9-letter words containing n, a, p
- in a heap — If someone collapses in a heap, they fall heavily and untidily and do not move.
- in a spin — swooning
- in a spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- in spades — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
- incapable — not capable.
- incapably — In an incapable manner.
- incompact — not compact; loose.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- indalpine — A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor marketed in 1983 as an antidepressant but swiftly withdrawn when found to cause neutropenia.
- inoperant — Not operant.
- inopinate — unexpected
- inpatient — a patient who stays in a hospital while receiving medical care or treatment.
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- japan wax — a pale-yellow, waxy, water-insoluble solid obtained from the fruit of certain sumacs, especially Rhus succedanea, native to Japan and China: used chiefly in the manufacture of candles, furniture polishes, and floor waxes.
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- japanning — any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- jean paul — Burton, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- jet plane — an airplane moved by jet propulsion.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnaping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapped — a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- kidnappee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- knapsacks — Plural form of knapsack.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- la puente — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.