12-letter words containing nin
- evening gown — a special dress, usually a long one, that a woman wears to a formal occasion in the evening
- evening meal — dinner or supper
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- evening wear — smart clothing designed for wearing at formal occasions during the evening
- excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
- fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
- feminineness — The state or condition of being feminine.
- femininities — Plural form of femininity.
- foretokening — Indication in advance.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- free running — Free running is the activity of running through areas in a town, using skilful movements to jump over walls and other objects.
- frontrunning — the practice by market makers of using advance information provided by their own investment analysts before it has been given to clients
- gale warning — U.S. Meteorology. a National Weather Service warning of sustained winds at sea having speeds in the range 34–47 knots (39–54 mph, 17–24 m/sec). Compare warning (def 3).
- glisteningly — In a glistening manner.
- good evening — greeting
- good morning — hello: before noon
- guillotining — Present participle of guillotine.
- gut-churning — nerve-wracking
- half-turning — split spindle.
- hand-running — in unbroken succession; consecutively.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- honeymooning — (of a married couple) On a honeymoon.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- interjoining — Present participle of interjoin.
- interlinings — Plural form of interlining.
- intertwining — Twist or twine together.
- itapetininga — a city in E Brazil.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
- liothyronine — A form of thyroid hormone used to treat hypothyroidism and myxedema coma.
- long-running — Something that is long-running has been in existence, or has been performed, for a long time.
- mansplaining — (informal, pejorative) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a female listener in order to appear knowledgable or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.
- meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- meningococci — Plural form of meningococcus.
- microphoning — Present participle of microphone.
- misdemeaning — to misbehave (oneself).
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- mishappening — Present participle of mishappen.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- morning coat — a man's cutaway for wear as part of morning dress.
- morning line — a list of entries for a horse race with the probable betting odds as estimated by a bookmaker or track handicapper, usually issued the morning of the race, before wagering begins.
- morning room — In some large, old houses, the morning room is a living room which gets the sun in the morning.
- morning star — a bright planet, especially Venus, seen in the east immediately before sunrise.
- net earnings — income after tax
- new learning — the humanist revival of classical Greek and Latin studies and the development of Biblical scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe.