10-letter words containing nin
- patterning — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- pertaining — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- piccaninny — pickaninny.
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- pipelining — pipeline
- portioning — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- postponing — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- preopening — taking place before a formal opening
- prewarning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- quickening — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quietening — Present participle of quieten.
- redefining — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- relearning — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
- repiningly — in a repining manner, discontentedly
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- retraining — the process of teaching people, esp workers, new skills
- screenings — the act or work of a person who screens, as in ascertaining the character and competence of applicants, employees, etc.
- scrivening — writing
- sectioning — a part that is cut off or separated.
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
- sixty-nine — a cardinal number, 60 plus 9.
- slackening — an act of becoming looser
- sojourning — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
- stationing — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- stiffening — the act or process of becoming stiff
- stonington — a town in NE Connecticut.
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- stunningly — causing, capable of causing, or liable to cause astonishment, bewilderment, or a loss of consciousness or strength: a stunning blow.
- suntanning — the action or process of acquiring a suntan
- sustaining — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- sweetening — something that sweetens food, beverages, etc., as sugar, saccharine, etc.
- tcherepnin — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
- tensioning — the act of stretching or straining.
- thickening — a making or becoming thick.
- tightening — (of a part of the body) tensing or stiffening
- trephining — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- troponin i — a protein within a troponin complex that helps regulate the heartbeat and can be used as an indicator of myocardial infarction.
- tuning key — a device that may be placed over a wrest pin on a piano, etc, and turned to alter the tension and pitch of a string
- unfeigning — not feigning or pretending
- unfeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- unfrowning — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- uninclined — deviating in direction from the horizontal or vertical; sloping.
- unincluded — being part of the whole; contained; covered: Breakfast is included in the price of the room.
- unindicted — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- uninfected — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- uninfested — to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.