9-letter words containing nai
- awl snail — any tiny, usually white land snail of the family Subulinidae, some introduced species being pests of hothouse flowers.
- bearnaise — rich sauce made from egg yolks, lemon juice or wine vinegar, butter, shallots, herbs, and seasoning
- boat nail — a nail with a convex head and a chisel point.
- cirenaica — Cyrenaica
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- debonaire — charming and sophisticated
- dew snail — a slug
- doornails — Plural form of doornail.
- face-nail — to secure with nails driven perpendicular to the surface. Compare toenail (def 4).
- fainaigue — British Dialect. to shirk; evade work or responsibility.
- faux-naif — marked by a pretense of simplicity or innocence; disingenuous.
- fine nail — a short steel finishing nail from 1 to 1½ inches (2.5 to 3.8 cm) long.
- form nail — a nail used in building temporary structures, having a stop on its shank to prevent its being driven in all the way and to leave the head free for pulling.
- hangnails — Plural form of hangnail.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- inaidable — incapable of being helped or aided; beyond help
- knaidlach — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- lig snail — banded Florida tree snail.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- lyonnaise — (of food, especially fried potatoes) cooked with pieces of onion.
- milanaise — served with macaroni, or sometimes spaghetti, that has been flavored with tomatoes, mushrooms, shredded meat, etc.: veal cutlets à la milanaise.
- nail bomb — an explosive device packed with nails or similar metal objects that act as shrapnel.
- nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- nail file — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- nail-down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- nail-sick — iron-sick.
- nailbiter — the act or practice of biting one's fingernails, especially as the result of anxiety or nervousness.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- nailed-on — certain, definite; guaranteed to be successful
- naissance — a birth, an origination, or a growth, as that of a person, an organization, an idea, or a movement.
- naiveness — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- naiveties — Plural form of naivety.
- nivernais — a former province in central France. Capital: Nevers.
- ordinaire — an ordinary table wine
- orleanais — a former province in N France. Capital: Orléans.
- paranaiba — a river in W Minas Gerais, S central Brazil, flowing W and joining the Rio Grande to form the Paraná River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- sea snail — any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
- snail cam — a cam with spiral cross section used for progressive lifting of a lever as the cam revolves
- snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
- stub nail — a short, thick nail.
- tannaitic — one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.
- tenaillon — an outwork shoring up a ravelin
- thumbnail — the nail of the thumb.
- unaidable — not able to be helped or aided
- unaidedly — without assistance
- yanktonai — a member of one of two tribes of Dakota Indian people who inhabited the northern Great Plains in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compare Yankton (def 1).
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