9-letter words containing on
- adulation — Adulation is uncritical admiration and praise of someone or something.
- advection — the transference of heat energy in a horizontal stream of gas, esp of air
- adversion — (obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
- aerobiont — an organism that requires oxygen to survive
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aeronomer — a scientist who studies the upper atmosphere of planets
- aeronomic — of or relating to the study of the upper atmosphere
- aerophone — any musical instrument in which sound is produced by air vibrations
- affection — If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.
- afflation — the inspiration or influence of someone or something
- affluxion — a streaming or flowing towards something
- affronted — experiencing an insult
- affrontee — having faces or fronts towards each other
- affronter — Someone who affronts.
- afternoon — The afternoon is the part of each day which begins at lunchtime and ends at about six o'clock.
- agamemnon — a king of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy. On his return home he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
- agitation — If someone is in a state of agitation, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- agonising — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- agonistes — a person enduring an inner struggle
- agonistic — striving for effect; strained
- agonizing — Something that is agonizing causes you to feel great physical or mental pain.
- agreation — the procedure followed by a government for determining the acceptability to a foreign government of a proposed envoy.
- agronomic — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- akhetaton — the capital of ancient Egypt under the reign of Amenhotep IV: its excavated site is at the modern village of Tell el Amarna.
- al capone — Al(phonse) ("Scarface") 1899–1947, U.S. gangster and Prohibition-era bootlegger, probably born in Italy.
- albondiga — A Spanish or Latin American variety of meatball.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldington — Richard. 1892–1962, English poet, novelist, and biographer. His novels include Death of a Hero (1929) and The Colonel's Daughter (1931), which reflect postwar disillusion following World War I
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- alfonso i — (Alfonso Henriques) 1109?–85, first king of Portugal 1139–85.
- alfonso v — 1432–81, king of Portugal 1438–81.
- alfonso x — ("Alfonso the Wise") 1221–84, king of Castile 1252–84.
- algonkian — Algonquian
- algonquin — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
- alimonied — provided or supplied with alimony
- all along — If something has been true or been present all along, it has been true or been present throughout a period of time.
- allophone — any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/
- allusions — Plural form of allusion.
- aloneness — the state of being alone
- alongside — If one thing is alongside another thing, the first thing is next to the second.
- alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
- always-on — remaining available at all times
- amazonian — Amazonian means related to the area around the river Amazon.
- amazonite — a green variety of microcline used as a gemstone. Formula: KAlSi3O8
- ambitions — an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.
- amidation — to convert into an amide.
- amination — to introduce an amino group into (a compound).