8-letter words containing n, a, o, s, c
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- eschaton — The final event in the divine plan; the end of the world.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- gascogne — Gascony
- glucosan — any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.
- guanacos — Plural form of guanaco.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
- icosagon — (mathematics) A polygon with twenty sides and twenty angles.
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.
- jacobins — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobsen — Jens Peter [yens pey-tuh r] /yɛns ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1847–85, Danish novelist.
- laconism — laconic brevity.
- lactones — Plural form of lactone.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- longcase — A longcase clock.
- macarons — Plural form of macaron.
- mascaron — mask (def 11).
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- narcosis — a state of stupor or drowsiness.
- niarchos — Stavros Spyros [stahv-raws spee-raws] /ˈstɑv rɔs ˈspi rɔs/ (Show IPA), 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nonacids — Plural form of nonacid.
- nonbasic — of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental: a basic principle; the basic ingredient.
- nonclass — Not a class, or not belonging to a class.
- notecase — billfold.
- ocarinas — Plural form of ocarina.
- occasion — a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
- octagons — Plural form of octagon.
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- organics — Plural form of organic.
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- 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.
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- raccoons — Plural form of raccoon.
- romansch — a group of Rhaetian dialects spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden; an official language of Switzerland since 1938
- salpicon — a mixture of chopped fish, meat, or vegetables in a sauce, used as fillings for croquettes, pastries, etc
- sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- scallion — any onion that does not form a large bulb; green onion.
- scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
- scansion — the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ or · for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and ‖ for a caesura or pause.