8-letter words containing a, n, o, s
- odorants — Plural form of odorant.
- odyssean — (italics) an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- onanists — withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- one-star — of or being a brigadier general, as indicated by one star on an insignia.
- onstream — Being produced.
- open sea — the main body of a sea or ocean, especially the part that is outside territorial waters and not enclosed, or partially enclosed, by land.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
- orations — Plural form of oration.
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- organise — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- orinasal — pronounced with the voice issuing through the mouth and the nose simultaneously, as in the nasalized vowels of French.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- oronasal — of or relating to the mouth and the nose.
- ortolans — Plural form of ortolan.
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osmundas — Plural form of osmunda.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- ossetian — Also, Ossetic. of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossetia, a region in Caucasia, or the Ossets, the people living there.
- ossianic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossian, the poetry attributed to him, or the rhythmic prose published by James Macpherson in 1762–63, purporting to be a translation from the Scottish Gaelic.
- ostinato — a constantly recurring melodic fragment.
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- ottomans — Plural form of ottoman.
- ouessant — French name of Ushant.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outstand — to be prominent.
- ovalness — The quality of being oval.
- ovations — Plural form of ovation.
- oversman — an overseer
- pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- paraison — parison.
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- passions — desire
- paste-on — that can be pasted or stuck on: canning jars with paste-on labels.
- paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.