10-letter words containing ian
- hsiangt'an — a city in E Hunan, in S China.
- hsinhsiang — a city in N Henan province, in E China.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- indian fig — a bushy or treelike cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica, of central Mexico, having large yellow flowers and juicy, red, edible fruit.
- indian ink — (sometimes lowercase) British. India ink.
- indian red — earth of a yellowish-red color, found especially in the Persian Gulf, that serves as a pigment and as a polish for gold and silver objects.
- indian tea — the most popular type of tea in Britain; it has small black leaves, and is stronger than China tea
- indonesian — a member of the ethnic group consisting of the natives of Indonesia, the Filipinos, and the Malays of Malaysia.
- infusorian — any of the Infusoria.
- insouciant — free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
- invariance — The property of being invariant.
- invariants — Plural form of invariant.
- ionian sea — an arm of the Mediterranean between S Italy, E Sicily, and Greece.
- iphianassa — (in the Iliad) a daughter of Agamemnon, offered to Achilles as a wife if he would return to battle against the Trojans.
- irian jaya — 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.
- irradiance — incident flux of radiant energy per unit area.
- irradiancy — Alternative form of irradiance.
- italianate — Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
- italianism — an Italian practice, trait, or idiom.
- italianist — a person who specializes in the study of Italy, the Italian people, or the Italian language.
- italianize — to become Italian in manner, character, etc.
- jacksonian — of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him: Jacksonian democracy.
- jiang qing — 1914–91, wife of Mao Zedong: leader of the Gang of Four, arrested 1976, convicted and jailed 1981.
- johnsonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Samuel Johnson or his works.
- jubilarian — a person who celebrates or has celebrated a jubilee, as a nun observing 25 or more years of religious life.
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- juvenalian — (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
- kaffrarian — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kantianism — the philosophy of Kant, who held that the content of knowledge comes a posteriori from sense perception, but that its form is determined by a priori categories of the mind: he also declared that God, freedom, and immortality, although they cannot be proved or disproved, are necessary postulates of a rational morality
- kashmirian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Kashmir or the Kashmiri.
- kentuckian — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- lamarckian — of or relating to Jean de Lamarck or his theory of organic evolution.
- laminarian — belonging or relating to the laminaria or to the zone where they grow, which is between two and ten fathoms deep
- lapidarian — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- laurentian — of or relating to the St. Lawrence River.
- lawrentian — of, relating to, or characteristic of D. H. Lawrence, his works, or his ideas.
- leibnizian — of or relating to Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, the German rationalist philosopher and mathematician (1646–1716)
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- librarians — Plural form of librarian.
- limitarian — a person who regards salvation as limited to only a part of mankind
- lincolnian — of or relating to Abraham Lincoln, his character, or his political principles.
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- lithuanian — of or relating to Lithuania, its inhabitants, or their language.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- lusitanian — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- luxuriancy — Obsolete form of luxuriance.