8-letter words that end in ian
- lacanian — of or relating to the ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, esp his interpretations of language and linguistics in psychoanalytic contexts
- laconian — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- laingian — of or based on R. D. Laing's theory that mental illnesses are understandable as natural responses to stress in family and social situations
- latinian — Latino-Faliscan.
- lesghian — Lezghian.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- liberian — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- livonian — a former Russian province on the Baltic: now part of Latvia and Estonia.
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- lunarian — a being supposedly inhabiting the moon.
- lusatian — a native or inhabitant of Lusatia.
- magician — an entertainer who is skilled in producing illusion by sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; conjurer.
- malarian — (dated) Relating to malaria; malarial.
- malawian — Formerly Nyasaland. a republic in SE Africa, on the W and S shores of Lake Malawi: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence July 6, 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 49,177 sq. mi. (127,368 sq. km). Capital: Lilongwe.
- masurian — of or relating to Masuria, a region of NE Poland, or its inhabitants
- medician — (chiefly in science fiction) A physician, a medical doctor; a medic.
- melanian — a freshwater mollusc of the former family Melaniidae. The Melaniidae family is now separated into the Thiaridae, Pleuroceridae, and Melanopsidae families.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- meridian — a city in E Mississippi.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- mondrian — Piet [peet] /pit/ (Show IPA), (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan) 1872–1944, Dutch painter.
- moravian — pertaining to Moravia or its inhabitants.
- musician — a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.
- namibian — a republic in SW Africa: a former German protectorate; a mandate of South Africa 1920–66; gained independence 1990. 318,261 sq. mi. (824,296 sq. km). Capital: Windhoek.
- natalian — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
- natufian — designating or of a Mesolithic culture of the Near East characterized by microliths, sickles, pestles, etc.: it offers the first evidence of reaping and grinding cereals
- nicotian — the tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum; tobacco itself
- nigerian — a republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 356,669 sq. mi. (923,773 sq. km). Capital: Abuja.
- noachian — of or relating to the patriarch Noah or his time.
- nonavian — Not avian.
- numidian — an ancient country in N Africa, corresponding roughly to modern Algeria.
- nutarian — a person whose food intake consists chiefly of nuts or nut-based products or dishes
- obsidian — a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- oceanian — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. About 3,450,000 sq. mi. (8,935,500 sq. km).
- octavian — (Octavian) died a.d. 964, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 955–964.
- olympian — pertaining to Mount Olympus or dwelling thereon, as the gods of classical Greece.
- ontarian — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
- ophidian — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- orcadian — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- ossetian — Also, Ossetic. of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossetia, a region in Caucasia, or the Ossets, the people living there.
- ottonian — of or relating to the German dynasty (Otto I, II, III) that ruled as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire from 962 to 1002.
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- papinian — (Aemilius Papinianus) died a.d. 212, Roman jurist and writer.
- parisian — a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- parthian — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- pelagian — a follower of Pelagius, who denied original sin and believed in freedom of the will.
- penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.