9-letter words containing n, a, r, i, l
- germinals — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the seventh month of the year, extending from March 21 to April 19.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- girandole — a rotating and radiating firework.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.
- glariness — Quality of being glary; a dazzling brilliancy.
- glaringly — shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
- gnarliest — gnarled.
- grabbling — Present participle of grabble.
- grainless — Without grain.
- grainline — The line of the warp on a piece of fabric.
- granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
- granulite — a metamorphic rock composed of granular minerals of uniform size, as quartz, feldspar, or pyroxene, and showing a definite banding.
- granville — Earl of, Carteret, John.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grappling — a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
- gratingly — irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
- graveling — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
- graylings — Plural form of grayling.
- greenmail — the practice of buying a large block of a company's stock in order to force a rise in stock prices or an offer by the company to repurchase that block of stock at an inflated price to thwart a possible takeover bid.
- grill pan — a wide, shallow metal vessel used to contain food that is being cooked under a grill
- grimalkin — a cat.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- hairlines — Plural form of hairline.
- haltering — Present participle of halter.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- harmaline — a chemical derived from the harmala plant, used as a hallucinogen or used in conjunction with other hallucinogens
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- heartling — a term of endearment, little heart
- heraklion — Iraklion
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- ilmarinen — one of the heroes of the Kalevala.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- in-thrall — to captivate or charm: a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences.
- inaugural — of or relating to an inauguration: Harding's inaugural address.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.