9-letter words containing ia
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobohemia — A community of hoboes.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- honoraria — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- horiatiki — a traditional Greek salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta cheese
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- humiliant — humiliating, humbling
- humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hungarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hungary, its people, or their language.
- hydraemia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hymettian — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
- hypanthia — Plural form of hypanthium.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperopia — a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused behind the retina, distant objects being seen more distinctly than near ones; farsightedness (opposed to myopia).
- hyperoxia — (pathology) A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues and organs.
- hypomania — a mania of low intensity.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- hypoxemia — inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- iatrology — Medical science.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- illinoian — Geology. the third stage of the glaciation of North America during the Pleistocene.
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- imagerial — the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
- immediacy — the state, condition, or quality of being immediate.
- immediate — occurring or accomplished without delay; instant: an immediate reply.
- impartial — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- impliable — (archaic) Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
- india ink — black ink made of lampblack, glue
- indianian — Robert (Robert Clarke) born 1928, U.S. painter of pop art.
- indianism — action or policy for promoting the interests of Indians, especially American Indians.
- indianola — a town in central Iowa.
- indonesia — East Indies (def 1).
- indusiate — having an indusium.
- induviate — covered by induviae
- inebriant — an intoxicant.
- inebriate — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- infomania — Impairment of concentration caused by frequent response to text messages, e-mails, and other forms of digital communication.
- infradian — (of a rhythm or cycle ) having a period of recurrence longer than a day; occurring less than once a day.
- infuriate — to make furious; enrage.
- infusoria — Irregular plural form of infusorium.
- ingluvial — of or relating to an ingluvies
- initiable — Able to be initiated.
- initialed — of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in a process.