8-letter words containing ni
- chamonix — a town in SE France, in the Alps at the foot of Mont Blanc: skiing and tourist centre. Pop: 9514 (2006)
- channing — ˈWilliam Ellery (ˈɛləri ) ; elˈərē) 1780-1842; U.S. Unitarian leader & social critic
- charonic — Classical Mythology. the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead across the Styx.
- chemnitz — a city in E Germany, in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge: textiles, engineering. Pop: 249 922 (2003 est)
- cheniere — a hummock in a marshy region, with stands of evergreen oaks.
- chenille — Chenille is cloth or clothing made from a type of thick furry thread.
- chianina — one of a large breed of beef cattle, originally of Italy, used also as a draft animal.
- chinning — the lower extremity of the face, below the mouth.
- cholinic — Relating to, or obtained from, bile; cholic.
- chronics — Plural form of chronic.
- chthonic — chthonian
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- ciminite — a rock containing large quantities of trachyte
- citrinin — an antibiotic derived from the fungus Penicillium citrinum
- clannish — If you describe a group of people as clannish, you mean that they often spend time together and may seem unfriendly to other people who are not in the group.
- cleaning — the act of removing dirt or something undesirable
- clinical — Clinical means involving or relating to the direct medical treatment or testing of patients.
- clinique — Archaic spelling of clinic.
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- cnidaria — an alternative name for the invertebrate phylum Coelenterata, giving emphasis to the stinging structures as characteristic of the phylum.
- cnidocil — a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.
- cogenial — Alternative spelling of congenial.
- cognises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cognise.
- cognized — Simple past tense and past participle of cognize.
- cognizer — a being that is able to cognize
- cognizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cognize.
- cohenite — a rare microscopic mineral, carbide of iron, nickel, or cobalt, (Fe, Ni, Co) 3 C, found in lunar rocks and some meteorites.
- colonial — Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.
- colonias — (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
- colonics — of or relating to the colon.
- colonies — the subject territories formerly in the British Empire
- colonise — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- colonist — Colonists are the people who start a colony or the people who are among the first to live in a particular colony.
- colonize — If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
- comenius — John Amos, Czech name Jan Amos Komensky. 1592–1670, Czech educational reformer
- compania — company.
- companie — Obsolete spelling of company.
- congenic — (of inbred animal cells) genetically identical except for a single gene locus
- conicity — the state of being conical
- conicoid — a quadric, especially a hyperboloid, paraboloid, or ellipsoid.
- conidial — of or like conidia
- conidium — an asexual spore formed at the tip of a specialized hypha (conidiophore) in fungi such as Penicillium
- conifers — Plural form of conifer.
- coniform — shaped like a cone
- coniosis — any of various diseases or conditions caused by dust inhalation
- connived — Simple past tense and past participle of connive.
- conniver — to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with): They connived to take over the business.
- connives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of connive.
- corniced — having or decorated with a cornice