8-letter words containing a, n, t, i, o
- ligation — the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- limation — The act of filing or polishing.
- loaf tin — a tin that is used for baking bread
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- lobation — lobate formation.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- lothians — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- lunation — the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- mannitol — Chemistry. a white, crystalline, sweetish, water-soluble, carbohydrate alcohol, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in three optically different forms, the common one being found in the manna of the ash Fraxinus ornus and in other plants: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, electrolytic condensers for radios, plasticizers, and mannitol hexanitrate, and as a pill excipient.
- marmiton — A chef's assistant, kitchen boy.
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- martinon — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- miltonia — any of various epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Miltonia, having sprays of showy, flat, variously colored flowers.
- minamoto — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns from 1192 to 1333.
- minatory — menacing; threatening.
- miniator — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monastir — Bitola
- monazite — a reddish- or yellowish-brown mineral, a phosphate of cerium and lanthanum, (Ce,La)PO 4 : the principal ore of thorium.
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montilla — a dry, rather bitter wine of Spain.
- mortmain — the condition of lands or tenements held without right of alienation, as by an ecclesiastical corporation; inalienable ownership.
- motional — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- mountain — heap of sth
- mutation — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- myatonia — deficient muscle tone.
- myotonia — tonic muscle spasm or muscular rigidity.
- narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
- natation — an act or the skill of swimming.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- negation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- nicotian — the tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum; tobacco itself
- nidation — implantation of an embryo in the lining of the uterus.
- nitrator — A reaction vessel in which nitration takes place.
- nivation — erosion resulting from the action of frost beneath a snowbank.
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nodality — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- nodation — a thing that is knotted or lumpy