7-letter words containing nin
- funning — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- gaining — to make a gain or gains in.
- ginning — Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand.
- girning — (Northern England) A light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of England.
- gowning — a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
- groning — Present participle of grone.
- guanine — a purine base, C 5 H 5 N 5 O, that is a fundamental constituent of DNA and RNA, in which it forms base pairs with cytosine. Symbol: G.
- gunning — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- gurning — (Northern England) alternative spelling of girning.
- helenin — A stearoptene from Inula helenium; it is used as an internal and external antiseptic.
- henning — Present participle of hen.
- hominin — any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and all their immediate ancestors, specifically species more closely related to modern humans than to chimpanzees.
- hooning — Present participle of hoon.
- horning — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
- hsining — a city in and the capital of Qinghai province, in W central China.
- hyenine — of or relating to hyenas
- hymning — Present participle of hymn.
- innings — Baseball. a division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it.
- ironing — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- jeanine — a female given name.
- joining — Present participle of join.
- kalinin — Mikhail Ivanovich [myi-khuh-yeel ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /myɪ xʌˈyil iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1946, Russian revolutionary: president of the U.S.S.R. 1923–46.
- keening — a wailing lament for the dead.
- kenning — knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- kerning — Obsolete. a kernel, as of a nut; a grain, as of sand or wheat.
- kooning — Willem [vil-uh m,, wil-] /ˈvɪl əm,, ˈwɪl-/ (Show IPA), 1904–97, U.S. painter, born in the Netherlands.
- la nina — a cool ocean current that develops off the coast of Ecuador and Peru, sometimes following an El Niño but causing nearly the opposite extreme weather conditions.
- laminin — a glycoprotein in animal tissue that is important in binding together the molecules which form the extracellular matrix
- leaning — the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean.
- leonine — of or relating to the lion.
- limning — to represent in drawing or painting.
- linings — Plural form of lining.
- linning — Present participle of lin.
- loaning — Present participle of loan.
- looning — the cry of the loon bird
- luening — Otto, 1900–1996, U.S. composer, conductor, and flutist.
- maining — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
- manning — Henry Edward, 1808–92, English prelate and ecclesiastical writer: cardinal 1875–92.
- mawning — Eye dialect of morning, representing non-rhotic.
- meaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- meconin — a white crystalline substance, C10H10O4, found in opium
- melanin — any of a class of insoluble pigments, found in all forms of animal life, that account for the dark color of skin, hair, fur, scales, feathers, etc.
- meninga — Mal. born 1960, Australian rugby league player: scored 21 tries in 46 internationals (1982–94)
- meninge — (anatomy) meninx.
- moaning — a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
- mooning — the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- morning — the first part or period of the day, extending from dawn, or from midnight, to noon.
- nanning — an administrative division in S China. 85,096 sq. mi. (220,399 sq. km). Capital: Nanning.
- ninepin — The wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle.
- ninette — a female given name.