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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)
  • bandelierAdolph 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.
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