7-letter words containing a, o, n
- dead-on — exactly right, accurate, or pertinent: The film director has a dead-on feel for characterization.
- decagon — a polygon having ten sides
- decanol — a colorless liquid, C 10 H 22 O, insoluble in water and soluble in alcohol: used as a plasticizer, detergent, and in perfumes and flavorings.
- deodand — (formerly) a thing that had caused a person's death and was forfeited to the crown for a charitable purpose: abolished 1862
- diamond — A diamond is a hard, bright, precious stone which is clear and colourless. Diamonds are used in jewellery and for cutting very hard substances.
- dianoia — perception and experience regarded as lower modes of knowledge
- diatron — an electrical circuit that uses diodes
- diconal — a brand of dipanone, an opiate drug with potent analgesic properties: used to relieve severe pain
- digonal — of or relating to a symmetry operation in which the original figure is reconstructed after a 180° turn about an axis
- dionaea — the Venus's-flytrap.
- dioxane — a colorless, flammable, liquid cyclic ether, C 4 H 8 O 2 , having a faint, pleasant odor: used chiefly in the varnish and silk industries and as a dehydrator in histology.
- dipnoan — belonging or pertaining to the order Dipnoi, comprising the lungfishes.
- doating — dote.
- dockman — A man who works on a dock.
- dogbane — any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.
- dogvane — a small vane that shows the direction of the wind, mounted in a position visible to a helmsman.
- dolmans — Plural form of dolman.
- domaine — a French estate on which wine is made
- domains — Plural form of domain.
- donable — available free from government surpluses: Needy people in the program were eligible for donable foods such as beans and peas.
- donated — Simple past tense and past participle of donate.
- donates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of donate.
- donator — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- donatus — early-4th-century bishop of Casae Nigrae in northern Africa: leader of a heretical Christian group. Compare Donatist.
- donbass — an industrial region in E Ukraine in the plain of the Rivers Donets and lower Dnieper: the site of a major coalfield
- donegal — a county in the N Republic of Ireland. 1865 sq. mi. (4830 sq. km). County seat: Lifford.
- dongola — a former province in the N Sudan, now part of Northern Province.
- donnard — stunned; dazed.
- donovan — William Joseph ("Wild Bill") 1883–1959, U.S. lawyer and military officer: organizer and director of the OSS 1942–45.
- dontcha — Eye dialect of don't you.
- doorman — the door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and may perform minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- dopants — Plural form of dopant.
- dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- doryman — a person who uses a dory, especially a person who engages in fishing, lobstering, etc.
- dowland — John, 1563–1626, English lutenist and composer.
- dracone — A large bag used to transport a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
- drag on — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- dragons — Plural form of dragon.
- dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
- draw on — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drayton — Michael, 1563–1631, English poet.
- drogman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- duodena — Plural form of duodenum.
- durango — a state in N Mexico. 47,691 sq. mi. (123,520 sq. km).
- dynamo- — indicating power
- dynamos — Plural form of dynamo.
- dzongka — the official language of Bhutan: a dialect of Tibetan
- earbone — (anatomy) Any bone in the ear.
- edaphon — the aggregate of organisms that live in the soil.
- elation — Great happiness and exhilaration.