8-letter words containing i, n, s, o
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
- osmosing — Present participle of osmose.
- 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.
- ossining — a town in SE New York, on the Hudson: the site of a state prison formerly known as Sing Sing.
- ostinato — a constantly recurring melodic fragment.
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- outlines — Plural form of outline.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outsings — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsing.
- outsting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
- ovations — Plural form of ovation.
- overspin — topspin.
- paraison — parison.
- pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
- passions — desire
- patinous — patinated.
- pensione — an Italian boarding house or small hotel
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- pi meson — pion.
- pignolis — pine nut (def 1).
- pin-spot — to illuminate with a pin spot.
- pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- pointers — a person or thing that points.
- poisoner — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- polanski — Roman. born 1933, Polish film director with a taste for the macabre, as in Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968): later films include Tess (1980), Death and the Maiden (1995), and The Pianist (2002)
- polonism — a Polish characteristic or sense of identity
- polonius — the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- pontoise — a department in N France. 482 sq. mi. (1248 sq. km). Capital: Pontoise.
- ponyskin — the leather from a pony hide
- poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
- porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
- poseidon — the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes, identified by the Romans with Neptune.
- posingly — in a posing manner
- positing — to place, put, or set.
- position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- positron — an elementary particle having the same mass and spin as an electron but having a positive charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron's negative charge; the antiparticle of the electron.
- postnati — those born after a particular event, esp in Scotland after the union with England or in the US after the Declaration of Independence
- prazosin — a white crystalline substance, C 1 9 H 2 1 N 5 O 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- pression — an act of pressing
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- proggins — a university proctor
- proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- psilocin — a psilocybin metabolite with strong hallucinogenic potency, produced after ingestion of the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.