9-letter words that end in ian
- multician — (jargon, person) /muhl-ti'shn/ A term coined at Honeywell, ca. 1970 for a competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous "Unician".
- nabothian — Alternative form of Nabothian.
- napierian — of, relating to, or formulated by John Napier.
- neologian — Neological.
- neonomian — someone who holds to neonomianism
- neptunian — pertaining to Neptune or the sea.
- nestorian — one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- newtonian — of or relating to Sir Isaac Newton or to his theories or discoveries: Newtonian physics.
- non-asian — a native or inhabitant of Asia, or a person of Asian descent.
- norwegian — of or relating to Norway, its inhabitants, or their language.
- numantian — of or relating to Numantia or its inhabitants
- oratorian — a member of an Oratory.
- oregonian — of Oregon
- orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- palladian — pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.
- pan-asian — of or relating to all Asian peoples.
- pandemian — sensual
- patrician — a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
- pavlovian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Pavlov or his work, especially of experiments in which he elicited predictable responses from laboratory animals.
- pelasgian — of or relating to the Pelasgians.
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phaeacian — an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
- physician — a person who is legally qualified to practice medicine; doctor of medicine.
- piagetian — of or relating to the theories developed by Jean Piaget.
- planarian — any of various free-swimming, mostly freshwater flatworms of the class Turbellaria, having an undulating or sluglike motion: popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts.
- plotinian — of, relating to, or in accordance with Plotinus or his philosophy.
- plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
- pompeiian — of or relating to Pompeii, or its culture.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- quotidian — daily: a quotidian report.
- rachidian — (anatomy, zoology) Of or relating to the rachis; spinal; vertebral.
- reptilian — belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- ripuarian — designating or pertaining to a group of Franks who lived along the Rhine in the neighborhood of Cologne during the 4th century or the code of laws observed by them.
- roumanian — Romania.
- rubensian — Peter Paul [pee-ter pawl;; Flemish pey-tuh r poul] /ˈpi tər pɔl;; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1577–1640, Flemish painter.
- rubrician — an expert in or close adherent to liturgical rubrics.
- ruthenian — Also, Ruthene [roo-theen] /ruˈθin/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the inhabitants of Ruthenia, Galicia, and neighboring regions.
- sabellian — a member of a group of early Italian peoples including the Samnites and Sabines.
- sahaptian — a family of North American Indian languages consisting of Sahaptin and Nez Percé
- sardinian — of or relating to Sardinia, its inhabitants, or their language.
- sardonian — a person who flatters with harmful or deadly intent
- sarmatian — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- saturnian — of or relating to the planet Saturn.
- sebastian — Saint, died a.d. 288? Roman martyr.