9-letter words containing ron
- computron — (jargon) /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing power combining execution speed and storage capacity. E.g. "That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enough computrons!" 2. A mythical subatomic particle that carries computation or information, in much the same way that an electron carries electric charge (see also bogon).
- confronte — (of two animals) face to face
- confronts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confront.
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- coronally — in a coronal manner
- coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- coroneted — wearing a coronet
- coronitis — inflammation of the coronary cushion of hoofed animals.
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- cronelike — Like a crone; old and withered.
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cyclotron — a type of particle accelerator in which the particles spiral inside two D-shaped hollow metal electrodes placed facing each other under the effect of a strong vertical magnetic field, gaining energy by a high-frequency voltage applied between these electrodes
- de varona — Donna, born 1947, U.S. swimmer.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- droningly — With a droning sound.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- electrons — Plural form of electron.
- enronitis — a situation in which large corporations fail to secure investment because they are suspected of fraud and mismanagement
- enthroned — Formally placed in a position.
- environed — Simple past tense and past participle of environ.
- ephemeron — An insect that lives only for a day or a few days.
- erroneous — Wrong; incorrect.
- fanfarona — a gold chain
- flatirons — Plural form of flatiron.
- fly front — a flap of material down one side of the front opening of a garment to conceal buttons, fasteners, or the like, as on a coat or dress.
- forefront — the foremost part or place.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- front end — 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a "back end"). 2. Software that provides an interface to another program "behind" it, which may not be as user-friendly. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends that interfaced with mainframes.
- front man — a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group.
- front row — the forwards at the front of a scrum
- front-end — relating to foremost part
- frontager — an owner of property or land which immediately faces a beach or street
- frontages — Plural form of frontage.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- frontenis — a Latin American game, resembling squash, played with rackets and a hard rubber ball on a three-walled court similar to a jai alai court.
- frontiers — Plural form of frontier.
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- frontless — shameless; unblushing.