Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NER often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: abandoner, abstainer, bargainer.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| abandoner | 9 | 4 | |
| abstainer | 9 | 3 | |
| bargainer | 9 | 3 | |
| baseliner | 9 | 4 | |
| blackener | 9 | 3 | |
| carabiner | 9 | 4 | |
| caravaner | 9 | 4 | |
| certainer | 9 | 3 | |
| chastener | 9 | 3 | |
| condemner | 9 | 3 | |
| container | 9 | 3 | |
| contemner | 9 | 3 | |
| copartner | 9 | 3 | |
| dethroner | 9 | 3 | |
| discerner | 9 | 3 | |
| easterner | 9 | 3 | |
| entrainer | 9 | 3 | |
| explainer | 9 | 3 | |
| fashioner | 9 | 3 | |
| flattener | 9 | 3 | |
| foreigner | 9 | 3 | |
| forlorner | 9 | 3 | |
| freshener | 9 | 3 | |
| gunrunner | 9 | 3 | |
| harpooner | 9 | 3 | |
| headliner | 9 | 3 | |
| homeowner | 9 | 3 | |
| karabiner | 9 | 4 | |
| lampooner | 9 | 3 | |
| landowner | 9 | 3 | |
| lightener | 9 | 3 | |
| mentioner | 9 | 3 | |
| missioner | 9 | 3 | |
| moistener | 9 | 3 | |
| nonjoiner | 9 | 3 | |
| nonsigner | 9 | 3 | |
| pensioner | 9 | 3 | |
| postponer | 9 | 3 | |
| predinner | 9 | 3 | |
| purloiner | 9 | 3 | |
| quickener | 9 | 3 | |
| rumrunner | 9 | 3 | |
| scrivener | 9 | 3 | |
| sharpener | 9 | 3 | |
| shipowner | 9 | 3 | |
| shortener | 9 | 3 | |
| sideliner | 9 | 4 | |
| sojourner | 9 | 3 | |
| stationer | 9 | 3 | |
| stiffener | 9 | 3 | |
| sundowner | 9 | 3 | |
| sustainer | 9 | 3 | |
| sweetener | 9 | 3 | |
| tensioner | 9 | 3 | |
| thickener | 9 | 3 | |
| tightener | 9 | 3 | |
| uncleaner | 9 | 3 | |
| westerner | 9 | 3 |
What’s typical about NER-ending words?
NER often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.