9-letter words containing c, a, i, n
- infancies — the state or period of being an infant; very early childhood, usually the period before being able to walk; babyhood.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infectant — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infractor — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infuscate — darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
- injectant — a substance injected through the skin, as bee-sting venom or penicillin administered by injection, that causes an allergic reaction.
- inoculant — inoculum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inorganic — not having the structure or organization characteristic of living bodies.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- insomniac — a person who suffers from insomnia, the inability, especially when chronic, to obtain sufficient sleep, through difficulty in falling or staying asleep: Her husband, an insomniac, had at last fallen asleep at the computer, head resting on the keyboard.
- instanced — Simple past tense and past participle of instance.
- instances — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- interacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interact.
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- interclan — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- interface — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interlace — progressive coding
- interrace — interracial
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- intracity — Within a city.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- intricate — having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze.
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- inviscate — To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- invocated — invoke.
- invocator — invoke.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- isoclinal — of or relating to equal direction of inclination; inclining or dipping in the same direction.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- issuances — Plural form of issuance.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jacketing — Present participle of jacket.
- jackknife — a large pocketknife.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jacobinic — Of or relating to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary.
- jactation — boasting; bragging.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.