9-letter words containing t, l, i, n
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- montville — a town in SE Connecticut.
- moonlight — the light of the moon.
- multiband — Having or employing multiple bands, especially frequency bands.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- multician — (jargon, person) /muhl-ti'shn/ A term coined at Honeywell, ca. 1970 for a competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous "Unician".
- multilane — (of a road or of vehicular traffic) Having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.
- multiline — Consisting of multiple lines.
- multipion — involving several or many pions
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- multisync — (hardware) An NEC trademark term for multiscan. As NEC was the first to manufacture multiscan monitors the term is often used interchangeably with multiscan.
- multitone — having or characterized by more than one musical tone
- multiunit — a single thing or person.
- multizone — Of or pertaining to more than one zone.
- musteline — belonging or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, including the martens, skunks, minks, weasels, badgers, and otters.
- myelinate — Of, related to, or composed of myelin.
- mylonitic — relating to or resembling mylonite
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- nathaniel — Bartholomew (def 1).
- nationals — Plural form of national.
- natrolite — a white or colorless zeolite mineral, a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum, Na 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 ⋅2H 2 O, often occurring in acicular crystals.
- naughtily — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- nautiloid — a mollusk of the subclass Nautiloidea, including nautiluses and many fossil species that were abundant in the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
- navy list — (in Britain) an official list of all serving commissioned officers of the Royal Navy and reserve officers liable for recall
- neat line — a line defining a limit or edge of an excavation, cut stone, etc.
- negligent — guilty of or characterized by neglect, as of duty: negligent officials.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neo-latin — New Latin.
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- neologist — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nestlings — Plural form of nestling.
- netbollix — ["bollix": to bungle] IBM's NetBIOS, an extremely brain-damaged network protocol that, like Blue Glue, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
- neurility — the ability belonging to nerves to conduct electrical impulses
- new latin — the Latin that became current, notably in scientific literature, after the Renaissance, c1500. Abbreviation: NL, NL., N.L.
- niccolite — nickeline.
- nicolette — a female given name, form of Nicole.
- niellated — inlaid with niello
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nightclub — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
- nightless — the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
- nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
- nightlike — Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
- nightlong — lasting all night: a nightlong snowfall.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
- nihilists — Plural form of nihilist.