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8-letter words containing n, e, o, s, t

  • one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
  • one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
  • oneriest — Superlative form of onery.
  • onsetter — a person who attacks
  • onstream — Being produced.
  • oostende — a seaport in NW Belgium.
  • open set — a set which is not a closed set
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openstep — (operating system)   An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
  • operants — Plural form of operant.
  • ornithes — birds considered collectively
  • ossetian — Also, Ossetic. of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossetia, a region in Caucasia, or the Ossets, the people living there.
  • osteogen — (physiology) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.
  • ouessant — French name of Ushant.
  • outlines — Plural form of outline.
  • outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
  • outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
  • outsnore — to outdo in snoring
  • outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
  • outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
  • paste-on — that can be pasted or stuck on: canning jars with paste-on labels.
  • paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • penstock — a pipe conducting water from a head gate to a waterwheel.
  • pentosan — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
  • peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
  • peterson — Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
  • phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • pleonast — someone who uses more words than necessary
  • pleuston — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
  • pointers — a person or thing that points.
  • pontoise — a department in N France. 482 sq. mi. (1248 sq. km). Capital: Pontoise.
  • porniest — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
  • postpone — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
  • postteen — a person older than a teenager; young adult
  • potstone — a kind of soapstone, sometimes used for making pots and other household utensils.
  • proteins — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • protense — extension in time
  • question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • ragstone — a hard sandstone or limestone, esp when used for building
  • redstone — a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
  • resoften — to make or become soft again
  • resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
  • resonate — to resound.
  • rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
  • rosemont — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
  • rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
  • routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
  • rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
  • salmonet — a young salmon
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