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9-letter words containing ono

  • monophyly — (systematics) In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.
  • monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
  • monoplane — an airplane with one main sustaining surface or one set of wings.
  • monoploid — having the basic or haploid number of chromosomes.
  • monopodes — Plural form of monopode.
  • monopodia — a single main axis that continues to extend at the apex in the original line of growth, giving off lateral branches beneath in acropetal succession.
  • monopolar — Having a single pole.
  • monopoles — Plural form of monopole.
  • monoprint — A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.
  • monopsony — the market condition that exists when there is one buyer.
  • monoptote — a noun that exists in only one case
  • monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
  • monorails — Plural form of monorail.
  • monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
  • monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
  • monorhyme — a poem or stanza in which all the lines rhyme with each other.
  • monoscope — a cathode-ray tube that provides a signal of a fixed pattern, formerly used for testing television equipment at the end of a broadcast day.
  • monosemic — Of or pertaining to monosemy.
  • monosomic — having one less than the usual diploid number of chromosomes.
  • monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
  • monostele — an individual or sole stele in the middle of the stem or root of a plant that contains tube-like vessels
  • monostely — the state of being monostelic
  • monostich — a poem or epigram consisting of a single metrical line.
  • monostome — having a single mouth, pore, or stoma.
  • monotints — Plural form of monotint.
  • monotonal — having equal tone throughout, as sans-serif type.
  • monotones — Plural form of monotone.
  • monotonic — of, relating to, or uttered in a monotone: a monotonic delivery of a lecture.
  • monotower — A monotower is an offshore platform without any workers, which has one leg.
  • monotreme — any animal of the Monotremata, the most primitive order of mammals, characterized by certain birdlike and reptilian features, as hatching young from eggs, and having a single opening for the digestive, urinary, and genital organs, comprising only the duckbill and the echidnas of Australia and New Guinea.
  • monotroch — a one-wheeled means of transportation, such as a wheelbarrow
  • monotropy — polymorphism that is irreversible.
  • monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
  • monotypic — having only one type.
  • monowheel — A vehicle similar to a unicycle, its rider sitting within or adjacent to the single wheel.
  • monoxides — Plural form of monoxide.
  • monoxylon — a sailing vessel constructed from one whole piece of wood
  • neonomian — someone who holds to neonomianism
  • onomastic — of or relating to proper names.
  • onomatope — (linguistics) A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis.
  • onondagan — a member of a tribe of Iroquoian Indians formerly inhabiting the region of Onondaga Lake.
  • onopordum — (botany) Any of the genus Onopordum of asteraceous thistles.
  • phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
  • phonolite — a fine-grained volcanic rock composed chiefly of alkali feldspar and nepheline, some varieties of which split into pieces that ring on being struck.
  • phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
  • phonopore — a device that conveys sound using electrical impulses along telegraph lines
  • phonotype — a piece of type bearing a phonetic character or symbol.
  • phonotypy — phonography (def 2).
  • plutonomy — the study of economics or the production of wealth
  • pneumono- — lung or lungs
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