5-letter words containing n, o
- anion — a negatively charged ion; an ion that is attracted to the anode during electrolysis
- anjou — a former province of W France, in the Loire valley: a medieval countship from the 10th century, belonging to the English crown from 1154 until 1204; annexed by France in 1480
- annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- anode — In electronics, an anode is the positive electrode in a cell such as a battery. Compare cathode.
- anoia — extreme mental deficiency.
- anoka — a city in E Minnesota.
- anole — any small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards of the genus Anolis, such as A. carolinensis (green anole): family Iguanidae (iguanas). They are able to change the colour of their skin
- anomy — a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
- anova — analysis of variance
- anson — a male given name.
- anton — a male given name, form of Anthony.
- anyon — a particle that occurs in two-dimensional space having characteristics of both fermions and bosons
- anzio — a port and resort on the W coast of Italy: site of Allied landings in World War II. Pop: 36 952 (2001)
- apron — An apron is a piece of clothing that you put on over the front of your normal clothes and tie round your waist, especially when you are cooking, in order to prevent your clothes from getting dirty.
- argon — Argon is an inert gas which exists in very small amounts in the atmosphere. It is used in electric lights.
- arion — flourished 7th century b.c, Greek poet: inventor of the dithyramb.
- arlon — a town in SE Belgium, capital of Luxembourg province. Pop: 25 766 (2004 est)
- arson — Arson is the crime of deliberately setting fire to a building or vehicle.
- ascon — a type of sponge having an oval shape and a thin body wall with pores leading directly into the spongocoel.
- aston — Francis William. 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist, who developed the first mass spectrograph, using it to investigate the isotopic structures of elements: Nobel prize for chemistry 1922
- atone — If you atone for something that you have done, you do something to show that you are sorry you did it.
- atony — lack of normal tone or tension, as in muscles; abnormal relaxation of a muscle
- auton — (science fiction) A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- avion — any machine that flies, such as an aeroplane
- axion — a hypothetical neutral elementary particle postulated to account for certain conservation laws in the strong interaction
- axone — Cell Biology. the appendage of the neuron that transmits impulses away from the cell body.
- axons — Plural form of axon.
- ayont — beyond
- azlon — a textile fibre made from protein
- bacon — Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
- balon — the lightness and grace of movement that make a dancer appear buoyant.
- banco — a call in gambling games such as chemin de fer and baccarat by a player or bystander who wishes to bet against the entire bank
- bando — A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy.
- banjo — A banjo is a musical instrument that looks like a guitar with a circular body, a long neck, and four or more strings.
- banon — a small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves.
- baron — A baron is a man who is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility.
- bason — a basin.
- baton — A baton is a short heavy stick which is sometimes used as a weapon by the police.
- beano — a celebration, party, or other enjoyable time
- belon — a type of European oyster
- bento — a thin box, made of plastic or lacquered wood, divided into compartments which contain small separate dishes comprising a Japanese meal, esp lunch
- béton — a type of concrete prepared in France
- bidon — a vessel (of tin, wood, or glass) for containing liquids
- bingo — Bingo is a game in which each player has a card with numbers on. Someone calls out numbers and if you are the first person to have all your numbers called out, you win the game.
- biont — a living thing
- bison — A bison is a large hairy animal with a large head that is a member of the cattle family. They used to be very common in North America and Europe.
- blond — (of men's hair) of a light colour; fair
- blown — Blown is the past participle of blow1.
- bogan — (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
- bogon — /boh'gon/ (By analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's "Vogons") 1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see quantum bogodynamics). For instance, "the Ethernet is emitting bogons again" means that it is broken or acting in an erratic or bogus fashion. 2. A query packet sent from a TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server, having the reply bit set instead of the query bit. 3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed packet sent on a network. 4. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was historically the original usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses. See also bogosity; compare psyton, fat electrons, magic smoke. The bogon has become the type case for a whole bestiary of nonce particle names, including the "clutron" or "cluon" (indivisible particle of cluefulness, obviously the antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon (elementary particle of randomness, or sometimes of lameness). These are not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke or linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And these imply nonce particle theories, with all their dignity or lack thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a generalisation from "(bogus particle) theories" to "bogus (particle theories)"!). Perhaps such particles are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths. Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the "futon") yields additional flavour.