9-letter words containing ian
- 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.
- 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.
- deviances — deviant quality or state.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- dietarian — Somebody following a diet, a dieter.
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- dietitian — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- draconian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Athenian statesman Draco, or his severe code of laws.
- dravidian — a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- dundonian — a native or inhabitant of Dundee
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- ecotarian — An ecotarian is a person who eats only food that has been produced in a way that does not harm the environment.
- edwardian — of or relating to the reign of Edward VII.
- ephesians — a book of the New Testament (in full The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians), containing an exposition of the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ
- epinician — relating to an epinicion; celebrating triumph
- estuarian — relating to an estuary
- ethiopian — person from Ethiopia
- eutherian — A mammal of the major group Eutheria, which includes all the placentals and excludes the marsupials and monotremes.
- exfoliant — A cosmetic product designed to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- expediant — Misspelling of expedient.
- extropian — Of, or relating to extropy.
- fabianism — the theories of economic and social reform advocated by the Fabian Society.
- falernian — (especially of a wine celebrated by Horace) of, coming from, or made in a district of Campania, Italy.
- fallopian — Alternative form of Fallopian.
- floridian — of or relating to the state of Florida.
- fossarian — fossor.
- galatians — a book in the New Testament, written to the Christians in Galatia. Abbreviation: Gal.
- galwegian — of or relating to the region of Galloway, Scotland.
- gas giant — one of the four planets in our solar system that are composed chiefly of hydrogen and helium, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
- gaziantep — a city in S Turkey in Asia.
- geminiani — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), c1680–1762, Italian violinist and composer.
- georgiana — a female given name.
- gianthood — the condition of being a giant
- giantlike — Like a giant; enormous.
- giantship — the character, condition, or personality of a giant
- gorgonian — any of numerous alcyonarian corals of the order Gorgonacea, having a usually branching, horny or calcareous skeleton.
- grampians — a region in E Scotland. 3361 sq. mi. (8704 sq. km).
- gregarian — (obsolete) gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort.
- gregorian — of or relating to any of the popes named Gregory, especially Gregory I or Gregory XIII.
- grenadian — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- guamanian — an island, belonging to the U.S., in the N Pacific, E of the Philippines: the largest of the Marianas group; U.S. naval station. 206 sq. mi. (535 sq. km). Capital: Agaña. Abbreviation: GU (for use with zip code).
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- hadrian i — died a.d. 795, pope 772–795.