9-letter words containing a, r, e, n, o
- van doren — Carl, 1885–1950, U.S. writer.
- van horne — Sir William (Cornelius). 1843–1915, Canadian railway executive, born in the US; oversaw the completion of the line from Port Moody to Montreal on the Canadian Pacific Railway
- vancouver — George, 1758–98, English explorer.
- venerator — to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- verrazano — Giovanni da [jaw-vahn-nee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), c1480–1527? Italian navigator and explorer.
- wagoneers — Plural form of wagoneer.
- walker-on — someone who has a small part in a play or theatrical entertainment, esp one without any lines
- warbonnet — Alternative spelling of war bonnet.
- warm tone — a yellow, brown, olive, or reddish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- warmonger — a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.
- watertown — a town in E Massachusetts, on the Charles River, near Boston: U.S. arsenal.
- waterworn — worn by the action of water; smoothed by the force or movement of water.
- watterson — Henry ("Marse Henry") 1840–1921, U.S. journalist and political leader.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- weaponeer — Military. a person who prepares an atomic bomb for detonation.
- wear down — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- werowance — (historical) A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- woomerang — boomerang.
- xenograft — a graft obtained from a member of one species and transplanted to a member of another species.
- xenon arc — an electric arc between two metal electrodes enclosed in a quartz bulb and contained in a xenon atmosphere, used mainly as a high-intensity light source in motion-picture projectors and studio spotlights.
- year-long — Year-long is used to describe something that lasts for a year.
- yourcenar — Marguerite (Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour) [krey-uh n-koo r] /ˌkreɪ ənˈkʊər/ (Show IPA), 1903–87, U.S. poet and novelist, born in Belgium.