8-letter words containing i, n, s, o
- stooling — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stooping — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stoozing — the practice of borrowing money at low interest for investment in a high-interest account
- stopping — the act of stopping.
- storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- storting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
- stotinka — a minor coin of Bulgaria, the 100th part of a lev.
- stovaine — a drug used for anaesthetic purposes and as a cocaine substitute
- stowlins — stealthily
- stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
- strontia — Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
- strontic — of or relating to strontium
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- sudation — sweating; sweat
- sulfonic — sulfo.
- swaption — A swaption is an over-the-counter option on a swap.
- swinepox — a variety of chicken pox.
- swoffing — the sport of saltwater fly-fishing
- swooning — to faint; lose consciousness.
- swooping — to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
- swotting — to study or work hard.
- syconium — a multiple fruit developed from a hollow fleshy receptacle containing numerous flowers, as in the fig.
- syconoid — pertaining to or resembling a sycon.
- symbiont — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
- syncopic — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- synopsis — a brief or condensed statement giving a general view of some subject.
- synoptic — pertaining to or constituting a synopsis; affording or taking a general view of the principal parts of a subject.
- synovial — a lubricating fluid resembling the white of an egg, secreted by certain membranes, as those of the joints.
- syntonic — Electricity. adjusted to oscillations of the same or a particular frequency.
- syntonin — a substance found in muscle tissue
- tenorist — a person who sings tenor.
- teosinte — a tall grass, Zea mexicana, of Mexico and Central America, closely related to corn, and sometimes cultivated as a fodder plant.
- thymosin — a hormone, produced by the thymus gland, that promotes the development of T cells from stem cells.
- tinstone — cassiterite.
- tinworks — an establishment for the mining or processing of tin or for the making of tinware.
- titanous — containing trivalent titanium.
- tithonus — the son of Laomedon of Troy who was loved by the goddess Eos. She asked that he be made immortal but forgot to ask that he be made eternally young. When he aged, she turned him into a grasshopper
- toasting — the act of raising a toast
- tokenism — the practice or policy of making no more than a token effort or gesture, as in offering opportunities to minorities equal to those of the majority.
- tompkins — Daniel D. 1774–1825, U.S. politician and jurist: vice president of the U.S. 1817–25.
- tonalist — a person who works with or uses tonality, especially one who uses traditional tonality rather than atonality in composing music.
- tonetics — the phonetic study of tone in language.
- tonishly — in a stylish or fashionable manner
- tonsilar — of or relating to the tonsils
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- township — a unit of local government, usually a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. and in most Canadian provinces.
- townskip — a mischievous and roguish child who frequents city streets
- tritonis — (in ancient geography) a mythical lake near the Mediterranean coast of Libya.