9-letter words that end in rn
- millibarn — one thousandth of a barn. Abbreviation: mb.
- misgovern — to govern or manage badly.
- nebenkern — a mitochondrial structure in the sperm of certain insects
- no-return — nonreturnable (def 2).
- nonmodern — Having characteristics of past times; not modern.
- nonreturn — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
- octothorn — Alternative form of octothorpe, the symbol #.
- otterburn — a village in central Northumberland, in NE England: battle of Chevy Chase 1388.
- overlearn — to learn or memorize beyond the point of proficiency or immediate recall.
- paderborn — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, in NW Germany.
- post horn — a straight or coiled copper or brass horn with no valves or slide, originally used to announce mail coaches.
- premodern — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
- prereturn — of the period before return
- promodern — in favour of the modern
- pronghorn — a fleet, antelopelike ruminant, Antilocapra americana, of the plains of western North America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- repattern — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- rope yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- seed corn — ears or kernels of corn set apart as seed.
- seed fern — any of various plants of the order Lyginopteridales (or Cycadofilicales), known only as fossils, having fernlike leaves and reproducing by means of seeds.
- serricorn — a beetle with serrate antennae
- shop-worn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shorthorn — one of an English breed of red, white, or roan beef cattle, some having short horns and some naturally hornless.
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- soft porn — soft-core pornography.
- solothurn — a city in NW Switzerland, on the Aar River: capital of canton of Solothurn.
- spun yarn — yarn produced by spinning fibers into a continuous strand.
- star turn — the leading performer or act in a play, review, film, or the like.
- steinkern — the fossilized outline of a hollow organic structure, as a skull or a mollusk shell, formed when mud or sediment consolidated within the structure and the structure itself disintegrated or dissolved.
- stem turn — a turn in which a skier stems one ski in the direction to be turned and brings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- step turn — a turn in which a skier lifts one ski from the snow, faces the ski slightly outward in the direction to be turned, sets it down, and brings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- stillborn — dead when born.
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- stockhorn — pibgorn.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- sweetcorn — Sweetcorn is a long rounded vegetable covered in small yellow seeds. It is part of the maize plant. The seeds themselves can also be referred to as sweetcorn.
- time-worn — worn or impaired by time.
- to a turn — to the proper amount; perfectly
- tree fern — any of various ferns, mostly tropical and chiefly of the family Cyatheaceae, that attain the size of trees, sending up a straight trunklike stem with foliage at the summit.
- true-born — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- unconcern — absence of feeling or concern; indifference.
- videoporn — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- wall fern — the polypody, especially Polypodium vulgare or P. virginianum.
- waterworn — worn by the action of water; smoothed by the force or movement of water.
- weisshorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Alps. 14,804 feet (4512 meters).
- well-born — born of a good, noble, or highly esteemed family.
- well-worn — showing the effects of extensive use or wear: well-worn carpets.
- wood fern — any of several shield ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
- work-worn — roughened by hard work