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11-letter words containing on

  • adiponectin — (biochemistry) A protein hormone that modulates glucose regulation and fatty acid catabolism.
  • admirations — Plural form of admiration.
  • admonishing — to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
  • admonitions — Plural form of admonition.
  • adoptionism — an early Greek theology that Jesus was a man gifted with divine powers
  • adoptionist — someone who believes in adoptionism
  • adscription — ascription
  • adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
  • aerodonetic — Relating to aerodonetics.
  • aeronautics — Aeronautics is the science of designing and building aeroplanes.
  • aerostation — the science of operating lighter-than-air craft
  • aestivation — the act or condition of aestivating
  • affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
  • affectional — relating to or implying affection.
  • affectioned — Simple past tense and past participle of affection.
  • afficionado — aficionado.
  • affiliation — If one group has an affiliation with another group, it has a close or official connection with it.
  • affirmation — the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed
  • afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
  • affrication — the changing of (a consonantal speech sound) to an affricate
  • aficionadas — Plural form of aficionada.
  • aficionados — Plural form of aficionado.
  • afternoon's — the time from noon until evening.
  • afternooner — a person or thing that appears, flourishes, etc., in the afternoon: One of radio's favorite afternooners is a soap opera.
  • agathodemon — Alternative spelling of agathodaemon.
  • aggradation — to raise the grade or level of (a river valley, a stream bed, etc.) by depositing detritus, sediment, or the like.
  • aggravation — the act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated
  • aggregation — the act or process of aggregating
  • aggressions — the action of a state in violating by force the rights of another state, particularly its territorial rights; an unprovoked offensive, attack, invasion, or the like: The army is prepared to stop any foreign aggression.
  • aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
  • agitational — the act or process of agitating; state of being agitated: She left in great agitation.
  • agonic line — an imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of zero magnetic declination
  • agonisingly — Alternative spelling of agonizingly.
  • agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
  • agonizingly — accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress: We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had been serious or not.
  • agonothetes — a person who presided over the ancient Olympic Games
  • agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
  • agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
  • agronomists — Plural form of agronomist.
  • aid station — a medical station in a forward area where the sick and wounded are given emergency treatment
  • air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
  • air station — an airfield, usually smaller than an airport but having facilities for the maintenance of aircraft
  • alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
  • aldermaston — a village in S England, in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire, SW of Reading: site of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and starting point of the Aldermaston marches (1958–63), organized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Pop: 927 (2001)
  • alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • aldosterone — the principal mineralocorticoid secreted by the adrenal cortex. A synthesized form is used in the treatment of Addison's disease. Formula: C21H27O5
  • alendronate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of alendronic acid.
  • alfonso xii — 1857–85, king of Spain 1874–85.
  • all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
  • allegations — Plural form of allegation.
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