9-letter words containing e, n, o
- expand on — If you expand on or expand upon something, you give more information or details about it when you write or talk about it.
- expansion — The action of becoming larger or more extensive.
- expiation — The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
- exploding — Burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, decomposition, excessive internal pressure, or other process, typically scattering fragments widely.
- exploring — The action of the verb explore.
- explosion — A violent and destructive shattering or blowing apart of something, as is caused by a bomb.
- exponents — Plural form of exponent.
- exponible — requiring further explanation, esp (in logic) of a proposition
- exporting — Present participle of export.
- expounded — Simple past tense and past participle of expound.
- expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
- expulsion — The action of depriving someone of membership in an organization.
- exsection — A cutting out or away.
- exsertion — Protrusion; thrusting outward.
- exsuction — The act of sucking out.
- extension — A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it; a continuation.
- extensors — Plural form of extensor.
- extention — Misspelling of extension.
- extolling — Present participle of extoll.
- extolment — (obsolete) praise.
- extorsion — (medicine) An outward rotation of a limb, organ or part of the eye.
- extorting — Present participle of extort.
- extortion — The practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
- extropian — Of, or relating to extropy.
- extrusion — A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.
- exudation — The act of exuding.
- eyeopener — Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- eyes-only — confidential
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- fake-down — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- falconers — Plural form of falconer.
- falconets — Plural form of falconet.
- falconine — any of several birds of prey of the family Falconidae, especially of the genus Falco, usually distinguished by long, pointed wings, a hooked beak with a toothlike notch on each side of the upper bill, and swift, agile flight, typically diving to seize prey: some falcon species are close to extinction.
- farandole — a lively dance, of Provençal origin, in which all the dancers join hands and execute various figures.
- fashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of fashion.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- favorance — a liking or preference: My family always had a favorance for farming.
- fell pony — a British breed of large and heavy ponies, found in the hills of N England
- fellation — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.
- fellowman — another member of the human race, especially a kindred human being: Don't deny full recognition to your fellowmen.
- fellowmen — another member of the human race, especially a kindred human being: Don't deny full recognition to your fellowmen.
- felonious — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- fence off — If you fence off an area of land, you build a fence round it.
- fence-off — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- fencepost — A post which helps hold up a fence.
- fencerows — Plural form of fencerow.
- feoffment — (legal) The grant of a feud or fee.
- fermentor — The vessel in which fermentation takes place.
- fermionic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
- ferrocene — Also called dicyclopentadienyliron. an orange, crystalline, water-insoluble coordination compound, (C 5 H 5) 2 Fe, having a camphorlike odor: used chiefly as an antiknock agent for gasoline and as a catalyst. Compare metallocene.