9-letter words containing ia
- geriatric — of or relating to geriatrics, old age, or aged persons.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- gesneriad — any of various, chiefly tropical plants of the gesneria family.
- ghaziabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N central India, near New Delhi.
- gianthood — the condition of being a giant
- giantlike — Like a giant; enormous.
- giantship — the character, condition, or personality of a giant
- glacially — of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaciated — Covered or having been covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
- glaciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaciate.
- gladiator — (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
- glochidia — glochid.
- gloxinias — Plural form of gloxinia.
- glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- goliathan — huge; gigantic
- goniatite — An ammonoid fossil of an early type found chiefly in the Devonian and Carboniferous periods, typically with simple angular suture lines.
- gorgonian — any of numerous alcyonarian corals of the order Gorgonacea, having a usually branching, horny or calcareous skeleton.
- grampians — a region in E Scotland. 3361 sq. mi. (8704 sq. km).
- gregarian — (obsolete) gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort.
- gregorian — of or relating to any of the popes named Gregory, especially Gregory I or Gregory XIII.
- grenadian — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- grid bias — the potential difference applied between a grid and the cathode of a vacuum tube.
- grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
- grudziadz — a city in N Poland, on the Vistula River.
- guamanian — an island, belonging to the U.S., in the N Pacific, E of the Philippines: the largest of the Marianas group; U.S. naval station. 206 sq. mi. (535 sq. km). Capital: Agaña. Abbreviation: GU (for use with zip code).
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- gymnasial — relating to gymnasium schools
- hadrian i — died a.d. 795, pope 772–795.
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- hagiarchy — hagiocracy.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haworthia — any of various succulent plants of the genus Haworthia, native to South Africa, having densely overlapping, often warty leaves clustered in rosettes.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- hematuria — the presence of blood in the urine.
- hemialgia — pain or neuralgia involving only one side of the body or head.
- hemogenia — pseudohemophilia.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- herniated — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hibernian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland or its inhabitants; Irish.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses