9-letter words containing e, n, o
- arcsecond — unit used in astronomy
- arecoline — a drug derived from betel nuts and producing a range of effects, including increased salivation, body temperature, and heart rate
- arenation — the use of hot sand as a medical poultice
- argentous — of or containing silver in the monovalent state
- arid zone — either of the zones of latitude 15–30° N and S characterized by very low rainfall and desert or semidesert terrain
- arrogance — the quality or state of being arrogant; overbearing pride or self-importance
- arsenious — of or containing arsenic in the trivalent state
- arternoon — Eye dialect of afternoon.
- arytenoid — denoting either of two small cartilages of the larynx that are attached to the vocal cords
- ascension — In some religions, when someone goes to heaven, you can refer to their ascension to heaven.
- aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
- assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
- assonance — the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
- attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
- attollent — (of muscle action) lifting up or raising
- attorneys — Plural form of attorney.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- auto-tune — (sometimes lowercase) to alter (recorded audio) to correct pitch and timing or create a melody.
- autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
- autogenic — Self-produced.
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- aversions — Plural form of aversion.
- avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- avon lake — a town in N Ohio.
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- aztreonam — A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin.
- b-s meson — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- baboonery — uncouth or brutish behaviour
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- baldmoney — Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- ballooned — Simple past tense and past participle of balloon.
- band-role — a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
- bandalore — an old-fashioned type of yo-yo
- bandboxes — Plural form of bandbox.
- banderole — a long narrow flag, usually with forked ends, esp one attached to the masthead of a ship; pennant