8-letter words containing oon
- mooncake — A rich, dense Chinese pastry with a variety of fillings, usually to eat in Zhongqiu Festival.
- mooncalf — a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
- moondust — The fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon.
- mooneyes — Plural form of mooneye.
- moonface — a round and full face
- moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- moonglow — Moonlight.
- moonless — the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- moonlike — Resembling the Moon, or a moon.
- moonport — a place from which flights leave for the moon
- moonrise — the rising of the moon above the horizon.
- moonrock — a sample of lunar material.
- moonroof — a transparent section of an automobile roof that can be propped open, removed entirely, or remain fixed within the roof.
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- moonseed — any climbing plant of the genus Menispermum, having greenish-white flowers and crescent-shaped seeds.
- moonshee — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- moonship — a lunar module
- moonshot — the act or procedure of launching a rocket or spacecraft to the moon.
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moonwise — (nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
- moonwort — any fern of the genus Botrychium, especially B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets.
- new moon — the moon either when in conjunction with the sun or soon after, being either invisible or visible only as a slender crescent.
- noonhour — the hour between 12 noon and 1 p.m.
- noonmeat — (rare, archaic) A midday meal (especially including meat).
- noontide — the time of noon; midday.
- noontime — noon; noontide; noonday: Will he be home at noontime?
- octaroon — Alternative spelling of octoroon.
- octoroon — a person having one-eighth black ancestry, with one black great-grandparent; the offspring of a quadroon and a white person.
- old moon — waning moon.
- oversoon — too soon
- parazoon — an animal parasite
- picaroon — a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
- poltroon — a wretched coward; craven.
- polyzoon — an individual zooid within a polyzoan
- poontang — sexual intercourse with a woman.
- prostoon — (in classical architecture) a portico.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- raccoons — Plural form of raccoon.
- ratooner — a plant that grows by ratooning
- rigadoon — a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
- schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
- shagroon — a nineteenth-century Australian settler in Canterbury
- shalloon — a light, twilled woolen fabric used chiefly for linings.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spittoon — a cuspidor.
- spontoon — a shafted weapon having a pointed blade with crossbar at its base, used by infantry officers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- spoonful — as much as a spoon can hold.
- spoonier — foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
- spoonily — in a spoony manner