9-letter words containing n, e
- affection — If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.
- afferents — Plural form of afferent.
- affianced — betrothed; engaged.
- affiances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affiance.
- affixment — the act of attaching or affixing
- affluence — Affluence is the state of having a lot of money or a high standard of living.
- affluency — affluence (def 2).
- affluents — Plural form of affluent.
- affluenza — the guilt or lack of motivation experienced by people who have made or inherited large amounts of money
- affrended — brought back into friendship
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- affrontee — having faces or fronts towards each other
- affronter — Someone who affronts.
- aforehand — beforehand; in advance
- afrikaner — Afrikaner means belonging or relating to the white people in South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch.
- after-run — the continued running of an internal-combustion engine after the ignition is switched off: Heavy carbon buildup can cause annoying engine after-run.
- afterings — the last of the milk drawn from a cow in milking, which contains the richest milk
- afternoon — The afternoon is the part of each day which begins at lunchtime and ends at about six o'clock.
- afterpain — any pain that follows its cause only after a certain delay
- agamemnon — a king of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy. On his return home he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
- age range — a range indicating the upper and lower ages considered suitable for a specified thing
- agentival — of the performer of an action
- agentless — Without an agent.
- agileness — the quality of being agile
- agistment — the act of agisting
- agnus dei — the figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
- agonistes — a person enduring an inner struggle
- agreation — the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy.
- agreeance — the act or state of agreeing; agreement.
- agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
- agrements — amenities
- agrigento — a town in Italy, in SW Sicily: site of six Greek temples. Pop: 54 619 (2001)
- ahungered — very hungry.
- air-lance — to clean with an air lance.
- airliners — Plural form of airliner.
- airplanes — Plural form of airplane.
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- akhenaten — original name Amenhotep IV. died ?1358 bc, king of Egypt, of the 18th dynasty; he moved his capital from Thebes to Tell El Amarna and introduced the cult of Aten
- akhetaton — the capital of ancient Egypt under the reign of Amenhotep IV: its excavated site is at the modern village of Tell el Amarna.
- al capone — Al(phonse) ("Scarface") 1899–1947, U.S. gangster and Prohibition-era bootlegger, probably born in Italy.
- alabamine — (formerly) astatine. Symbol: Ab.
- alan bean — Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
- albertine — a female given name: derived from Albert.
- albescent — shading into, growing, or becoming white
- albuginea — (anatomy) A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldebaran — a binary star, one component of which is a red giant, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus. It appears in the sky close to the star cluster Hyades. Visual magnitude: 0.85; spectral type: K5III; distance: 65 light years
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- alemannic — the group of High German dialects spoken in Alsace, Switzerland, and SW Germany