12-letter words containing ain
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- groin strain — damage to the groin area caused by overexertion, esp suffered by a sports player
- hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hare-brained — giddy; reckless.
- hold against — resent sb for sth
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- in its train — If something brings problems or difficulties in its train, the problems or difficulties occur as a natural or logical result of it.
- infotainment — edutainment.
- ink fountain — the part of a printing press that stores ink and feeds it to the rollers.
- iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- irritainment — Entertainment that annoys, embarrasses, or upsets more than or as much as it entertains, whether unintentionally or by design.
- kick against — If you kick against a situation you dislike but cannot control, you react against it in a violent, sudden, or extreme way.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
- link trainer — a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments
- main bearing — one of the bearings in an internal combustion engine upon which the crankshaft rotates
- main-topmast — the mast next above the main lower mast.
- main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
- mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
- mainstreamer — a member of the mainstream.
- maintainable — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- maintainence — Misspelling of maintenance.
- maintenances — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- make certain — ensure
- man-mountain — a man who is very tall and heavily built
- mansplaining — (informal, pejorative) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a female listener in order to appear knowledgable or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- militainment — A form of entertainment that features or celebrates the military.
- mountain ash — variety of tree
- mountain cat — any of various wild feline mammals, such as the bobcat, lynx, or puma
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountain top — the top of a natural upward projection of the earth's surface, higher and steeper than a hill and often having a rocky summit
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
- mountainness — The property of being a mountain, or of being mountainlike.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- net curtains — curtains made of a thin light mesh fabric of cotton, nylon, or other fibre
- nonrestraint — absence or lack of restraint.
- oil painting — the art or technique of painting with oil colors.
- on the brain — constantly in mind
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.