7-letter words containing o, n, a
- adwomen — Plural form of adwoman.
- aeneous — brass-coloured or greenish-gold
- aeolian — of or relating to the wind; produced or carried by the wind
- aeonian — everlasting
- aerogen — Any noble gas.
- affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
- afognak — an island off southern Alaska, in the Gulf of Alaska, N of Kodiak Island. 721 sq. mi. (1867 sq. km).
- agathon — c450–c400 b.c, Greek poet and dramatist.
- agelong — lasting a very long time
- aglucon — an aglycon, especially one combined with glucose to form a glycoside.
- aglycon — a chemical compound formed from a glycoside when a hydrogen atom replaces a glycosyl group
- agnomen — the fourth name or second cognomen occasionally acquired by an ancient Roman
- agnosia — loss or diminution of the power to recognize familiar objects or people, usually as a result of brain damage
- agonies — extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering.
- agonise — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- agonism — Competitive struggle (especially political).
- agonist — any muscle that is opposed in action by another muscle
- agonize — If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- aground — If a ship runs aground, it touches the ground in a shallow part of a river, lake, or the sea, and gets stuck.
- agynous — (botany) Without female organs; male.
- ai koan — (humour) /A-I koh'an/ One of a series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture. See also ha ha only serious, mu. In reading these, it is at least useful to know that Marvin Minsky, Gerald Sussman, and Drescher are AI researchers of note, that Tom Knight was one of the Lisp machine's principal designers, and that David Moon wrote much of Lisp Machine Lisp. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. Moon patiently told the student the following story: "One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand how to make a better garbage collector... [Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.] "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe", Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said. Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened. "I would like to give you this personality test", said the outsider, "because I want you to be happy." Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."
- aileron — An aileron is a section on the back edge of the wing of an aircraft that can be raised or lowered in order to control the aircraft's movement.
- air-con — Air-con is the same as air conditioning.
- al-anon — an association for the families and friends of alcoholics to give mutual support
- alarcon — Pedro Antonio de (ˈpeðro anˈtonjo de). 1833–91, Spanish novelist and short-story writer, noted for his humorous sketches of rural life, esp in The Three-Cornered Hat (1874)
- alation — the state of having wings
- albinos — Plural form of albino.
- alcoran — the Koran
- alcyone — the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx, who drowned herself in grief for her husband's death. She was transformed into a kingfisher
- alebion — a son of Poseidon who, with his brother Dercynus, was killed by Hercules while attempting to steal the cattle that Hercules had taken from Geryon.
- alencon — a town in NW France: early lace-manufacturing centre. Pop: 28 935 (1999)
- alerion — an eagle, usually without a beak or feet
- alfonso — 1886–1941, king of Spain 1886–1930.
- algol n — (language) A successor to ALGOL 60 proposed by Yoneda.
- alienor — a person who transfers property to another
- alimony — Alimony is money that a court of law orders someone to pay regularly to their former wife or husband after they have got divorced. Compare palimony.
- alkoran — the Koran
- all one — all the same
- allison — Donald ("Donnie") born 1939, and his brother, Robert, (Bobby), born 1937, U.S. racing-car drivers.
- allonge — a lunging or thrusting move in fencing
- allonym — a name, often one of historical significance or that of another person, assumed by a person, esp an author
- alloxan — a reddish organic compound C4H2N2O4 produced by oxidation of uric acid
- allston — Washington. 1779–1843, US painter and author, regarded as the earliest US Romantic painter. His paintings include Elijah in the Desert (1818) and Moonlit Landscape (1819)
- almonds — Plural form of almond.
- almondy — containing or resembling almond
- almoner — In Britain, an almoner is a social worker who works in a hospital.
- almonry — the house of an almoner, usually the place where alms were given
- alonely — in a solitary, or lonely, manner
- alongst — along
- alphorn — a wind instrument used in the Swiss Alps, consisting of a very long tube of wood or bark with a cornet-like mouthpiece