10-letter words containing o, n
- absolution — If someone is given absolution, they are forgiven for something wrong that they have done.
- absorbance — a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance
- absorbancy — absorbance
- absorbency — capable of absorbing heat, light, moisture, etc.; tending to absorb.
- absorbents — Plural form of absorbent.
- absorption — The absorption of a liquid, gas, or other substance is the process of it being soaked up or taken in.
- abstenious — Misspelling of abstemious (or possibly of abstentious.).
- abstention — Abstention is a formal act of not voting either for or against a proposal.
- abstersion — the act of wiping clean or cleansing
- absumption — (obsolete) Gradual destruction or disintegration; wasting away.
- acanaceous — possessing prickles or thorns
- acanthosis — (medicine) A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.(First attested in the late 19th century.).
- acceptions — Plural form of acception.
- accessions — Plural form of accession.
- accomptant — an accountant
- accordance — conformity; agreement; accord (esp in the phrase in accordance with)
- accordancy — accord; agreement
- accordions — Plural form of accordion.
- accordment — (obsolete) Agreement; reconcilement.
- accountant — An accountant is a person whose job is to keep financial accounts.
- accounting — Accounting is the activity of keeping detailed records of the amounts of money a business or person receives and spends.
- accoutring — Present participle of accoutre.
- accretions — Plural form of accretion.
- accrington — a town in NW England, in SE Lancashire. Pop: 35 203 (2001)
- accubation — the action or state of leaning backwards, esp at a table for meals
- accusation — If you make an accusation against someone, you criticize them or express the belief that they have done something wrong.
- acerbation — (rare) Bitterness of feeling.
- acervation — a heaping or piling up, gathering, accumulation
- acetonemia — ketonemia.
- acetonuria — ketonuria.
- acherontic — Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
- achondrite — a rare stony meteorite that consists mainly of silicate minerals and has the texture of igneous rock but contains no chondrules
- achromatin — the material of the nucleus of a cell that does not stain with basic dyes
- achromycin — tetracycline
- acidogenic — producing acid, as bacteria, or causing acidity, as of the urine.
- acinaceous — containing or consisting of kernels, particularly the seeds or stones of grapes
- acinarious — covered with globose vesicles resembling grape seeds, as certain algae.
- acknowledg — Obsolete form of acknowledge.
- acorn tube — a small vacuum tube shaped like an acorn
- acorn worm — any of various small burrowing marine animals of the genus Balanoglossus and related genera, having an elongated wormlike body with an acorn-shaped eversible proboscis at the head end: subphylum Hemichordata (hemichordates)
- acotyledon — any plant, such as a fern or moss, that does not possess cotyledons
- acrogenous — (botany) Increasing by growth from the extremity.
- acrogynous — having the female reproductive organ arising from the apical cell of the stem, thereby terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- acronychal — occurring at sunset
- acronyming — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acronymous — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acrophonic — the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the word the logogram represented, as, in Semitic writing, the use of a picture of a shepherd's crook to represent the sound (l), the first sound of lamed, the Hebrew word for a shepherd's crook.
- acroterion — acroterium.
- actiniform — having radial form; rayed
- actinogram — the record produced by the action of an actinograph.