9-letter words containing o, n, e, s
- isobutene — (organic compound) The unsaturated hydrocarbon methylpropene, (CH3)2C=CH2; used in the manufacture of polybutene and butyl rubber.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isoclines — Plural form of isocline.
- isoenzyme — isozyme.
- isogenous — of the same or similar origin, as parts derived from the same or corresponding tissues of the embryo.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isolectin — Any of a number of closely related lectins that are difficult to separate, and act together.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jargonise — Alternative form of jargonize.
- jasmonate — a hormone that regulates plant growth
- jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jenkinson — Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1770–1828, British statesman: prime minister 1812–27.
- jesselton — former name of Kota Kinabalu.
- jettisons — Plural form of jettison.
- jointless — without a joint; lacking a joint.
- jointness — The state or quality of being joint.
- jointress — a woman on whom a jointure has been settled.
- jointures — Plural form of jointure.
- jolliness — in good spirits; lively; merry: In a moment he was as jolly as ever.
- jonesboro — a city in NE Arkansas.
- jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- jowliness — the feature of having large jowls or a prominent jaw
- jumentous — Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.
- junoesque — (of a woman) stately; regal.
- juvenoids — Plural form of juvenoid.
- kakemonos — (uncommon) Plural form of kakemono.
- kalsomine — to wash or cover with calcimine.
- kerbstone — one of the stones, or a range of stones, forming a curb, as along a street.
- keynoters — Plural form of keynoter.
- keystoner — a native or inhabitant of Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
- keystones — Plural form of keystone.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- kinetosis — any condition caused by motion of the body, as seasickness.
- kinswomen — Plural form of kinswoman.
- knee-sock — a type of sock that comes up to the knee
- kneeholes — Plural form of kneehole.
- knockless — (of an engine, bearing, or fuel) producing no knocking sound
- knotholes — Plural form of knothole.
- knottiest — Superlative form of knotty.