8-letter words containing i, t, o, u
- kick-out — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- laid out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- line out — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- line-out — a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- live out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
- live-out — residing away from the place of one's employment: a live-out cook.
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- loquitur — (he or she) speaks (with the speaker’s name following, as a stage direction or to inform the reader).
- lunation — the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.
- luteolin — a yellow coloring substance, C 15 H 10 O 6 , obtained from the weed Reseda luteola: used in dyeing silk and, formerly, in medicine.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- mail out — If someone mails out things such as letters, leaflets, or bills, they send them to a large number of people at the same time.
- mail-out — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailouts — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- 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.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- mind out — to be careful or pay attention
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- misquote — a quotation that is incorrect.
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- miss out — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- moistful — loaded with or full of wetness or moisture
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- mosquito — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- moulinet — a portable pulley device for bending crossbow or turning the drum of a crane
- moulting — Present participle of moult.
- moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- mountain — heap of sth
- mounties — Plural form of mountie.
- mounting — A backing, setting, or support for something.
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- mouthily — in a mouthy or bombastic manner
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- mucosity — The state of being mucous.
- multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
- multiton — Weighing more than one ton.
- multitos — (operating system) (MTOS) A new version of TOS. MultiTOS's main advantage was support for pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection. It also supported the latest (and far superior) versions of GEM. MultiTOS was supplied with the Falcon030 range of computers from Atari. It is a little known fact that the MultiTOS kernel was based heavily on the freeware OS MinT which was developed long before Atari got MultiTOS working.
- munition — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- mutation — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.