9-letter words containing ain
- 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.
- mains gas — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- mains set — an appliance, such as a television or radio, that is powered by mains electricity
- mainsails — Plural form of mainsail.
- mainsheet — a sheet of a mainsail.
- mainstage — The largest performing space in a venue.
- mainstays — Plural form of mainstay.
- maintaine — Obsolete spelling of maintain.
- maintains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maintain.
- maintenon — Marquise de (Françoise d'Aubigné) 1635–1719, second wife of Louis XIV.
- mansplain — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- megachain — A very large and successful chain (group of stores or businesses).
- midbrains — Plural form of midbrain.
- migraines — Plural form of migraine.
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mountainy — living in, located in, or related to mountains
- 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.
- novocaine — Procaine.
- o'faolain — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1900–91, Irish writer and teacher.
- obtaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'obtain'.
- obtaining — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- oil paint — oil color.
- ordaining — Present participle of ordain.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- overgrain — to apply a grainy texture to
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overstain — to stain too much
- overtrain — to train excessively
- packtrain — a line or succession of pack animals, as mules or burros, used to transport food and supplies over terrain unsuitable for wagons or other vehicles.
- painfully — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- paint gun — an air gun that fires paint capsules, as used in paintballing
- paint out — to cover up with or as with a coat of paint
- paint pot — Also, paintpot. a container, as a jar, pail, or bucket, for holding paint while it is being applied.
- paintable — easily painted
- paintball — a game in which players mark their opponents with colored gelatin capsules shot out of an air gun.
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- paintress — a female painter
- paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
- pea-brain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- peneplain — an area reduced almost to a plain by erosion.
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- plain lap — lap joint.
- plain tex — (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- plainness — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plainsman — an inhabitant of the plains.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).