9-letter words containing ain
- explained — Simple past tense and past participle of explain.
- explainer — Agent noun of explain; one who explains.
- eyestrain — Tiredness or pain in the eyes, sometimes accompanied by headache, caused by excessive or improper use of the eyes, or by uncorrected defects of vision.
- fainaigue — British Dialect. to shirk; evade work or responsibility.
- faineance — Also, faineant [fey-nee-uh nt] /ˈfeɪ ni ənt/ (Show IPA). idle; indolent.
- faineancy — Synonym of faineance.
- faintness — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- feedgrain — any cereal grain used as a feed for livestock, poultry, or other animals.
- filigrain — filigree.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- foodgrain — Cereal (grain grown as human food).
- forebrain — Also called prosencephalon. the anterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate, or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue including the diencephalon and telencephalon.
- fountains — Plural form of fountain.
- gain over — persuade
- gain time — delay sth for advantage
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- gainsayer — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- grainiest — Superlative form of grainy.
- grainless — Without grain.
- grainline — The line of the warp on a piece of fabric.
- grosgrain — a heavy, corded ribbon or cloth of silk or rayon.
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- incertain — Uncertain.
- incurtain — (obsolete) To curtain.
- ingrained — ingrained; firmly fixed.
- ingrainer — a person who ingrains
- ink stain — a mark made by ink
- lamebrain — a dunce; booby; fool.
- land rain — a steady, heavy rain.
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- main beam — a long thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete used in the construction of houses which transmits its load directly to a wall or column, as opposed to another beam
- main body — the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
- main deck — the uppermost weatherproof deck, running the full length of a ship.
- main door — the principal or largest door that is used to enter a building which has more than one door
- main drag — the main street of a city or town; main stem.
- main idea — the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about: Find the main idea in each paragraph.
- main line — a fashionable residential district west of Philadelphia.
- 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.
- main menu — website, DVD, etc.: navigation page
- main road — principal street
- main stem — the main street of a city or town; the main drag.
- main verb — a word used as the final verb in a verb phrase, expressing the lexical meaning of the verb phrase, as drink in I don't drink, going in I am going, or spoken in We have spoken.
- main yard — a yard for a square mainsail.
- mainboard — (computing) motherboard.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- mainlined — Simple past tense and past participle of mainline.
- mainliner — Slang. a person who mainlines.
- mainmasts — Plural form of mainmast.