8-letter words containing l, u, i, n
- nautilus — Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
- navicula — an incense holder or incense boat
- nebulise — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.
- nebulize — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nieveful — a fistful, the quantity that may be contained in a closed fist
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- noiseful — characterized by loud noise; noisy
- nonfluid — a substance that is not a fluid
- nonguilt — the state of being innocent or not guilty
- nubility — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- nucleoli — a conspicuous, rounded body within the nucleus of a cell.
- nuclides — Plural form of nuclide.
- nuclidic — Of or pertaining to nuclides.
- nudicaul — having leafless stems.
- nuffield — William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield. 1877–1963, English motorcar manufacturer and philanthropist. He endowed Nuffield College at Oxford (1937) and the Nuffield Foundation (1943), a charitable trust for the furtherance of medicine and education
- nundinal — any of the letters of the alphabet from A to H that related to the days of the ancient Roman week
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nursling — an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.
- nuzzling — Present participle of nuzzle.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outlined — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- outlines — Plural form of outline.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- paludine — marshy
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plainful — sad and mournful
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- plugging — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plunging — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- polonium — a radioactive element discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898; Symbol: Po; atomic number: 84; atomic weight: about 210.
- polonius — the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.