9-letter words containing ni
- 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).
- guanidine — a colorless, crystalline, strongly alkaline, water-soluble solid, CH 5 N 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, resins, rubber accelerators, and explosives.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
- harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- hastening — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- hellenism — ancient Greek culture or ideals.
- hellenist — a person, especially in ancient times, adopting Greek speech, ideas, or customs.
- hellenize — to make Greek in character.
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hemogenia — pseudohemophilia.
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hen night — A hen night is a party for a woman who is getting married very soon, to which only women are invited.
- hennishly — in a hennish manner
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
- herniated — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- hessonite — essonite.
- hibernian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland or its inhabitants; Irish.
- hibernize — to hibernicize
- hiddenite — a rare, transparent variety of spodumene, colored yellow-green to emerald-green by chromium: used as a gem.
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- hoidenish — Alternative form of hoydenish.
- hol-unity — A verification tool for UNITY? Version 2.1. E-mail: Flemming Andersen <[email protected]>?
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- home unit — a self-contained residence which is part of a series of similar residences
- hominines — Plural form of hominine.
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- homotonic — of the same tone
- horniness — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.