10-letter words that end in on
- conflation — a combining, as of two variant readings of a text into a composite reading
- congestion — If there is congestion in a place, the place is extremely crowded and blocked with traffic or people.
- connection — A connection is a relationship between two things, people, or groups.
- conniption — a fit of rage or tantrums
- consension — agreement or concurrence in attitude, opinion, or thought
- consortion — a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch. Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- contaction — (obsolete) An act of touching.
- contention — Someone's contention is the idea or opinion that they are expressing in an argument or discussion.
- contorsion — Misspelling of contortion.
- contortion — Contortions are movements of your body or face into unusual shapes or positions.
- contrition — deeply felt remorse; penitence
- convection — Convection is the process by which heat travels through air, water, and other gases and liquids.
- convention — A convention is a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society.
- conversion — Conversion is the act or process of changing something into a different state or form.
- convertion — Misspelling of conversion.
- conviction — a fixed or firmly held belief, opinion, etc
- convulsion — If someone has convulsions, they suffer uncontrollable movements of their muscles.
- cooptation — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- corelation — a correlation
- coronation — A coronation is the ceremony at which a king or queen is crowned.
- corotation — the act of corotating
- correction — Corrections are marks or comments made on a piece of work, especially school work, which indicate where there are mistakes and what are the right answers.
- correption — the shortening of vowels in pronunciation
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- count upon — depend on, rely on
- counterion — an ion that has the opposite charge to that of another ion within the same solution
- crab canon — a canon in which the imitating voice repeats the notes of the theme in reverse order
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- crooked on — hostile or averse to
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cunctation — delay
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- datamation — the processing of data by computers
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declension — the inflection of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives for case, number, and gender
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.