9-letter words that end in on
- decession — a going away, lessening, or weakening
- decide on — If you decide on something or decide upon something, you choose it from two or more possibilities.
- decillion — (in Britain, France, and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 60 zeros (1060)
- decoction — the extraction of the water-soluble substances of a drug or medicinal plants by boiling
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- definiton — Misspelling of definition.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- deflexion — deflection
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- demersion — immersion in a fluid
- demission — relinquishment of or abdication from an office, responsibility, etc
- dentation — the state or condition of being dentate
- dentition — the arrangement, type, and number of the teeth in a particular species. Man has a primary dentition of deciduous teeth and a secondary dentition of permanent teeth
- depiction — A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it.
- depletion — a depleting or being depleted
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- detection — Detection is the act of noticing or sensing something.
- detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detortion — The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
- detrition — the act of rubbing or wearing away by friction
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- dialation — Misspelling of dilation.
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.
- dickinson — Emily. 1830–86, US poet, noted for her short, mostly unrhymed, mystical lyrics
- dictation — Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.
- didrikson — Mildred(Mrs. George Zaharias) 1913-56; U.S. athlete in many sports
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- digestion — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- dignotion — (obsolete) distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
- dimension — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- diplozoon — a type of parasitic flatworm that exists as a pair of worms fused together in an X shape. Diplozoa fuse after meeting as two juvenile individuals (genus Diporpae) and are parasitic on the gills of fish
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- discommon — (at Oxford and Cambridge) to prohibit (tradespeople or townspeople who have violated the regulations of the university) from dealing with the undergraduates.
- disection — Misspelling of dissection.
- disprison — to release from prison
- diversion — the act of diverting or turning aside, as from a course or purpose: a diversion of industry into the war effort.
- divulsion — a tearing apart; violent separation.
- dodecagon — a polygon having 12 angles and 12 sides.
- dormition — the process of falling asleep
- doubleton — a set of only two cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt: The other player held a doubleton.