5-letter words containing n, o
- pilon — something extra; lagniappe.
- pingo — a hill of soil-covered ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.
- pinko — a person with left-wing, but not extreme, political opinions.
- pinon — Also, pinyon. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- pinot — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- pinto — marked with spots of white and other colors; mottled; spotted: a pinto horse.
- piton — a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- plano — pertaining to eyeglasses that do not contain a curvature for correcting vision defects: plano sunglasses.
- pleon — the abdomen of a crustacean.
- plonk — inferior or cheap wine.
- poind — to take (property of a debtor) in execution or by way of distress; distrain
- point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
- ponca — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- ponce — a seaport in S Puerto Rico.
- pondo — a member of a Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in Pondoland
- pones — the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
- ponga — a tall tree fern, Cyathea dealbata, of New Zealand, with large feathery leaves
- pongo — an anthropoid ape, esp an orang-utan or (formerly) a gorilla
- ponty — a rod used for shaping molten glass
- ponzi — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- ponzu — a type of Japanese dipping sauce made from orange juice, sake, sugar, soy sauce, and red pepper
- poona — a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- porno — pornography
- porns — Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
- porny — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- posen — German name of Poznań.
- potin — a bronze alloy with high tin content, formerly used in the manufacture of coins
- pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- powan — a freshwater whitefish, Coregonus clupeoides, occurring in some Scottish lakes
- powin — a peacock depicted on a heraldic shield
- preon — a hypothetical component of a quark
- prion — a tiny proteinaceous particle, likened to viruses and viroids, but having no genetic component, thought to be an infectious agent in bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and similar encephalopathies.
- proin — a prune, or dried plum
- pron. — pronominal
- prone — having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger.
- prong — one of the pointed tines of a fork.
- pronk — a display leap performed by springbok and other antelope
- psion — (company) The UK company that produced the Psion Organiser. They also wrote software for the Sinclair QL.
- punto — a hit or sword thrust
- puton — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- pylon — a marking post or tower for guiding aviators, frequently used in races.
- quoin — an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
- quonk — an accidental noise picked up on a microphone while broadcasting
- quorn — a vegetable protein developed from a type of fungus and used in cooking as a meat substitute
- racon — radar beacon.
- radon — a chemically inert, radioactive gaseous element produced by the decay of radium: emissions produced by outgassing of rock, brick, etc. are a health hazard. Symbol: Rn; atomic number: 86; atomic weight: 222.
- ramon — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("Ramón") 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, dramatist, biographer, and critic.
- rando — random (def 4): We were followed by some rando creep.
- rason — a long, loose, black gown with wide sleeves, worn by the clergy.
- rayon — a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.