9-letter words that end in n
- alabamian — of or relating to Alabama or its inhabitants
- alan bean — Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- 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
- aldington — Richard. 1892–1962, English poet, novelist, and biographer. His novels include Death of a Hero (1929) and The Colonel's Daughter (1931), which reflect postwar disillusion following World War I
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- algonkian — Algonquian
- algonquin — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
- allantoin — a substance derived from the secretions of snails and contained in some plants, used in skin care products and valued for its soothing properties
- allentown — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh River. Pop: 105 958 (2003 est)
- allethrin — a clear viscous amber-coloured liquid used as an insecticide and synergist. Formula: C19H26O3; relative density: 1.005
- almswoman — a woman who gives or receives alms
- alpenhorn — a long, powerful horn of wood or bark, with a cupped mouthpiece and a curved bell at opposite ends, used by Swiss herders and mountaineers.
- always-on — remaining available at all times
- amarantin — a protein contained within the amaranth seed
- amatorian — amatorial
- amazonian — Amazonian means related to the area around the river Amazon.
- ambrosian — exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
- amerasian — People who have one American parent and one Asian parent are sometimes referred to as Amerasians.
- amidation — to convert into an amide.
- amination — to introduce an amino group into (a compound).
- amoebaean — of or relating to lines of verse dialogue that answer each other alternately
- amphibian — Amphibians are animals such as frogs and toads that can live both on land and in water.
- amygdalin — a white soluble bitter-tasting crystalline glycoside extracted from bitter almonds and stone fruits such as peaches and apricots. Formula: C6H5CHCNOC12H21O10
- amylopsin — an enzyme of the pancreatic juice that converts starch into sugar; pancreatic amylase
- anal vein — one of several veins in the rear portion of the wing of an insect.
- analogion — a lectern.
- anatolian — of or relating to Anatolia or its inhabitants
- anchorman — The anchorman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it.
- anchormen — Plural form of anchorman.
- and so on — You use and so on or and so forth at the end of a list to indicate that there are other items that you could also mention.
- anderssen — Adolf (ˈaːdɔlf). 1818–79, German chess player: noted for the incisiveness of his combination play
- anecdoton — (Grecian) alternative spelling of anecdote.
- animalian — any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.
- animation — Animation is the process of making films in which drawings or puppets appear to move.
- animatron — An animatronic robot.
- annelidan — Of or pertaining to the annelids.
- antelucan — occurring before the arrival of daylight, relating to the hours before dawn
- anthelion — a faint halo sometimes seen in polar or high altitude regions around the shadow of an object cast onto a thick cloud bank or fog
- anthemion — a floral design, used esp in ancient Greek and Roman architecture and decoration, usually consisting of honeysuckle, lotus, or palmette leaf motifs
- anthozoan — any of the solitary or colonial sessile marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, including the corals, sea anemones, and sea pens, in which the body is in the form of a polyp
- anti-porn — Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
- antialien — relating to the prevention of foreign animal or plant species from becoming established
- antiauxin — a substance acting against auxin
- antichain — (mathematics) A subset S of a partially ordered set P is an antichain if, for all x, y in S, x <= y => x = y I.e. no two different elements are related. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq).
- anticodon — a three-base unit of genetic code contained in transfer RNA that corresponds to a codon region on messenger RNA, involved in genetic translation
- antidoron — consecrated bread
- antihuman — opposed to or hostile to humanity, inhuman
- antimeson — The antiparticle corresponding to a meson.
- antimycin — an antibiotic drug active against various fungi