9-letter words that end in an
- costanoan — a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock.
- cot-quean — Archaic. a man who busies himself with traditionally women's household duties.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- cracksman — a burglar, esp a safe-breaker
- craftsman — A craftsman is a man who makes things skilfully with his hands.
- cranachan — a Scottish dessert made with oatmeal, cream, and whisky
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- cyclopean — of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cyllenian — of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- daedalean — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- daedalian — of Daedalus
- daemonian — demonian.
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- dalmatian — A Dalmatian is a large dog with short, smooth, white hair and black or dark brown spots.
- daltonian — relating to John Dalton or his atomic theory
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- dangerman — (sports, British) A player on an opposing side who poses a significant threat.
- dardanian — Trojan
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- day-clean — the time after first dawn when the sun begins to shine; clear daybreak
- de morgan — Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
- deathsman — an executioner
- demeraran — originating from or native to Demerara
- dentalman — an enlisted person working as a dental assistant.
- dietarian — Somebody following a diet, a dieter.
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- dietitian — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- dimyarian — with two adductor muscles
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- doggerman — a sailor on a dogger
- dominican — of or relating to the Dominican Republic.
- doorwoman — the female door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and performs minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- draconian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Athenian statesman Draco, or his severe code of laws.
- draftsman — draughtsman (def 1).
- dravidian — a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dundonian — a native or inhabitant of Dundee
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- ealdorman — alderman.
- early man — early hominids, precursors of the human race in its present form
- ecotarian — An ecotarian is a person who eats only food that has been produced in a way that does not harm the environment.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ediacaran — of, denoting, or formed in the last 50 million years of the Neoproterozoic era, during which a new texturally and chemically distinctive carbonate layer appeared, indicating climatic change
- edwardian — of or relating to the reign of Edward VII.