9-letter words containing ni
- nightlike — Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
- nightlong — lasting all night: a nightlong snowfall.
- nightmare — a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
- nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
- nightrobe — A robe to be worn at night; a nightgown.
- nightside — Journalism. the night shift of a newspaper.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
- nightspot — a nightclub.
- nighttide — nighttime.
- nighttime — the time between evening and morning.
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- nightwear — night clothes.
- nigricant — black, blackish, or turning black
- nigritude — complete darkness or blackness.
- nigrosine — any of the class of deep blue or black dyes obtained by the oxidation of aniline, used as coloring agents in inks and shoe polishes and for dyeing leather, wood, textiles, and furs.
- nihilists — Plural form of nihilist.
- nikko fir — a tall evergreen tree, Abies homolepis, native to mountainous areas of Japan, having dark-green needles and purple cones, cultivated as an ornamental.
- nikolayev — a city in S Ukraine, in the SW on the Bug River.
- nile blue — pale greenish blue.
- nilometer — a graduated pillar by which the rise and fall of the Nile can be measured
- nilopolis — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- nilpotent — equal to zero when raised to a certain power.
- nimblewit — an alert, bright, and clever person
- nimieties — Plural form of nimiety.
- nine ball — a variation of pool played with nine numbered object balls that must be pocketed in order by number.
- nine-hole — (of a golf course) having nine holes; relating to a course having nine holes
- nine-spot — a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- ninebarks — Plural form of ninebark.
- nineholes — a game in which the ground, or another object, is drilled with nine holes, each with its own scoring value, and a ball is rolled into them
- ninepence — (used with a plural verb) British. nine pennies.
- ninepenny — noting a nail 2.75 inches (7 cm) long. Symbol: 9d.
- ninescore — the product (180) of nine multiplied by twenty
- nineteens — Plural form of nineteen.
- ninetieth — next after the eighty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 90.
- ninghsien — Yinxian.
- ninhydrin — a white or yellow, toxic, crystalline or powdery compound, C 9 H 4 O 3 ⋅H 2 O, that reddens when heated above 100°C, a monohydrate, soluble in water or alcohol: used primarily as a reagent to detect the presence of various amino acids.
- nino rota — Nino [nee-naw] /ˈni nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–1979, Italian composer.
- niocalite — (mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing calcium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, and silicon.
- nipcheese — a ship's purser
- nipissing — a lake in SE Canada, in Ontario, N of Georgian Bay. 330 sq. mi. (855 sq. km).
- nipperkin — (archaic) A small cup or other vessel, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.
- nippiness — The condition of being nippy.
- nipponese — Japanese
- nirenberg — Marshall Warren, 1927–2010, U.S. biochemist: pioneered studies on the genetic code; Nobel Prize in medicine 1968.
- nit-picky — tending to raise petty objections; pernickety
- nitpicked — Simple past tense and past participle of nitpick.
- nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
- nitramine — any of a class of compounds containing the nitramino group.
- nitramino — containing the nitramino group.
- nitratine — soda niter.