8-letter words that end in on
- ilkeston — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 37 270 (2001)
- illation — the act of inferring.
- illision — (obsolete) The act of dashing or striking against.
- illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- impoison — Obsolete form of empoison.
- imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- inaction — absence of action; idleness.
- incision — a cut, gash, or notch.
- inertion — Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude.
- infixion — to fix, fasten, or drive in: He infixed the fatal spear.
- infusion — the act or process of infusing.
- inhesion — the state or fact of inhering; inherence.
- insition — The insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.
- invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- iphition — (in the Iliad) a Trojan warrior slain by Achilles.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- irenicon — A proposition, scheme, or treatise designed to promote peace, especially in the church.
- irrision — (obsolete) The act of laughing at another; derision.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- isocolon — a figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structure formed by the use of two or more clauses, or cola, of similar length, as “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”.
- isodicon — (in the Greek Orthodox Church) a short anthem performed while the Gospel is being carried into a church
- isodomon — (in Greek history) masonry formed of uniform blocks, with courses of equal height
- jakobson — Roman [roh-mahn,, -muh n] /ˈroʊ mɑn,, -mən/ (Show IPA), 1896–1982, U.S. linguist and scholar, born in Russia.
- jettison — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jobation — an extensive rebuke; scolding
- johnston — Albert Sidney, 1803–62, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- kakiemon — a Japanese porcelain design credited to Kakiemon Sakaida, first produced in the 17th century and widely collected and imitated in the West
- kenotron — a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier, for example in circuits of X-ray tubes
- kingston — an island in the West Indies, S of Cuba. 4413 sq. mi. (11,430 sq. km).
- klystron — An electron tube that generates or amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation.
- knock-on — If there is a knock-on effect, one action or event causes several other events to happen one after the other.
- langston — John Mercer, 1829–97, U.S. public official, diplomat, and educator.
- laomedon — a king of Troy and the father of Priam, for whom the walls of Troy were built by Apollo and Poseidon.
- latch on — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- later on — a comparative of late: Her later years were not happy.
- laughton — Charles, 1899–1962, U.S. actor, born in England.
- lavation — the process of washing.
- laxation — a loosening or relaxing.
- leg iron — a shackle for a prisoner's leg
- legation — a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- leighton — Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton) 1830–96, English painter and sculptor.
- lenition — Phonetics. a phonological process that weakens consonant articulation at the ends of syllables or between vowels, causing the consonant to become voiced, spirantized, or deleted.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- lewisson — lewis.
- lewiston — a city in SW Maine.
- libation — a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- ligation — the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.