8-letter words containing e, u, o, n
- routeing — (networking) (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- run over — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- 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
- teutonic — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- tomentum — pubescence consisting of longish, soft, entangled hairs pressed close to the surface.
- tonneaux — a rear part or compartment of an automobile body, containing seats for passengers.
- toucanet — any of several small South and Central American toucans, especially of the genus Aulacorhynchus.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tourneur — Cyril, 1575?–1626, English dramatist.
- tournure — an outline or contour
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- tubenose — tubesnout.
- tune out — a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turnover — an act or result of turning over; upset.
- turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- unadored — not adored, revered, or worshipped
- unatoned — to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for): to atone for one's sins.