9-letter words containing nin
- hyphening — Present participle of hyphen.
- imagining — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
- impugning — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- inburning — burning within
- inclining — an inclined surface; slope; slant.
- interning — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- intwining — Present participle of intwine.
- japanning — any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces.
- jargoning — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- jawboning — a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- kittening — The giving birth of kittens.
- learnings — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- leavening — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
- leninabad — former (1936–91) name of Khodzhent.
- leninakan — a city in NW Armenia.
- leningrad — a former name (1924–91) of St. Petersburg (def 1)
- lesioning — an injury; hurt; wound.
- lessening — to become less.
- lessoning — Present participle of lesson.
- lightning — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
- listening — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- looniness — The state or condition of being loony; craziness, lunacy.
- loosening — Present participle of loosen.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- machining — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- maddening — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- maligning — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- margining — Present participle of margin.
- marooning — to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.
- meaningly — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- melatonin — a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in inverse proportion to the amount of light received by the retina, important in the regulation of biorhythms: in amphibians, it causes a lightening of the skin.
- meningeal — (anatomy) Relating to the meninges.
- menninger — Charles Frederick, 1862–1953, and his sons Karl Augustus, 1893–1990, and William Claire, 1899–1966, U.S. psychiatrists.
- mezzanine — the lowest balcony or forward part of such a balcony in a theater.
- moaningly — With a moaning sound.
- morningly — (obsolete) every morning; daily in the morning.
- motioning — Present participle of motion.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- neatening — Present participle of neaten.
- 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.