9-letter words containing c, a, i, n
- mortician — funeral director.
- 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".
- 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.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- myoclonia — a disease characterized by myoclonus.
- myomantic — of or relating to myomancy
- nafcillin — A beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nail-sick — iron-sick.
- naissance — a birth, an origination, or a growth, as that of a person, an organization, an idea, or a movement.
- nancified — effeminate
- nanticoke — a member of an extinct North American Indian people who inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
- narcissus — any bulbous plant belonging to the genus Narcissus, of the amaryllis family, having showy yellow or white flowers with a cup-shaped corona.
- narcistic — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- narcotics — Plural form of narcotic.
- narcotine — An alkaloid found in opium; noscapine.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- narcotist — One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
- narcotize — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- naucratis — an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- naumachia — a mock sea fight, given as a spectacle among the ancient Romans.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- nectaried — having a nectary or nectaries
- nectaries — Botany. an organ or part that secretes nectar.
- nectarine — a variety or mutation of peach having a smooth, downless skin.
- nectarize — to mix or saturate with nectar.
- negociant — wine merchant
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- niah cave — a limestone cave in Sarawak, Borneo, the site of the discovery of one of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skulls, dated c38,000 b.c.
- nicaragua — a republic in Central America. 57,143 sq. mi. (148,000 sq. km). Capital: Managua.
- nicknacks — an ornamental trinket or gimcrack; a bit of bric-a-brac.
- nicknamed — Simple past tense and past participle of nickname.
- nicknamer — One who bestows a nickname.
- nicknames — Plural form of nickname.
- nicky-tam — a strap or string secured round a trouser leg below the knee, formerly worn esp by farm workers to keep the trouser bottoms clear of dirt
- nicomedia — an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, at the head of the Gulf of Astacus, in present-day Turkey: modern Izmit is on its site.
- nicotiana — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, especially one grown for its ornamental value, as flowering tobacco.
- nictating — to wink.
- nictation — The action or process of blinking.
- nictitant — adapted for blinking or winking
- nictitate — to wink.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nigricant — black, blackish, or turning black