9-letter words containing ai
- checkrail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- chieftain — A chieftain is the leader of a tribe.
- chiengmai — a town in NW Thailand: teak, silver, silk industries: university (1964). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)
- chilblain — Chilblains are painful red swellings which people sometimes get on their fingers or toes in cold weather.
- chisimaio — a port in S Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
- cirenaica — Cyrenaica
- claiborne — a male given name.
- claimable — Able to be claimed.
- claimants — Plural form of claimant.
- claimless — Having no claim.
- claimsman — an insurance adjuster, especially one dealing with casualty-insurance claims; claims adjuster.
- clickbait — a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the Internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article on another web page.
- coat-tail — the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat
- coattails — If you do something on the coattails of someone else, you are able to do it because of the other person's success, and not because of your own efforts.
- cocainise — Alt form cocainize.
- cocainism — addiction to cocaine
- cocainist — a cocaine addict
- cocainize — to anaesthetize with cocaine
- cockaigne — an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- cockswain — coxswain
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- coleraine — a town in N Northern Ireland, in Coleraine district, Co Antrim, on the River Bann; light industries; university (1965). Pop: 24 089 (2001)
- complains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complain.
- complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
- constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- contained — kept from going beyond certain limits; confined
- container — A container is something such as a box or bottle that is used to hold or store things in.
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.
- copataine — (of a hat) high-crowned
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- creamlaid — (of laid paper) cream-coloured and of a ribbed appearance
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crossrail — a horizontal slat forming part of the back of a chair.
- cuchulain — a legendary hero of Ulster
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtailer — One who curtails.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- dadaistic — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- dado rail — a moulding at about waist height on an interior wall, used for decoration and to protect the wall
- dailiness — the quality or nature of being daily
- daintiest — Superlative form of dainty.
- daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- dairyland — an area or region specializing in dairy production, as Wisconsin and Minnesota in the U.S.
- dairymaid — (esp formerly) a girl or woman who works in a dairy, esp one who milks cows and makes butter and cheese on a farm