8-letter words containing e, n, s, o, u
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- resinous — full of or containing resin.
- resummon — to summon again
- rounders — a person or thing that rounds something.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- seahound — a dogfish
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- selenous — selenious.
- send out — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- sensuous — perceived by or affecting the senses: the sensuous qualities of music.
- set upon — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shenzhou — any of a series of manned Chinese spacecraft
- soundest — free from injury, damage, defect, disease, etc.; in good condition; healthy; robust: a sound heart; a sound mind.
- soupbone — a bone used for making soup or broth.
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- sourness — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- st.-ouen — a suburb of Paris in N France.
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- sub-note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis
- summoned — to call upon to do something specified.
- summoner — to call upon to do something specified.
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- sunstone — a reddish variety of oligoclase feldspar, used as a gem, having a red and bright-yellow play of color.
- swounded — swoon.
- teutones — the members of an ancient people, variously thought to have spoken a Germanic or a Celtic language, that lived north of the Elbe in Jutland
- tubenose — tubesnout.
- turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- unchosen — a past participle of choose.
- unclosed — not closed: an unclosed door.
- unkosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- unloosen — to unloose; loosen.
- unperson — a public figure, especially in a totalitarian country, who, for political or ideological reasons, is not recognized or mentioned in government publications or records or in the news media.
- unpoised — not poised; unbalanced
- unposted — not sent by post
- unreason — inability or unwillingness to think or act rationally, reasonably, or sensibly; irrationality.
- unroused — undisturbed
- unseason — to fail to season
- unseldom — regularly
- unsmoked — (of meat, fish, etc) not hung over burning wood to preserve or flavour it