9-letter words containing i, s, n, a
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- minibeast — (informal) An insect / bug etc.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- ministate — a small, independent nation.
- minnesota — a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul. Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- mintmarks — Plural form of mintmark.
- misandric — One who professes misandry; a hater of men.
- misassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- mischancy — unlucky; unfortunate
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- misdating — Present participle of misdate.
- misdemean — to misbehave (oneself).
- mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mislaying — Present participle of mislay.
- mislearns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislearn.
- mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
- mismating — Present participle of mismate.
- missaying — Present participle of missay.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- missional — a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
- mistaking — Present participle of mistake.
- mitigants — Plural form of mitigant.
- mizenmast — Alternative spelling of mizzenmast.
- mocassins — Plural form of mocassin.
- moccasins — Plural form of moccasin.
- molossian — a breed of dog native to Epirus in NW Greece, used in classical antiquity as a hunting dog and guard dog
- mona lisa — Italian La Gioconda. a portrait (1503?–05?) by Leonardo da Vinci.
- monachism — monasticism.
- monastics — Plural form of monastic.
- monobasic — Chemistry. (of an acid) containing one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- monomials — Plural form of monomial.
- monorails — Plural form of monorail.
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- 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.
- 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.
- musomania — An obsession with music.
- mutations — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- nabonidus — died 539? b.c, last king of Babylonia 556–539 (father of Belshazzar).
- nail-sick — iron-sick.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.