9-letter words containing ia
- cornelian — carnelian
- corniglia — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- costalgia — Pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles.
- coulibiac — a Russian dish of rich pastry with a filling of salmon or other fish and mushrooms, onions, egg, buckwheat, dill, etc.
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- covariate — a statistical variable that changes in a predictable way and can be used to predict the outcome of a study
- cranially — With regard to the cranium.
- craniates — Plural form of craniate.
- criterial — of or relating to criteria
- criterias — (nonstandard, proscribed) Plural form of criteria.
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- crucially — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- curialism — the doctrine and methods of the ultramontane party in the Roman Catholic Church
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- cursorial — adapted for running
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cyllenian — of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- daedalian — of Daedalus
- daemonian — demonian.
- dalliance — If two people have a brief romantic relationship, you can say that they have a dalliance with each other, especially if they do not take it seriously.
- dalmatian — A Dalmatian is a large dog with short, smooth, white hair and black or dark brown spots.
- daltonian — relating to John Dalton or his atomic theory
- dandiacal — of the nature of a dandy, like a dandy
- danthonia — any of various grasses of the genus Danthonia, of N temperate regions and South America
- dardanian — Trojan
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- debianize — (Debian) To take a source package and make the necessary modifications to allow it to be built as a policy compliant Debian package.
- decennial — lasting for ten years
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- defiantly — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- deianeira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules, whom she killed unwittingly by giving him a shirt that had been dipped in the poisoned blood of Nessus.
- deliriant — involving or causing delirium.
- delphinia — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- demential — severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.
- demetrias — an ancient city in NE Greece, in Thessaly.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- denialism — Describes the position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence and seek to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.
- denialist — a person who refuses to accept something that is regarded as an established fact
- dentalgia — Toothache.
- desideria — an ardent longing, as for something lost.
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- deviating — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.