9-letter words containing n, i, c, e, y
- faineancy — Synonym of faineance.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- finickety — fussy or exacting; a cross between finicky and pernickety
- frenchify — to make (something or someone) resemble the French, as in manners, customs, or dress: to Frenchify the spelling of one's name.
- genically — by a genic process
- genotypic — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- glycerine — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hygienics — hygiene (def 1).
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypopneic — of or relating to hypopnoea
- immanency — remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
- imminency — Also, imminency. the state or condition of being imminent or impending: the imminence of war.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- incensory — Thurible, censer.
- indecency — the quality or condition of being indecent.
- indigency — Indigence.
- indolency — (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- inherency — inherence.
- innocency — innocence (defs 1–6).
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- insolency — Quality of being insolent.
- intercity — a large or important town.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- jockeying — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- line copy — a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1).
- lysocline — the depth of the ocean at which the solubility of calcium carbonate increases substantially.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- minicycle — minibike.
- miscegeny — (rare) Miscegenation.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- myenteric — Relating to or denoting a plexus of nerves of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems situated between and supplying the two layers of muscle in the small intestine.
- myricetin — (organic compound) A particular flavonol, found in many vegetables etc., that has antioxidant and other therapeutic properties.
- necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nictheroy — Niterói.