10-letter words containing mina
- illuminate — to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
- illuminati — People claiming to possess special enlightenment or knowledge of something.
- ingeminate — to repeat; reiterate.
- innominate — having no name; nameless; anonymous.
- inseminate — to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- laminarian — belonging or relating to the laminaria or to the zone where they grow, which is between two and ten fathoms deep
- laminarins — Plural form of laminarin.
- laminarize — to make or design (a surface on an aircraft, or the flow over such a surface) so that it will be laminar
- laminating — Present participle of laminate.
- lamination — act or process of laminating; the state of being laminated.
- liminality — the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility, and follows prescribed forms of conduct, dress, etc.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminarias — Plural form of luminaria.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- minatitlan — a town in Veracruz state,SE Mexico.
- minauderie — affectionate behaviour or flirtation
- minaudiere — a small, sometimes jeweled case for a woman's cosmetics or other personal objects, often carried as a handbag.
- nominalise — to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- nominalism — (in medieval philosophy) the doctrine that general or abstract words do not stand for objectively existing entities and that universals are no more than names assigned to them. Compare conceptualism, realism (def 5a).
- nominalist — An adherent of any of the various kinds of nominalism.
- nominalize — to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- nominately — in a nameable or particular manner
- nominating — Present participle of nominate.
- nomination — an act or instance of nominating, especially to office: The floor is open for nomination of candidates for the presidency.
- nominative — Grammar. (in certain inflected languages, as Sanskrit, Latin, and Russian) noting a case having as its function the indication of the subject of a finite verb, as in Latin Nauta bonus est “The sailor is good,” with nauta “sailor” in the nominative case. similar to such a case in function or meaning.
- prenominal — being such in name only; so-called; putative: a nominal treaty; the nominal head of the country.
- pronominal — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- renominate — to nominate again
- ruminantly — in a ruminant manner
- rumination — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- ruminative — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- seminarian — a student in a theological seminary.
- semination — a sowing or impregnating; dissemination.
- subliminal — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
- surnominal — relating to surnames
- terminable — capable of being terminated.
- terminally — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- terminator — a person or thing that terminates.
- thiaminase — an enzyme that destroys thiamine and is often found in raw fish
- trigeminal — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
- wilhelmina — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
- x terminal — (hardware) An intelligent terminal which operates as an X server directly connected to Ethernet. Not to be confused with the program xterm which is an X client.