5-letter words containing n, o
- halon — Any of a number of unreactive gaseous compounds of carbon with bromine and other halogens, used in fire extinguishers, but now known to damage the ozone layer.
- hanno — Carthaginian statesman, fl. 3rd century b.c.
- hanoi — Towers of Hanoi
- hedon — (economics) A unit of pleasure used to theoretically weigh people's happiness.
- hemon — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1880–1913, Canadian novelist, born in France.
- heron — Hero (def 2).
- hexon — (biology, biochemistry) Any small biological structure that has hexagonal symmetry.
- hmong — Miao.
- hoban — James, c1762–1831, U.S. architect, born in Ireland: designed the White House.
- hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- hogen — strong beer or liquor
- hokan — a proposed genetic grouping of American Indian languages comprising otherwise unclassified language families and isolates of California, the U.S. Southwest, and Mexico, including Yana, Pomo, Chumash, and Yuman.
- holen — Past participle of hele.
- holon — a city in W central Israel: a suburb of Tel Aviv.
- honan — Wade-Giles. Henan.
- hond. — Honduras
- honda — an eye at one end of a lariat through which the other end is passed to form a lasso, noose, etc.
- hondo — Honshu.
- honed — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- honer — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- hones — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- honey — a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.
- hongi — a Maori greeting in which noses are pressed together.
- honks — Plural form of honk.
- honky — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- honor — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- hoons — Plural form of hoon.
- hoorn — a city in NW Netherlands.
- horne — Lena, 1917–2010, U.S. singer and actress.
- horns — Plural form of horn.
- horny — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- hosen — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- hotan — an oasis in W China, in SW Xinjiang.
- hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- hoven — affected with bloat.
- huron — a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
- hyson — a Chinese green tea dried and prepared from twisted leaves, especially of the early crop (young hyson)
- icon- — icono-
- icons — a picture, image, or other representation.
- ikons — Plural form of ikon.
- ilion — Greek name of ancient Troy.
- imino — containing the imino group.
- in on — If you are in on something, you are involved in it or know about it.
- inbox — a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
- incog — Incognito.
- indio — a town in S California.
- indo- — Indo- combines with nationality adjectives to form adjectives which describe something as connected with both India and another country.
- indol — Alternative form of indole.
- indow — Archaic form of endow.
- ingot — a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.