5-letter words containing n, o
- choon — a piece of recorded music that one likes
- chron — (geology) A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.
- ciano — Galeazzo, full name Conte Galeazzo Ciano di Cortellazzo. 1903–44, Italian fascist politician; minister of foreign affairs (1936–43) and son-in-law of Mussolini, whose supporters shot him
- cimon — died 449 bc, Athenian military and naval commander: defeated the Persians at Eurymedon (?466)
- cions — scion (def 2).
- cleon — died 422 bc, Athenian demagogue and military leader
- clone — If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
- clong — (obsolete) Past participle of cling.
- clonk — to make a loud dull thud
- clown — A clown is a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and bright make-up, and does silly things in order to make people laugh.
- cluon — (slang) The imaginary elementary particle of cluefulness; the anti-particle to the bogon.
- co-np — complementary nondeterministic polynomial
- coden — a unique six-character code assigned to a publication for identification purposes
- codon — a unit that consists of three adjacent bases on a DNA molecule and that determines the position of a specific amino acid in a protein molecule during protein synthesis
- cogon — any of the coarse tropical grasses of the genus Imperata, esp I. cylindrica and I. exaltata of the Philippines, which are used for thatching
- cohan — George M(ichael)1878-1942; U.S. actor, playwright, theatrical producer, & writer of popular songs
- cohen — Leonard. 1934–2016, Canadian singer, songwriter, and poet; recordings include Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968), Songs of Love and Hate (1971), I'm Your Man (1988), and Ten New Songs (2001)
- coign — quoin.
- coine — Obsolete spelling of coin.
- coins — Plural form of coin.
- colin — an American quail
- colon — A colon is the punctuation mark : which you can use in several ways. For example, you can put it before a list of things or before reported speech.
- comen — Alternative past participle of come.
- comin — Eye dialect of coming.
- conad — Continental Air Defense Command.
- conal — Shaped like a cone or funnel; conic.
- conan — a male given name.
- conc. — Conc. is the written abbreviation for concessionary.
- conch — A conch is a shellfish with a large shell rather like a snail's. A conch or a conch shell is the shell of this creature.
- conde — Prince de (prɛ̃s də), title of Louis II de Bourbon, Duc d'Enghien, called the Great Condé. 1621–86, French general, who led Louis XIV's armies against the Fronde (1649) but joined the Fronde in a new revolt (1650–52). He later fought for both France and Spain
- condo — Condo means the same as condominium.
- coned — Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- cones — Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- coney — a kind of rabbit or a pika: early term no longer in scientific use
- cong. — congius
- conga — If a group of people dance a conga, they dance in a long winding line, with each person holding on to the back of the person in front.
- conge — permission to depart or dismissal, esp when formal
- congo — the second longest river in Africa, rising as the Lualaba on the Katanga plateau in the Democratic Republic of Congo and flowing in a wide northerly curve to the Atlantic: forms the border between Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Length: about 4800 km (3000 miles). Area of basin: about 3 000 000 sq km (1 425 000 sq miles)
- congs — Informal. Vietcong.
- conic — having the shape of a cone
- conj. — conjugation, conjunction, or conjunctive
- conks — Plural form of conk.
- conky — (of a tree) affected by the conk fungus, which decays the wood
- conns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conn.
- conny — (UK, dialect) brave; fine; canny.
- conon — died a.d. 687, pope 686–687.
- cons. — Conservative
- const — (programming) A variable whose value cannot be changed directly.
- cont. — Cont. is an abbreviation for 'continued', which is used at the bottom of a page to indicate that a letter or text continues on another page.
- contd — continued