4-letter words containing o, n
- goon — Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
- gown — a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
- gyno — (UK, Australia, informal) abbreviation of gynecologist.
- hon. — Hon. is an abbreviation for honourable and , honorary when they are used as part of a person's title.
- hone — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- hong — (in China) a group of rooms or buildings forming a warehouse, factory, etc.
- honk — the cry of a goose.
- hons — honey (def 6).
- hoon — (Australia, slang, dated) A pimp.
- horn — Cape. Cape Horn.
- icon — a picture, image, or other representation.
- ikon — a picture, image, or other representation.
- info — information.
- ingo — To go in; to enter.
- inox — (attributive) stainless steel.
- inro — a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- into — to the inside of; in toward: He walked into the room. The train chugged into the station.
- iona — an island in the Hebrides, off the W coast of Scotland: center of early Celtic Christianity.
- ions — Plural form of ion.
- iron — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- jeon — chon (def 2).
- joan — ("Fair Maid of Kent") 1328–85, wife of Edward, the Black Prince, and mother of Richard II.
- john — (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) 1881–1963, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1958–63.
- join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
- jon. — Jonah
- jong — A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
- json — JavaScript Object Notation
- juno — the ancient Roman queen of heaven, a daughter of Saturn and the wife and sister of Jupiter: the protector of women and marriage. Compare Hera.
- kano — a city in N Nigeria.
- kaon — a meson with strangeness +1 and either positive or zero electric charge, or its antiparticle, with strangeness −1 and either negative or zero electric charge. Symbol: K.
- keno — a game of chance, adapted from lotto for gambling purposes.
- khon — A Thai form of dance with music and narration.
- kino — (in Europe) a motion-picture theater; cinema.
- knob — a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- knop — a small knob or similar rounded protuberance, especially for ornament.
- knor — Obsolete form of knur.
- knot — either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
- know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- knox — (William) Frank(lin) 1874–1944, U.S. publisher and government official.
- koan — a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.
- koln — German name of Cologne.
- kona — a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain.
- kong — In the game of mahjong, a set of four identical tiles.
- konk — Alternative spelling of conk.
- laon — a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- leno — Also called leno weave, gauze weave. a weave structure in which paired warp yarns are intertwined in a series of figure eights and filling yarn is passed through each of the interstices so formed, producing a firm, open mesh.
- leon — a province in NW Spain: formerly a kingdom. 5936 sq. mi. (15,375 sq. km).
- lino — linoleum.
- lion — a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
- loan — a country lane; secondary road.