9-letter words containing e, a, r, i, n
- arytenoid — denoting either of two small cartilages of the larynx that are attached to the vocal cords
- ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
- aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
- aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
- aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
- asserting — Present participle of assert.
- assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
- assigners — Plural form of assigner.
- astringed — to compress; bind together; constrict.
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
- attainder — (formerly) the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony
- attainers — Plural form of attainer.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- aventurin — Alternative form of aventurine.
- averaging — Present participle of average.
- aversions — Plural form of aversion.
- avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
- avirulent — (esp of bacteria) not virulent
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- bacterins — a vaccine prepared from killed bacteria.
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- bairnlike — childlike
- ballerina — A ballerina is a woman ballet dancer.
- balzarine — a light cotton and wool fabric used for dress-making
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- bandelier — Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840–1914, U.S. anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian, born in Switzerland.
- bandolier — a soldier's broad shoulder belt having small pockets or loops for cartridges
- banisters — the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase; balustrade
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- barenboim — Daniel. born 1942, Israeli concert pianist and conductor, born in Argentina
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- baseliner — a player who plays most of his or her shots from the back of court
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- beaneries — Plural form of beanery.