9-letter words containing ia
- initially — of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in a process.
- initiated — to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
- initiates — to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
- initiator — SCSI initiator
- insatiate — insatiable: insatiate greed.
- insignias — Plural form of insignia.
- insomniac — a person who suffers from insomnia, the inability, especially when chronic, to obtain sufficient sleep, through difficulty in falling or staying asleep: Her husband, an insomniac, had at last fallen asleep at the computer, head resting on the keyboard.
- insomnias — Plural form of insomnia.
- intarsias — Plural form of intarsia.
- invariant — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- iroquoian — a family of North American Indian languages that includes Cherokee, Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida.
- irradiant — irradiating; radiant; shining.
- irradiate — to shed rays of light upon; illuminate.
- ischaemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischiadic — (obsolete) ischiatic.
- ischiatic — Of or pertaining to the ischium.
- iseikonia — a condition in which a person sees the same image in both eyes
- islomania — an obsessional enthusiasm or partiality for islands
- ismailian — a member of the Ismaʿiliya sect.
- isoniazid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 7 N 3 O, used in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- ixodiasis — a disease that is transmitted by ticks, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jiangling — a city in S Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- jonsonian — Ben, 1573?–1637, English dramatist and poet.
- jordanian — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- justinian — (Flavius Anicius Justinianus"Justinian the Great") a.d. 483–565, Byzantine emperor 527–565.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- kabardian — a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic.
- kaffraria — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kakotopia — Alternative form of cacotopia.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- kaskaskia — a river in E central Illinois, flowing SW to the Mississippi River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- ketonemia — the presence of ketone bodies in the blood.
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- keynesian — of or relating to the economic theories, doctrines, or policies of Keynes or his followers, especially the policy of maintaining high employment and controlling inflation by varying the interest rates, tax rates, and public expenditure.
- kiangling — a city in S Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- kirghizia — a republic in central Asia, S of Kazakhstan and N of Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan). 76,460 sq. mi. (198,500 sq. km). Capital: Bishkek.
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- krakowiak — a lively Polish folk dance in duple meter with syncopated accents.
- kyriarchy — A system of
- la spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- labialise — Alt form labialize.
- labialism — a tendency, sometimes habitual, to make sounds labial, as in pronouncing the l in love as a w- like sound.