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7-letter words containing on

  • arizona — a state of the southwestern US: consists of the Colorado plateau in the northeast, including the Grand Canyon, divided from desert in the southwest by mountains rising over 3750 m (12 500 ft). Capital: Phoenix. Pop: 5 580 811 (2003 est). Area: 293 750 sq km (113 417 sq miles)
  • armbone — (anatomy) A bone in the arm, specifically, the humerus.
  • askelon — Ashqelon
  • asonant — Not sounding or sounded.
  • at once — If you do something at once, you do it immediately.
  • atoners — Plural form of atoner.
  • atonies — Pathology. lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness, especially in a contractile organ.
  • atoning — to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for): to atone for one's sins.
  • attonce — at once, together
  • au fond — fundamentally; essentially
  • auction — An auction is a public sale where goods are sold to the person who offers the highest price.
  • audions — an early type of triode.
  • audubon — John James. 1785–1851, US naturalist and artist, noted particularly for his paintings of birds in Birds of America (1827–38)
  • autonym — a piece of literature published under the real name of an author
  • aveyron — a department of S France in Midi-Pyrénées region. Capital: Rodez. Pop: 266 940 (2003 est). Area: 8771 sq km (3421 sq miles)
  • avignon — a city in SE France, on the Rhône: seat of the papacy (1309–77); famous 12th-century bridge, now partly destroyed. Pop: 94 787 (2006)
  • avionic — Of, or relating to avionics (aviation electronics).
  • axoneme — the part of a cell, consisting of proteins and microtubes, which forms the core
  • b meson — a meson composed of a bottom quark and an up or down antiquark or of a bottom antiquark and an up or down quark.
  • baboons — Plural form of baboon.
  • babylon — the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia: first settled around 3000 bc
  • baconer — a pig that weighs between 83 and 101 kg, from which bacon is cut
  • balafon — A large xylophone having hollow gourds as resonators, used in West African music.
  • balaton — Lakelake in W Hungary: largest lake in central Europe: c. 230 sq mi (596 sq km)
  • balcony — A balcony is a platform on the outside of a building, above ground level, with a wall or railing around it.
  • ballons — Plural form of ballon.
  • balloon — A balloon is a small, thin, rubber bag that you blow air into so that it becomes larger and rounder or longer. Balloons are used as toys or decorations.
  • baloney — If you say that an idea or statement is baloney, you disapprove of it and think it is foolish or wrong.
  • ban-lon — a smooth synthetic knitted fabric that resists wrinkling
  • bang on — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
  • bang-on — If someone is bang-on with something, they are exactly right in their opinions or actions.
  • bank on — If you bank on something happening, you expect it to happen and rely on it happening.
  • bargoon — a bargain
  • baronet — A baronet is a man who has been made a knight. When a baronet dies, the title is passed on to his son.
  • baronne — baroness
  • baryons — Plural form of baryon.
  • baryton — a bass viol with sympathetic strings as well as its six main strings
  • bassoon — A bassoon is a large musical instrument of the woodwind family that is shaped like a tube and played by blowing into a curved metal pipe.
  • bastion — If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended.
  • bateson — William, 1861–1926, English biologist and geneticist.
  • batonic — (linguistics) Not representing anything specific; non-representational.
  • bausond — (of animals) dappled with white spots on a black or bay background; esp having a white patch on the face
  • bayamon — a city in NE central Puerto Rico, south of San Juan. Pop: 224 915 (2003 est)
  • bayonet — A bayonet is a long, sharp blade that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
  • bayonne — a port in SW France: a commercial centre for the Basque region. Pop: 45 636 (2006)
  • beacons — a city in SE New York.
  • bear on — to be relevant to; relate to
  • beckons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beckon.
  • begonia — A begonia is a garden plant which has large brightly coloured leaves.
  • bellona — the Roman goddess of war
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