9-letter words containing e, i, n
- asyndetic — (of a catalogue or index) without cross references
- asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- athenians — Plural form of Athenian.
- 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.
- attainted — Law. to condemn by a sentence or a bill or act of attainder.
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
- attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
- attentive — If you are attentive, you are paying close attention to what is being said or done.
- attesting — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attingent — touching; in contact.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
- audiencia — a high court, found in South America during the colonial period
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
- augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
- auntie-ji — a respectful name and form of address given to a woman from the generation older than oneself
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
- austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- availment — (obsolete) Profit; advantage.
- aventaile — avantail
- 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
- avisement — the careful consideration or observation of something
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- awakening — the start of a feeling or awareness in a person
- axminster — a type of patterned carpet with a cut pile
- azine dye — any of various dyes derived from phenazine, used chiefly for dyeing wood, leather, and textiles.
- b-setting — a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open until the shutter control is released
- back nine — the holes of a golf course numbered 10 through 18, regarded as a unit
- 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.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- badinerie — a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- bairnlike — childlike
- baisemain — a kissing of the hand; thus, a sign of respect