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6-letter words containing n, o

  • bounds — a limit; boundary (esp in the phrase know no bounds)
  • bounty — You can refer to something that is provided in large amounts as bounty.
  • bourne — a brook or rivulet.
  • bouton — the enlarged part of a nerve fibre or cell which facilitates contact between nerves
  • bovine — Bovine means relating to cattle.
  • bowfin — a primitive North American freshwater bony fish, Amia calva, with an elongated body and a very long dorsal fin: family Amiidae
  • bowing — the technique of using the bow in playing a violin, viola, cello, or related instrument
  • bowman — an archer
  • box in — If you are boxed in, you are unable to move from a particular place because you are surrounded by other people or cars.
  • boxing — Boxing is a sport in which two people wearing large padded gloves fight according to special rules.
  • braino — thinko
  • brando — Marlon. 1924–2004, US actor; his films include On the Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972), for both of which he won Oscars, Last Tango in Paris (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), A Dry White Season (1989), and Don Juan de Marco (1995)
  • brecon — a town in SE Wales, in Powys: textile and leather industries. Pop: 7901 (2001)
  • brehon — a judge in ancient Ireland
  • breton — of, relating to, or characteristic of Brittany, its people, or their language
  • briony — bryony
  • briton — A Briton is a person who comes from Great Britain.
  • brogan — a heavy laced usually ankle-high work boot
  • broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
  • bronco — In the western United States, especially in the 19th century, a wild horse was sometimes referred to as a bronco.
  • bronde — (of women's hair) artificially coloured to achieve a shade between blonde and brunette
  • bronte — Anne, pen name Acton Bell. 1820–49, English novelist; author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)
  • bronze — Bronze is a yellowish-brown metal which is a mixture of copper and tin.
  • browne — Coral (Edith). 1913–91, Australian actress: married to Vincent Price
  • browny — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • bruton — John Gerard. born 1947, Irish politician: leader of the Fine Gael party (1990–2001); prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1994–97)
  • bryony — any of several herbaceous climbing plants of the cucurbitaceous genus Bryonia, of Europe and N Africa
  • buffon — Georges Louis Leclerc (ʒɔrʒ lwi ləklɛr), Comte de. 1707–88, French encyclopedist of natural history; principal author of Histoire naturelle (36 vols., 1749–89), containing the Époques de la nature (1777), which foreshadowed later theories of evolution
  • bugong — bogong.
  • bunion — A bunion is a large painful lump on the first joint of a person's big toe.
  • bunton — one of a number of struts reinforcing the walls of a shaft and dividing it into vertical compartments.
  • burton — a kind of light hoisting tackle
  • busoni — Ferruccio Benvenuto (fɛʀˈʀutˌtʃɔ bɛnvɛˈnutɔ) ; ferro̅otˈch^ō benˌveno̅oˈt^ō) 1866-1924; It. composer
  • button — Buttons are small hard objects sewn on to shirts, coats, or other pieces of clothing. You fasten the clothing by pushing the buttons through holes called buttonholes.
  • buxton — a town in N England, in NW Derbyshire in the Peak District: thermal springs. Pop: 20 836 (2001)
  • bygone — Bygone means happening or existing a very long time ago.
  • c-note — a one-hundred-dollar bill
  • cacoon — the large bean of a tropical climber, Entada scandens, that is used for making purses, spoons, snuffboxes, and other items
  • cafone — an uncouth person; lowlife.
  • calgon — a chemical compound, sodium hexametaphosphate, with water-softening properties, used in detergents
  • camion — a lorry, or, esp formerly, a large dray
  • can do — marked by purposefulness and efficiency: a can-do executive.
  • can-do — If you say that someone has a can-do attitude, you approve of them because they are confident and willing to deal with problems or new tasks, rather than complaining or giving up.
  • candor — Candor is the quality of speaking honestly and openly about things.
  • cannon — A cannon is a large gun, usually on wheels, which used to be used in battles.
  • cannot — Cannot is the negative form of can1.
  • canoas — a city in SE Brazil, N of Pôrto Alegre.
  • canoed — Simple past tense and past participle of canoe.
  • canoer — a person who travels in a canoe
  • canoes — Plural form of canoe.
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