11-letter words containing nin
- fountaining — Present participle of fountain.
- fractioning — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- freerunning — Alternative spelling of free running.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- garrisoning — Present participle of garrison.
- gold mining — the act or process of mining gold.
- gun-running — Gun-running is the activity of taking or sending guns into a country secretly and illegally.
- haemocyanin — a blue copper-containing respiratory pigment in crustaceans and molluscs that functions as haemoglobin
- heightening — Present participle of heighten.
- holystoning — Present participle of holystone.
- importuning — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imprisoning — Present participle of imprison.
- in mourning — grieving
- in training — If you are in training, you are preparing yourself for a physical activity such as a race, by taking a lot of exercise and eating special food.
- interlining — something that is written or inserted between lines of writing or print.
- intervening — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
- jettisoning — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- joining fee — a sum of money that you pay in order to become a member of a club, organization, etc, or in order to start receiving a service, such as a phone line
- kaliningrad — a seaport in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Bay of Danzig.
- kalsomining — to wash or cover with calcimine.
- lengthening — (linguistics) a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens.
- lightninged — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
- maddeningly — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- maintaining — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- marathoning — the sport of running marathons
- meaningless — without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant: a meaningless reply; a meaningless existence.
- meaningness — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- megaphoning — Present participle of megaphone.
- meningiomas — Plural form of meningioma.
- meningismus — Meningism without the presence of infection or inflammation.
- meningocele — a protrusion of the meninges through an opening in the skull or spinal column, forming a bulge or sac filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
- mining area — a place where mining, esp for coal, is a traditional industry
- mislearning — Present participle of mislearn.
- misplanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- moonshining — the practice of illegally making or smuggling distilled spirits
- morning gun — a gun fired at the first note of reveille.
- morning tea — a mid-morning snack with a cup of tea
- morningstar — Alternative spelling of morning star.
- morningtide — (poetic) Morning time.
- nincompoops — Plural form of nincompoop.
- nine-eleven — the 11th of September 2001, the day on which the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were flown into and destroyed by aeroplanes hijacked by Islamic fundamentalists
- nineteenths — Plural form of nineteenth.
- ninety-five — a cardinal number, 90 plus 5.
- ninety-four — a cardinal number, 90 plus 4.
- ninety-nine — a cardinal number, 90 plus 9.
- ningxia hui — an administrative division in N China. 25,640 sq. mi. (66,400 sq. km). Capital: Yinchuan.
- ningxia-hui — autonomous region in NW China, on the border of Inner Mongolia: 65,637 sq mi (169,999 sq km); pop. 4,660,000; cap. Yinchuan
- ninnyhammer — a fool or simpleton; ninny.
- ninth chord — a chord formed by the superposition of four thirds.