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
- toccatina — a short toccata
- tocharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- tommasini — Vicenzo [vee-chen-dzaw] /viˈtʃɛn dzɔ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1950, Italian composer.
- tonalitic — relating to or consisting of tonalite
- tonically — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- tonsillar — a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
- tonsorial — of or relating to a barber or barbering: the tonsorial shop.
- topmaking — the art or science of blending wool to meet certain specifications
- torbanite — Petrology. a dark-brown oil shale containing a large amount of carbonaceous matter.
- torsional — the act of twisting.
- toscanini — Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Italian ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Italian ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867–1957, Italian orchestra conductor, in the U.S. after 1928.