14-letter words containing ian
- pre-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
- predestinarian — of or relating to predestination.
- premillenarian — a believer in premillennialism.
- prepared piano — a grand piano that has been altered for some modern compositions by having various objects attached to its strings to change the sound and pitch, and performance on which typically involves playing the keys, plucking the strings, slapping the body of the instrument, and slamming the keyboard lid.
- prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
- proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
- proletarianize — to convert or transform into a member or members of the proletariat: to proletarianize the middle class.
- protohistorian — a student of or expert in protohistory
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
- radiant heater — a heater that heats a building by radiant heat emitted from panels containing electrical conductors, hot water, etc
- rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
- right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
- riparian right — a right, as fishing or use of water for irrigation or power, enjoyed by a person who owns riparian property.
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- royal canadian — in the service of the Canadian federal government and the British monarch: Royal Canadian Air Force; Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- russian church — the autocephalous Eastern Church in Russia: the branch of the Orthodox Church that constituted the established church in Russia until 1917.
- russian empire — Russia (def 1).
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
- sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
- siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
- sleeping giant — If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant, you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power.
- solitudinarian — a person who seeks solitude; recluse.
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- supralapsarian — the doctrine that the decree of election preceded human creation and the Fall (opposed to infralapsarianism).
- syrian hamster — golden hamster.
- tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the-bostonians — a novel (1886) by Henry James.
- the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
- trans-siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
- transcaucasian — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- trinitarianism — the belief in, or doctrine of, the Trinity.
- tyrrhenian sea — a part of the Mediterranean, bounded by W Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- unhumanitarian — having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.
- uniformitarian — supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
- universitarian — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- unsectarianism — the state or quality of being unsectarian
- upper canadian — a native or inhabitant of Ontario.
- utilitarianism — the ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility, and that conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons.