9-letter words containing n, o, c, e
- forensics — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forfochen — exhausted
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- frescoing — Present participle of fresco.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- gascoigne — George, 1525?–77, English poet.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- genocider — One who commits genocide.
- genocides — Plural form of genocide.
- genotoxic — a toxic agent that damages DNA molecules in genes, causing mutations, tumors, etc.
- genotypic — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- geonomics — a doctrine holding that humans own what is created by them, but that those things found in nature, such as land, belong to no one person but instead belong equally to all mankind
- geoponics — the art or science of agriculture.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- glen cove — a city on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- glen rock — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- gonotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a gonangium.
- gooseneck — a curved object resembling the neck of a goose, often of flexible construction, as in the shaft of a gooseneck lamp.
- grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- hachinohe — a city in N Honshu, Japan.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- headcanon — (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- holoclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a higher growth potential than a meroclone because it does not contain differentiated cells.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- hon. sec. — Honorary Secretary
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- hot fence — an electric fence surrounding a farm
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypopneic — of or relating to hypopnoea