5-letter words containing n, o
- elgon — Mountextinct volcano on the Kenyan-Ugandan border: 14,178 ft (4,321 m): crater, 5 mi (8 km) wide
- elton — Ben(jamin) (Charles). born 1959, British comedian, scriptwriter, playwright, and novelist; his work includes the Blackadder series for television (1987–89), the play Gasping (1990), the novel High Society (2002), and the lyrics to the musical We Will Rock You (2002)
- endo- — inside; within
- endos — Plural form of endo.
- endow — Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution).
- enjoy — Take delight or pleasure in (an activity or occasion).
- ennog — a back alley
- enoch — the eldest son of Cain after whom the first city was named (Genesis 4:17)
- enode — (obsolete) To clear of knots; to make clear.
- enoki — An edible Japanese mushroom, growing in clusters, with slender stems and small caps.
- enols — Plural form of enol.
- enorm — (obsolete) enormous.
- enrol — (British) alternative spelling of enroll.
- ensor — James (Sydney). 1860–1949, Belgian expressionist painter, noted for his macabre subjects
- ento- — inside; within
- envoi — A short stanza concluding a ballade.
- envoy — A messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission.
- eosin — A red fluorescent dye that is a bromine derivative of fluorescein, or one of its salts or other derivatives.
- ergon — (physics) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.
- escon — Enterprise Systems CONnectivity
- exons — Plural form of exon.
- facon — a fashion; manner; style.
- fango — clay or mud, especially a clay obtained from certain hot springs in Battaglio, Italy, used as a hot application in the treatment of certain diseases.
- fanon — Frantz (Omar) [frants oh-mahr;; French frahnts aw-mar] /frænts ˈoʊ mɑr;; French frɑ̃ts ɔˈmar/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
- fanos — a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- felon — an acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of a finger or toe, usually near the nail: a form of whitlow.
- fingo — a member of a Xhosa-speaking people settled in southern Africa in the Ciskei and Transkei: originally refugees from the Zulu wars of conquest
- fiona — a female given name.
- fionn — Finn.
- flong — the material of which a stereotype mold is made.
- flown — a past participle of fly1 .
- fnord — 1. (convention) A word used in electronic mail and news messages to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humour, especially in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?" 2. (programming) A metasyntactic variable, commonly used by hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius. The word "fnord" was invented in the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
- foehn — a warm, dry wind descending a mountain, as on the north side of the Alps.
- foine — Eye dialect of fine.
- foins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foin.
- fonda — an inn or restaurant.
- fonds — a background or groundwork, especially of lace.
- fondu — fondue (def 4).
- fonly — foolishly
- fonts — Plural form of font.
- forne — (obsolete) Former.
- found — simple past tense and past participle of find.
- fount — font2 .
- freon — (organic compound) Any of several non-flammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.
- frond — an often large, finely divided leaf, especially as applied to the ferns and certain palms.
- frons — the upper anterior portion of the head of an insect, above or behind the clypeus.
- front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frown — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- fungo — (in practice sessions) a ball tossed into the air by the batter and struck as it comes down.
- futon — a thin mattress, usually filled with layers of cotton batting and encased in cotton fabric, placed on a floor for sleeping, especially in traditional Japanese interiors, and folded and stored during the day.