7-letter words containing n, o
- contend — If you have to contend with a problem or difficulty, you have to deal with it or overcome it.
- content — The contents of a container such as a bottle, box, or room are the things that are inside it.
- contest — A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
- context — The context of an idea or event is the general situation that relates to it, and which helps it to be understood.
- contigs — Plural form of contig.
- contoid — of or relating to a sound characterized by stoppage or obstruction of the flow of air in the vocal tract; consonantlike.
- contort — If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
- contour — You can refer to the general shape or outline of an object as its contours.
- contra- — against; contrary; opposing; contrasting
- contras — (often initial capital letter) a member of a counterrevolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua.
- contree — Archaic spelling of country.
- control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- contund — to pummel or bruise (a person)
- contuse — to injure (the body) without breaking the skin; bruise
- convect — to circulate (hot air) by convection
- convene — If someone convenes a meeting or conference, they arrange for it to take place. You can also say that people convene or that a meeting convenes.
- convent — A convent is a building in which a community of nuns live.
- convert — If you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel.
- conveys — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- convict — If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
- convive — to feast together
- convoke — to call (a meeting, assembly, etc) together; summon
- convoys — to accompany or escort, usually for protection: A destroyer convoyed the merchant ship.
- cooking — Cooking is food which has been cooked.
- cookson — Dame Catherine. 1906-98, British novelist, known for her popular novels set in northeast England
- coolant — Coolant is a liquid used to keep a machine or engine cool while it is operating.
- cooling — making one feel cool
- coonass — (chiefly in Louisiana and southeast Texas) a Cajun.
- cooncan — a card game for two players, similar to rummy
- coondog — a dog that has been trained to hunt raccoons, or, specifically, a coonhound
- coontie — an evergreen plant, Zamia floridana of S Florida, related to the cycads and having large dark green leathery leaves: family Zamiaceae
- cooping — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- coowner — Someone who owns something together with one or more other people.
- copehan — Wintun.
- copings — Plural form of coping.
- copland — Aaron. 1900–90, US composer of orchestral and chamber music, ballets, and film music
- copping — the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.
- copy in — If you copy someone in on something, you send them a copy of something you have written to someone else.
- copying — the act of copying
- coquina — a soft limestone consisting of shells, corals, etc, that occurs in parts of the US
- coranto — courante
- corazon — the heart.
- corbans — Plural form of corban.
- corbina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- cording — a type of corded material, esp when used as a decorative trimming
- cordons — Plural form of cordon.
- coreign — to reign jointly
- corinne — a feminine name
- corinth — a port in S Greece, in the NE Peloponnese: the modern town is near the site of the ancient city, the largest and richest of the city-states after Athens. Pop (municipality): 36 991 (2001)
- corking — excellent