9-letter words that end in on
- collation — the act or process of collating
- collision — A collision occurs when a moving object crashes into something.
- collodion — a colourless or yellow syrupy liquid that consists of a solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol: used in medicine and in the manufacture of photographic plates, lacquers, etc
- collusion — Collusion is secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
- commotion — A commotion is a lot of noise, confusion, and excitement.
- communion — Communion with nature or with a person is the feeling that you are sharing thoughts or feelings with them.
- companion — A companion is someone who you spend time with or who you are travelling with.
- 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).
- concision — the quality of being concise; brevity; terseness
- condicion — Obsolete spelling of condition.
- condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- connation — a union of similar parts or organs
- connexion — the act or state of connecting.
- contagion — Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.
- contakion — kontakion.
- contusion — A contusion is a bruise.
- coportion — (obsolete, nonce) equal share.
- cornichon — a type of small gherkin
- corrasion — erosion of a rock surface by rock fragments transported over it by water, wind, or ice
- corrosion — Corrosion is the damage that is caused when something is corroded.
- coshocton — a city in E central Ohio.
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- cotillion — a French formation dance of the 18th century
- cotton on — If you cotton on to something, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it.
- cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
- covington — a city in N Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- criterion — A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- 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
- d-horizon — a stratum, as of rock, sometimes underlying the C-horizon
- d-s meson — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- daedalion — a son of Lucifer who, despondent over the death of his daughter Chione, leaped off Parnassus: Apollo changed him into a hawk.
- damnation — According to some religions, if someone suffers damnation, they have to stay in hell for ever after they have died because of their sins.
- dandelion — A dandelion is a wild plant which has yellow flowers with lots of thin petals. When the petals of each flower drop off, a fluffy white ball of seeds grows.
- darnation — Alternative form of tarnation.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- 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
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- 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
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.