9-letter words containing o, n, c, a
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- favorance — a liking or preference: My family always had a favorance for farming.
- fibonacci — Leonardo (leoˈnardo), also called Leonardo of Pisa. ?1170–?1250, Italian mathematician: popularized the decimal system in Europe
- fictional — invented as part of a work of fiction: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.
- flamencos — Plural form of flamenco.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- formicant — (medicine,obsolete) Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fractions — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- francisco — a male given name, Spanish form of Francis.
- francolin — any of numerous Eurasian and African partridges of the genus Francolinus, having sharply spurred legs.
- franconia — a medieval duchy in Germany, largely in the valley of the Main River.
- frication — an audible, constrained rush of air accompanying and characteristic of fricatives.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- furcation — forked; branching.
- gascoigne — George, 1525?–77, English poet.
- gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- gasconism — the quality of being boastful; boastfulness
- gaycation — a holiday specifically designed for the gay market
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- gnathonic — sycophantic; fawning.
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
- go back n — (networking) A data link layer protocol.
- goncharov — Ivan Alexandrovich [ih-vahn al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-,, ahy-vuh n;; Russian ee-vahn uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ɪˈvɑn ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-,, ˈaɪ vən;; Russian iˈvɑn ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1812–91, Russian novelist.
- gonotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a gonangium.
- grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- hacendado — the owner of a hacienda.
- hachinohe — a city in N Honshu, Japan.
- hackathon — a usually competitive event in which people work in groups on software or hardware projects, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event: At the hackathon our team produced an app that helps you monitor your sleeping habits.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.