11-letter words containing ain
- goods train — freight train.
- grain coast — a historic region on the Gulf of Guinea, in W Africa, in present-day Liberia.
- grand chain — a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- heavy chain — a type of polypeptide chain present in an immunoglobulin molecule
- homeodomain — (biochemistry, genetics) A folded protein domain that binds to DNA and has a function in transcription.
- hotel chain — a group of hotels which belong to the same company or owner, or are associated in some way
- house-train — to housebreak.
- in the main — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
- in training — If you are in training, you are preparing yourself for a physical activity such as a race, by taking a lot of exercise and eating special food.
- incertainty — (obsolete) Uncertainty.
- interbrains — Plural form of interbrain.
- interstrain — existing or occurring between two strains
- joukahainen — a Lapp magician who tried to kill Väinämöinen.
- kainic acid — an analogue of glutamate, C 10 H 15 NO 4 , derived from the red alga Digenia simplex, used experimentally to stimulate certain neurons in the brain.
- la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- labor pains — childbirth: contractions
- lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
- latex paint — paint that has a latex binder and can be removed while it is wet by applying water.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- main chance — an opportunity offering the greatest gain: Being ambitious, he always had an eye for the main chance.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- main market — the market for trading in the listed securities of companies on the London Stock Exchange
- main memory — program-addressable storage that is directly controlled by and generally contained in the CPU: except for cache storage, the fastest type of storage available to any computer system.
- main office — headquarters
- main street — a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
- main-de-fer — manifer.
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- mainsprings — Plural form of mainspring.
- mainstreams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mainstream.
- maintainers — Plural form of maintainer.
- maintaining — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- maintopmast — (nautical) The topmast of the mainmast.
- maintopsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- micro saint — (simulation) A general purpose simulation tool from US company Micro Analysis and Design.
- microdomain — (biology) Any of several small regions of a cell membrane that has a distinct structure and a distinct function.
- mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
- mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
- mountaintop — The summit or top part of a mountain.
- mpls domain — (networking) A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
- multi-grain — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.