8-letter words containing m, o, t, r
- motorway — an expressway.
- moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- mouterer — a miller who receives payment for grinding corn
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- nonmetro — Nonmetropolitan.
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
- noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
- northman — one of the ancient Scandinavians, especially a member of the group that from about the 8th to the 11th century made many raids and established settlements in Great Britain, Ireland, many parts of continental Europe, and probably in parts of North America.
- northumb — Northumberland
- nostromo — a novel (1904) by Joseph Conrad.
- nostrums — a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- obtemper — to comply (with)
- odometer — an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
- odometre — (nonstandard, and, now, largely obsolete) Alternative form of odometer.
- odometry — an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
- ohmmeter — an instrument for measuring electric resistance in ohms.
- oldtimer — An elderly person.
- on merit — If you judge something or someone on merit or on their merits, your judgment is based on what you notice when you consider them, rather than on things that you know about them from other sources.
- onstream — Being produced.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
- orometer — an aneroid barometer with a scale giving elevations above sea level, used to determine land-surface altitudes.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.
- outcharm — to exceed in charming
- outdream — to exceed in dreaming
- outhomer — to score more home runs than
- outhumor — to exceed in humouring
- outmarch — to march faster or farther than.
- outremer — An area beyond the sea.
- outsmart — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- outtrump — to outplay or exceed in trumping
- overmast — to provide (a ship) with a mast that is too tall or heavy
- overmelt — to melt too much
- overtame — too tame
- overteem — to produce or breed excessively
- overtime — working time before or after one's regularly scheduled working hours; extra working time.
- overtrim — to trim too much
- oximeter — an instrument for measuring the oxygen saturation of the hemoglobin in a sample of blood.
- oximetry — the measuring of oxygen saturation of the blood by means of an oximeter.
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- pontormo — Jacopo da (ˈjaːkopo da). original name Jacopo Carrucci. 1494–1556, Italian mannerist painter