Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 18 compound words that contain nines. The most common are listed below. Open nines in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- dressed to the ninesVery fancily or formally dressed; wearing very showy or splendid clothing.
- Wallace rule of ninesA tool used in prehospital and emergency medicine to estimate the total body surface area affected by a burn, assigning percentages (mostly 9%) to various major body parts.
- cast out ninesTo apply a procedure for verifying whether an arithmetic operation is probably correct or certainly incorrect using modulo characteristics of the digit 9.
- five-ninesplural of five-nine: A 5.9-inch artillery shell of the kind used by Germany in World War I.
- ninety-ninesplural of ninety-nine: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-eight and preceding one hundred.
- all sixes and ninesIn a state of confusion.
- one and ninesCheap seats in a theatre, costing one shilling and nine pence.
- back ninesplural of back nine: The final nine holes of the 18 holes that make up a golf course.
- club ninesplural of club nine: The team.
- false ninesplural of false nine: An unconventional lone striker or centre forward who drops deep into midfield.
- front ninesplural of front nine: The first nine holes of the 18 holes that make up a golf course.
- number ninesplural of number nine: The batsman who bats ninth.
- sixty-ninesplural of sixty-nine: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
- twelve-ninesplural of twelve-nine
- cat-o-ninesplural of cat-o-nine: Alternative spelling of cat-o'-nine, which is short for cat-o'-nine-tails.
- sixes and ninesCurly quotation marks, as opposed to straight quotes.
- dressed up to the ninesAlternative form of dressed to the nines: Very fancily or formally dressed; wearing very showy or splendid clothing.
- up to the ninesStreetwise; knowing.
- four-and-ninesplural of four-and-nine: A cheap hat.
Compound words 18
- PenninesA mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.
- adeninesplural of adenine (multiple adenine molecules)
- alaninesplural of alanine: A nonessential amino acid 2-aminopropanoic acid found in most animal proteins
- azoninesplural of azonine: An unsaturated heterocycle that has eight carbon atoms, a nitrogen atom, and four double bonds.
- candoninesplural of candonine: Any ostracod of the subfamily Candoninae
- chaconinesplural of chaconine: A steroidal glycoalkaloid chemical compound found in plants of the family Solanaceae, responsible for the bitter taste of unripe potatoes.
- cyaninesplural of cyanine: Any of a family of synthetic polymethine blue dyes used in photography etc.
- guaninesplural of guanine: A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).
- indoleninesplural of indolenine: A bicyclic heterocycle that is an isomer of indole, the double bond of the pyrrole ring being between the nitrogen atom and one of the carbon atoms rather than between the two carbon atoms. A synonym of "3H-indole".
- leoninesplural of leonine: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.