9-letter words containing i
- academize — to reduce (a subject) to a rigid set of rules, principles, precepts, etc.: futile attempts to academize the visual arts.
- acalculia — an inability to make simple mathematical calculations
- acanthine — of or resembling an acanthus
- acanthite — the orthorhombic form of silver sulfide.
- acanthoid — resembling a spine; spiny
- acapnotic — Of or pertaining to something that does not smoke, is not a smoker.
- acariasis — infestation of the hair follicles and skin with acarids, esp mites
- acaricide — any drug or formulation for killing acarids
- acaridian — any mite or tick belonging to the order Acarina
- acarnania — region on the W coast of ancient Greece
- acathexis — (pathology) The loss of the ability to respond emotionally.
- accademia — an art gallery in Venice housing a collection of paintings by Venetian masters from the 13th to 18th centuries
- accending — Present participle of accend.
- accension — the state of being ignited or the act of igniting
- accenting — prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.
- accepting — amenable; open: She was always more accepting of coaching suggestions than her teammates.
- acception — (obsolete) acceptation; the received meaning.
- acceptive — ready or willing to accept
- accessing — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accession — Accession is the act of taking up a position as the ruler of a country.
- accessive — Misspelling of excessive.
- accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
- accidents — Plural form of accident.
- accipiter — any hawk of the genus Accipiter, typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- acclaimed — publicly acknowledged as excellent
- acclaimer — One who acclaims.
- acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
- acclivity — an upward slope, esp of the ground
- acclivous — Sloping upward; rising like a hillside.
- according — in proportion; in relation
- accordion — An accordion is a musical instrument in the shape of a fairly large box which you hold in your hands. You play the accordion by pressing keys or buttons on either side while moving the two sides together and apart. Accordions are used especially to play traditional popular music.
- accosting — Present participle of accost.
- accredits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accredit.
- accreting — Present participle of accrete.
- accretion — An accretion is an addition to something, usually one that has been added over a period of time.
- accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
- accroides — an alcohol-soluble resin, obtained from Australian trees, used in paper manufacturing and as a component of varnishes
- accurized — to improve the accuracy of (a firearm).
- ace point — the first point in backgammon.
- acephalic — having no head or one that is reduced and indistinct
- acetamide — a white or colourless soluble deliquescent crystalline compound, used in the manufacture of organic chemicals. Formula: CH3CONH2
- acetified — Simple past tense and past participle of acetify.
- acetifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acetify.
- acetylide — any of a class of carbides in which the carbon is present as a diatomic divalent ion (C22–). They are formally derivatives of acetylene
- achalasia — failure of the cardiac sphincter of the oesophagus to relax, resulting in difficulty in swallowing
- acheilary — having no labellum or lip, or one that is undeveloped, as in the flower of certain orchids.
- acheulian — (in Europe) the period in the Lower Palaeolithic following the Abbevillian, represented by the use of soft hammerstones in hand axe production made of chipped stone, bone, antler, or wood. The Acheulian dates from the Riss glaciation
- achievers — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- achieving — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- achillean — the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow.