9-letter words containing on
- avocation — Your avocation is a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.
- avolition — Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy.
- avon lake — a town in N Ohio.
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- aztreonam — A synthetic monobactam originally isolated from Chromobacterium violaceum, similar in action to penicillin.
- b horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the A horizon, containing deposits of leached material
- b-s meson — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- baboonery — uncouth or brutish behaviour
- baboonish — resembling a baboon
- baby bond — a sum of money invested shortly after the birth of a child, the returns of which may not be collected until the child reaches adulthood
- babylonia — the southern kingdom of ancient Mesopotamia: a great empire from about 2200–538 bc, when it was conquered by the Persians
- backboned — With a strong spine.
- backbones — Plural form of backbone.
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- bail bond — a surety bond (money or property) offered or deposited by a defendant or other persons to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial
- bajillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- balconied — That has a balcony attached.
- balconies — Plural form of balcony.
- baldmoney — Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- ballooned — Simple past tense and past participle of balloon.
- bandoneon — a type of square concertina, esp used in Argentina
- bandwagon — You can refer to an activity or movement that has suddenly become fashionable or popular as a bandwagon.
- bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barcelona — the chief port of Spain, on the NE Mediterranean coast: seat of the Republican government during the Civil War (1936–39); the commercial capital of Spain. Pop: 1 582 738 (2003 est)
- bareboned — short of resources
- baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- barracoon — (formerly) a temporary place of confinement for slaves or convicts, esp those awaiting transportation
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bathonian — of or relating to Bath
- battalion — A battalion is a large group of soldiers that consists of three or more companies.
- batten on — If you say that someone battens on a particular person or thing, you disapprove of the fact that they become successful by forming a close connection with that person or thing.
- bayoneted — a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
- bazillion — a very large, indefinite number
- be big on — large, as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity.
- be pie on — to be keen on
- beaconage — a number or system of beacons.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- bebington — a town in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: docks and chemical works. Pop: 57 066 (2001)