8-letter words containing a, u, s, o
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hautboys — Plural form of hautboy.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- houseman — a male servant who performs general duties in a home, hotel, etc.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- insuloma — a benign tumor of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas that may produce signs of hypoglycemia.
- isoquant — (economics) A line of equal or constant economic production on a graph, chart or map.
- jaloused — Simple past tense and past participle of jalouse.
- jalousie — a blind or shutter made with horizontal slats that can be adjusted to admit light and air but exclude rain and the rays of the sun.
- jealouse — to suspect
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- journals — Plural form of journal.
- jugoslav — a native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- laminous — laminate; laminose.
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- lash out — the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip.
- last out — to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- madhouse — a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- mailouts — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- mao suit — an outfit worn in the People's Republic of China consisting of a Mao jacket and loose trousers.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- miasmous — miasmal
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- mousemat — a piece of material on which a computer mouse is moved
- moussaka — a baked dish consisting of layers of sautéed slices of eggplant and ground lamb usually flavored with tomatoes, onions, and cinnamon, and covered with a custard sauce sprinkled with grated cheese.
- mulattos — Plural form of mulatto.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- narquois — mocking, malicious, or snide
- nauseous — affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- neurosal — of or relating to neurosis; afflicted by a neurosis