9-letter words that end in on
- arcuation — the use of arches or vaults in buildings
- arenation — the use of hot sand as a medical poultice
- arlington — a county of N Virginia: site of Arlington National Cemetery
- arnoldson — Klas Pontus [klahs pawn-tuh s] /klɑs ˈpɔn təs/ (Show IPA), 1844–1916, Swedish author and politician: Nobel Peace Prize 1908.
- art union — a lottery, often with prizes other than cash
- arternoon — Eye dialect of afternoon.
- arylation — to introduce one or more aryl groups into (a compound).
- ascension — In some religions, when someone goes to heaven, you can refer to their ascension to heaven.
- ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
- aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
- assay ton — a unit of weight used in assaying ore, equivalent to 29.167 grams.
- assertion — a positive statement, usually made without an attempt at furnishing evidence
- asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
- attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
- attrition — Attrition is a process in which you steadily reduce the strength of an enemy by continually attacking them.
- attuition — a way of mentally perceiving which is between human perception and animal sensation
- aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
- automaton — If you say that someone is an automaton, you are critical of them because they behave as if they are so tired or bored that they do things without thinking.
- avicebron — (Solomon ben Judah ibn-Gabirol) 1021?–58, Jewish poet and philosopher in Spain.
- avigation — aerial navigation.
- avocation — Your avocation is a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.
- avolition — Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy.
- b horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the A horizon, containing deposits of leached material
- b-s meson — a neutral meson with a mass 10,507 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.6 X 10 -12 seconds.
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- badminton — Badminton is a game played by two or four players on a rectangular court with a high net across the middle. The players try to score points by hitting a small object called a shuttlecock across the net using a racket.
- bajillion — an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount
- bandoneon — a type of square concertina, esp used in Argentina
- bandwagon — You can refer to an activity or movement that has suddenly become fashionable or popular as a bandwagon.
- bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- barberton — a city in NE Ohio.
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- barracoon — (formerly) a temporary place of confinement for slaves or convicts, esp those awaiting transportation
- basilicon — any of a variety of healing ointments applied to wounds in early medicine, commonly using lard or oil, resin, and wax
- battalion — A battalion is a large group of soldiers that consists of three or more companies.
- batten on — If you say that someone battens on a particular person or thing, you disapprove of the fact that they become successful by forming a close connection with that person or thing.
- bazillion — a very large, indefinite number
- be big on — large, as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity.
- be pie on — to be keen on
- beaverton — a town in NW Oregon.
- bebington — a town in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: docks and chemical works. Pop: 57 066 (2001)
- belection — bolection.
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- betterton — Thomas, 1635?–1710, English actor and dramatist.
- bick-iron — the tapered end of an anvil.
- bijection — a mathematical function or mapping that is both an injection and a surjection and therefore has an inverse
- bilection — bolection
- bioregion — a natural ecological community in which the biodiversity and ecosystem are distinct
- bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.