6-letter words containing n, o
- ajowan — a spice originating in the Middle East and now grown in certain areas of Asia, used in cookery and traditionally as a digestive aid and antiemetic
- aketon — a quilted garment worn under mail in the 13th and 14th centuries; gambeson.
- albano — Lake, a crater lake in C Italy, SE of Rome.
- albino — An albino is a person or animal with very white skin, white hair, and pink eyes.
- albion — Britain or England
- alboin — died 573 ad, king of the Lombards (565–73); conqueror of N Italy
- alcyon — Alternative form of halcyon.
- alison — a feminine name
- all on — the cry uttered by a whipper-in to signify that all the hounds are accounted for.
- allons — let's go!
- almond — Almonds are pale oval nuts. They are often used in cooking.
- alnico — an alloy of aluminium, nickel, cobalt, iron, and copper, used to make permanent magnets
- alonso — Alicia (Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez Hoyo) born 1921, Cuban ballerina.
- alston — a male given name.
- altona — a metropolitan district of Hamburg, Germany: formerly an independent city.
- alyson — a female given name, form of Alice.
- amazon — In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a tribe of women who were very good at fighting.
- amino- — indicating the presence of an amino group
- ammino — relating to or characteristic of an ammine
- ammono — of, or containing, ammonia
- ammons — the classical name of the Egyptian divinity Amen, whom the Greeks identified with Zeus, the Romans with Jupiter.
- amnion — the innermost of two membranes enclosing an embryonic reptile, bird, or mammal
- amnios — (anatomy) amnion.
- amonge — Archaic spelling of among.
- amoung — Archaic spelling of among.
- amount — The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.
- analog — Analog technology involves measuring, storing, or recording an infinitely variable amount of information by using physical quantities such as voltage.
- anatol — a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “sunrise.”.
- anatto — annatto
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- anchos — Plural form of ancho.
- ancome — an inflammation or boil
- ancona — a port in central Italy, on the Adriatic, capital of the Marches: founded by Greeks from Syracuse in about 390 bc. Pop: 100 507 (2001)
- ancone — an altarpiece, usually consisting of a painted panel or panels, reliefs, or statues set in an elaborate frame.
- ancony — A piece of malleable iron that is wrought into the shape of a flat bar, about three feet long, with a square rough unwrought knob on each end.
- ancora — encore
- and/or — used to join terms when either one or the other or both is indicated
- andro- — male; masculine
- andron — a son of Anius who was given the power of prophecy by Apollo.
- andros — an island in the Aegean Sea, the northernmost of the Cyclades: long famous for wine. Capital: Andros. Pop: 10 009 (2001). Area: about 311 sq km (120 sq miles)
- anemo- — indicating wind
- angelo — a male given name.
- angico — the South American tree, Parapiptadenia rigida
- angio- — indicating a blood or lymph vessel; seed vessel
- angkor — a large area of ruins in NW Cambodia, containing Angkor Thom (tɔːm ), the capital of the former Khmer Empire, and Angkor Wat (wɒt ), a three-storey temple, which were overgrown with dense jungle from the 14th to 19th centuries
- anglo- — Anglo- combines with adjectives indicating nationality to form adjectives which describe something connected with relations between Britain and another country.
- anglos — Plural form of anglo.
- angola — a republic in SW Africa, on the Atlantic: includes the enclave of Cabinda, north of the River Congo; a Portuguese possession from 1575 until its independence in 1975; multiparty constitution adopted in 1991; factional violence. It consists of a narrow coastal plain with a large fertile plateau in the east. Currency: kwanza. Religion: Christian majority. Capital: Luanda. Pop: 18 565 269 (2013 est). Area: 1 246 693 sq km (481 351 sq miles)
- angora — An angora goat or rabbit is a particular breed that has long silky hair.
- anions — Plural form of anion.