9-letter words containing ia
- batrachia — amphibians, including frogs and toads, which have gills and a tail in their larval state, which are discarded later in life
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- bc neliac — Version of NELIAC, post 1962. Sammet 1969, p.197.
- beccaccia — a woodcock
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- bestially — of, relating to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
- bi-endian — Silicon schizophrenia. Processors and other chips that have can be switched to work in big-endian or little-endian mode. The PowerPC chip has this ability, which allows it to run the little-endian Windows NT, or the big-endian Mac OS/PPC.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- biathlete — an athlete taking part in a biathlon
- biaxially — in a biaxial way
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- bilabiate — divided into two lips
- bilharzia — schistosome
- billiards — Billiards is a game played on a large table, in which you use a long stick called a cue to hit balls against each other or into pockets around the sides of the table.
- biophilia — an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind
- biosocial — relating to the interaction of biological and social elements
- biseriate — (of plant parts, such as petals) arranged in two whorls, cycles, rows, or series
- bivariate — (of a distribution) involving two random variables, not necessarily independent of one another
- blue lias — a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone
- boliviano — (until 1963 and from 1987) the standard monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos
- boobialla — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Myoporum, esp M. insulare
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- branchiae — the gills of an aquatic animal
- branchial — of or relating to the gills of an aquatic animal, esp a fish
- brazilian — Brazilian means belonging or relating to Brazil, or to its people or culture.
- brecciate — to form into breccia
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- briarroot — the hard woody root of the briar, used for making tobacco pipes
- briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- britannia — a female warrior carrying a trident and wearing a helmet, personifying Great Britain or the British Empire
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
- burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
- butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
- cachaemia — a poisoned condition of the blood
- cacotopia — a dystopia
- cadential — relating to or belonging to a cadence or a cadenza
- caecilian — any tropical limbless cylindrical amphibian of the order Apoda (or Gymnophiona), resembling earthworms and inhabiting moist soil