9-letter words containing p, a, i, n
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- lindalisp — Linda for Lisp.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- lunchpail — lunchbox.
- main loop — (programming) The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input events. See also driver.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
- mansplain — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- mapmaking — Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- mattaponi — a river in E Virginia, flowing SE to join the Pamunkey and form the York River. 120 miles (193 km) long.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- monopodia — a single main axis that continues to extend at the apex in the original line of growth, giving off lateral branches beneath in acropetal succession.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- napierian — of, relating to, or formulated by John Napier.
- naupathia — (medicine) seasickness.
- nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
- neap tide — either of the two tides that occur at the first or last quarter of the moon when the tide-generating forces of the sun and moon oppose each other and produce the smallest rise and fall in tidal level
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- neophobia — Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of anything new, novel, or unfamiliar.
- neopilina — any primitive mollusk of the genus Neopilina, having a serial repetition of internal organs that suggests a close relationship to the annelids.
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nephridia — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neptunian — pertaining to Neptune or the sea.
- new spain — the former Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere, at one time including South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Florida, and most of the land in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nonimpact — Not involving impact.
- nonpapist — not papist, not Roman Catholic
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nonparity — the condition of having no parity; the state of not being equal
- nonpaying — Not paying.
- nonpliant — not pliant; inflexible