9-letter words that end in on
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- blue moon — If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
- bolection — a stepped moulding covering and projecting beyond the joint between two members having surfaces at different levels
- bombardon — a brass instrument of the tuba type, similar to a sousaphone
- bonington — Sir Chris(tian John Storey). born 1934, British mountaineer and writer; led 1970 Annapurna I and 1975 Everest expeditions; reached Everest summit in 1985
- border on — If you talk about a characteristic or situation bordering on something, usually something that you consider bad, you mean that it is almost that thing.
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- bradenton — a city in W Florida.
- brazelton — Brazelton behavioral scale: a test widely used to evaluate infants' responses to environmental stimuli.
- bremerton — a city in W Washington, on Puget Sound: navy yard.
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brondyron — a sword
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- c horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the B horizon and above the bedrock, composed of weathered rock little affected by soil-forming processes
- c-section — A C-section is the same as a Caesarean.
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- cantillon — Richard [ree-shar;; English rich-erd] /riˈʃar;; English ˈrɪtʃ ərd/ (Show IPA), c1680–1734, French economist, born in Ireland.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carnarvon — a seaport in W Gwynedd, in NW Wales, on Menai Strait: 13th-century castle of Edward II.
- carnation — A carnation is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- cassation — (esp in France) annulment, as of a judicial decision by a higher court
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- chalazion — a small cyst on the eyelid resulting from chronic inflammation of a meibomian gland
- chalcedon — ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451
- chameleon — A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings.
- chance on — to come upon by accident
- charleton — a male given name.
- chawbacon — an unsophisticated person of low intellect
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chiliagon — a thousand-sided polygon
- ciliation — Lb biology Quality of having cilia.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- clavation — the state of being clavate
- coalition — A coalition is a government consisting of people from two or more political parties.
- coaration — Cooperative ploughing.
- coaxation — (rare) The act of croaking.
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- cognation — relationship by descent from the same ancestor or source
- cognition — Cognition is the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.
- colcannon — a dish, originating in Ireland, of potatoes and cabbage or other greens boiled and mashed together