11-letter words containing ian
- giant panda — panda (def 1).
- giant snail — any land snail of the genus Achatina and related genera, mostly of tropical Africa, having shells up to 9 inches (23 cm) high.
- giant squid — any squid of the genus Architeuthis, inhabiting deep ocean bottoms and sometimes attaining an arm span of 65 feet (20 meters) or more.
- giant steps — a children's game in which a leader calls upon individual players to advance toward him or her in a given number and variety of steps, the object being for one person to tag the leader and for all of them to run back to the starting line without being caught by the leader. Any player who is caught becomes the leader.
- giant-sized — An object that is giant-sized is much bigger than objects of its kind usually are.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- graian alps — a mountain range in France and Italy, in the W Alps. Highest peak, Gran Paradiso, 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- grammarians — Plural form of grammarian.
- grand piano — a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.
- hadrian iii — Saint, Italian ecclesiastic: pope a.d. 884–885.
- hamiltonian — pertaining to or advocating Hamiltonianism.
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- hyperdorian — of or related to the mode above the Dorian mode in ancient Greek music
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- hypoaeolian — of a specific mode of church music
- icarian sea — the part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek islands of Patmos and Leros.
- icosandrian — (of a plant) having at least twenty stamens
- incompliant — not compliant; unyielding.
- indian bean — catalpa.
- indian club — a metal or wooden club shaped like a large bottle, swung singly or in pairs for exercising the arms.
- indian corn — corn1 (def 1).
- indian file — in single file.
- indian hemp — a North American dogbane, Apocynum cannabinum, having erect clusters of greenish-white flowers and a root with laxative and emetic properties.
- indian list — (in Canada) a list of persons to whom spirits may not be sold
- indian meal — cornmeal (def 1).
- indian pipe — a leafless, pearly white, saprophytic plant, Monotropa uniflora, of North America and Asia, having a solitary white flower and resembling a tobacco pipe.
- indian poke — false hellebore.
- indian rice — the wild rice plant.
- indian sign — a magic spell designed to place the victim in one's power or bring him bad luck
- indian wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus pallipes, of Asia south of the Himalayas.
- infirmarian — (in a religious house) a person who nurses the sick.
- infusorians — Plural form of infusorian.
- insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
- invariantly — unvarying; invariable; constant.
- ionian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C.
- irian barat — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- italianizer — a person or thing that Italianizes: In matters of food and dress, he is an Italianizer.
- jiang zemin — born 1926, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1989–2002, president of China 1993–2003.
- julian alps — a range of the Alps in NW Slovenia. Highest peak, Mt. Triglav, 9394 feet (2863 meters).
- justinian i — (Flavius Anicius Justinianus"Justinian the Great") a.d. 483–565, Byzantine emperor 527–565.
- kordofanian — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian that comprises about 30 languages spoken in southern Kordofan.
- kristiansen — Ingrid. born 1956, Norwegian long-distance runner: world 10 000 metres record holder (1986–93)
- lacertilian — belonging or pertaining to the reptilian suborder Lacertilia, comprising the lizards.
- lancastrian — of or relating to the royal family of Lancaster.