12-letter words containing ian
- self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
- semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- sexagenarian — of the age of 60 years or between 60 and 70 years old.
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
- square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
- statistician — an expert in or compiler of statistics.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stravinskian — of, relating to, or suggesting the composer Igor Stravinsky or his works.
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- strontianite — a mineral, strontium carbonate, SrCO 3 , occurring in radiating, fibrous, or granular aggregates and crystals, varying from white to yellow and pale green: a minor ore of strontium.
- sublapsarian — infralapsarianism.
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
- the alliance — the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party acting or regarded as a political entity from 1981 to 1988
- the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
- the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
- the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
- the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
- the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
- thermidorian — a member of the French moderate group who participated in the downfall of Robespierre and his followers on the 9th Thermidor (July 27th), 1794.
- thessalonian — of or relating to Thessalonike or its inhabitants.
- totalitarian — of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.
- traducianism — the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body. Compare creationism (def 3).
- transvaalian — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- triunitarian — Trinitarian.
- trustafarian — a young person from a wealthy background whose trust fund enables him or her to eschew conventional attitudes to work, dress, drug taking, etc
- turbellarian — belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.
- ubiquitarian — of or relating to the doctrine, especially as advocated by Luther, that the body of Christ is omnipresent and therefore exists in the Eucharistic bread.
- unitarianism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Unitarians. Compare Unitarian Universalism.
- variant form — a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
- vaudevillian — Also, vaudevillist. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville.
- venetian red — a red pigment, originally prepared from a natural oxide of iron, now usually made by calcining a mixture of lime and ferrous sulfate.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- veterinarian — a person who practices veterinary medicine or surgery.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- wusuli jiang — Ussuri.
- yalong jiang — a river in central and S China, flowing S to the Yangtze River. 800 miles (1287 km) long.