11-letter words that end in ian
- panglossian — characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
- paralympian — a competitor in the Paralympics
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- pescatarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- pescetarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but includes fish and seafood.
- philologian — a philologist.
- phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
- pickwickian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Mr. Pickwick, central character of The Pickwick Papers.
- planetarian — a staff member at a planetarium.
- plumularian — a member of the genus Plumularia
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- pornotopian — of or relating to a pornotopia
- postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- pre-exilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- rabelaisian — of, relating to, or suggesting François Rabelais, whose work is characterized by broad, coarse humor and keen satire.
- radiolarian — any minute, marine protozoan of the class Radiolaria, or, in some classification schemes, the superclass Actinopoda, having an amebalike body with radiating, filamentous pseudopodia and a usually elaborate outer skeleton.
- rastafarian — a follower of Rastafarianism.
- reid, brian — Brian Reid
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rosicrucian — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a person who belonged to a secret society laying claim to various forms of occult knowledge and power and professing esoteric principles of religion.
- sabbatarian — a person who observes the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the Sabbath.
- sagittarian — a person born under Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac; a Sagittarius.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- sarcodinian — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- saturnalian — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
- saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
- semiotician — the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- sigillarian — resembling the fossilized, tree-like plants of the genus Sigillaria
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- spinsterian — relating to a spinster
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
- syndyasmian — pertaining to sexual pairing without exclusive co-habitation
- synthespian — a computer-generated image of a film actor, esp used in place of the real actor when shooting special effects or stunts
- tennysonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Tennyson or his writings.
- territorian — an inhabitant of the Northern Territory
- tetragynian — related to or belonging to the Tetragynia class of plants having four pistils
- tetrandrian — having four stamens or related to the class Tetrandria
- the permian — the Permian period or rock system
- thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- torontonian — a city in and the capital of Ontario, in SE Canada, on Lake Ontario.
- trachearian — of or relating to the Trachearia, which is a division of arachnids that breathe through the trachea
- trinidadian — an island in the SE West Indies, off the NE coast of Venezuela: formerly a British colony in the Federation of the West Indies; now part of the republic of Trinidad and Tobago. 1864 sq. mi. (4828 sq. km).
- trinitarian — believing in or adhering to the doctrine of the Trinity.
- unchristian — not conforming to Christian teaching or principles: unchristian selfishness.