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11-letter words that end in ine

  • ginger wine — an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
  • heat engine — a mechanical device designed to transform part of the heat entering it into work.
  • helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
  • hib vaccine — a vaccine against meningitis, pneumonia, and other illnesses caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b: usually administered during infancy.
  • hyacinthine — of or like the hyacinth.
  • hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
  • hydroxyzine — an antihistaminic compound, C 21 H 27 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergy, nausea, and anxiety.
  • hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
  • hypersaline — Having an abnormally high salinity.
  • ice machine — machine that makes ice cubes
  • idoxuridine — a thymidine analogue, C 9 H 11 IN 2 O 5 , used topically for the ocular treatment of herpes simplex keratitis.
  • incarnadine — blood-red; crimson.
  • indoleamine — (chemistry) any of a class of amino derivatives of indole.
  • internecine — of or relating to conflict or struggle within a group: an internecine feud among proxy holders.
  • isoxsuprine — a sympathomimetic vasodilator, C 18 H 23 NO 3 , used in certain types of peripheral vascular disease.
  • jersey pine — Virginia pine.
  • knotty pine — pine wood with many knots
  • la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
  • lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
  • landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
  • langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
  • lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • leased line — (communications, networking)   A private telephone circuit permanently connecting two points, normally provided on a lease by a local PTT.
  • ledger line — Also, leger line. Also called added line. Music. a short line added when necessary above or below the staff to increase the range of the staff.
  • limber pine — a pine, Pinus flexilis, of western North America, having light, soft wood used locally for railroad ties, poles, fuel, etc.
  • lower rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
  • lubber line — a vertical line on the forward inner side of the bowl of a fixed compass, used as a reference mark indicating the heading of a vessel.
  • margin line — an imaginary line used in making calculations regarding the flooding of hulls, running fore-and-aft 3 inches (8 cm) below the upper surface of the bulkhead deck at the side.
  • methenamine — hexamethylenetetramine.
  • methylamine — any of three derivatives of ammonia in which one or all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced by methyl groups, especially a gas, CH 5 N, with an ammonialike odor, the simplest alkyl derivative of ammonia and, like the latter, forming a series of salts.
  • minocycline — a long-acting, broad-spectrum, semisynthetic antibiotic drug, C 2 3 H 2 7 N 3 O 7 , derived from tetracycline.
  • mirtazapine — (medicine) A tetracyclic antidepressant drug.
  • monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
  • most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
  • mulled wine — wine heated with sugar and spices, often served at Christmas
  • multiengine — Having more than one engine.
  • nanomachine — nanobot.
  • naphazoline — 2-(1-naphthylmethyl)-2-imidazoline hydrochloride, a sympathomimetic agent used as a vasoconstrictor.
  • naphthaline — Naphthalene.
  • neostigmine — a synthetic anticholinesterase, C 1 2 H 1 9 N 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of myasthenia gravis, glaucoma, and postoperative urinary bladder distention.
  • new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
  • ninety-nine — a cardinal number, 90 plus 9.
  • nitraniline — (chemistry) Any of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline.
  • nitrosamine — any of a series of compounds with the type formula R 2 NNO, some of which are carcinogenic, formed in cured meats by the conversion of nitrite.
  • non-genuine — possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.
  • nornicotine — an alkaloid, C 9 H 1 2 N 2 , extracted from tobacco and related to nicotine but having a lower toxicity: used as an agricultural and horticultural insecticide.
  • norway pine — red pine.
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