5-letter words containing o, n, a
- damon — Matt. born 1970, US film actor and screenwriter. His films include Good Will Hunting (1997, which he co-wrote), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and, from 2002, the Bourne series
- danio — any brightly coloured tropical freshwater cyprinid fish of the genus Danio and related genera: popular aquarium fishes
- dogan — (chiefly, Canada, offensive, sometimes, capitalized) A Roman Catholic, especially one of Irish origin.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition (November 2010).
- donah — a woman
- donar — the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.
- donat — A rank in some knightly orders.
- donau — German name of Danube.
- donax — (botany) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
- donga — (in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
- donna — a female given name.
- doona — (Australia) A padded blanket.
- doran — an electronic device for determining range and assisting navigation, employing the principle of the Doppler effect.
- eaton — Theophilus, 1590–1658, English colonist and colonial administrator in America.
- facon — a fashion; manner; style.
- fango — clay or mud, especially a clay obtained from certain hot springs in Battaglio, Italy, used as a hot application in the treatment of certain diseases.
- fanon — Frantz (Omar) [frants oh-mahr;; French frahnts aw-mar] /frænts ˈoʊ mɑr;; French frɑ̃ts ɔˈmar/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
- fanos — a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- fiona — a female given name.
- fonda — an inn or restaurant.
- gabon — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.
- gazon — a piece of turf used to cover a parapet
- genoa — a seaport in NW Italy, S of Milan.
- goban — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- gonad — a sex gland in which gametes are produced; an ovary or testis.
- gonia — Craniometry. a point on each side of the lower jaw at the mandibular angle.
- gonna — Going to.
- goona — Lb Australian Aboriginal faeces, excrement, shit.
- gowan — any of various yellow or white field flowers, especially the English daisy.
- groan — a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief: the groans of dying soldiers.
- guano — a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- 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
- hoban — James, c1762–1831, U.S. architect, born in Ireland: designed the White House.
- hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- 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.
- honan — Wade-Giles. Henan.
- honda — an eye at one end of a lariat through which the other end is passed to form a lasso, noose, etc.
- hotan — an oasis in W China, in SW Xinjiang.
- ionia — an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.
- iowan — of or relating to Iowa.
- jason — Classical Mythology. a hero, the leader of the Argonauts, who at the request of his uncle Pelias retrieved the Golden Fleece from King Aeëtes of Colchis with the help of Medea.
- jonah — a Minor Prophet who, for his impiety, was thrown overboard from his ship and swallowed by a large fish, remaining in its belly for three days before being cast up onto the shore unharmed.
- jonas — a Minor Prophet who, for his impiety, was thrown overboard from his ship and swallowed by a large fish, remaining in its belly for three days before being cast up onto the shore unharmed.
- kalon — Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
- kango — A Japanese word of Chinese origin, or a Japanese word coined along Chinese lines (a Sino-Japanese word).
- kanon — (musical instrument) synonym of monochord (used mainly in reference to ancient Greek music).
- kaons — Plural form of kaon.
- koans — Plural form of koan.
- koban — old oval-shaped Japanese gold coin