8-letter words containing n, i, t, r, o
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- martinon — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- minatory — menacing; threatening.
- miniator — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- minorite — Friar Minor.
- minority — the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
- 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.
- mirliton — kazoo.
- monastir — Bitola
- monitors — Plural form of monitor.
- monitory — serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
- monitrix — (archaic) A female monitor; a monitress.
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- moronity — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- mortling — wool obtained from dead sheep.
- mortmain — the condition of lands or tenements held without right of alienation, as by an ecclesiastical corporation; inalienable ownership.
- motioner — One who makes a motion; a mover.
- motoring — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- necrotic — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- neoteric — modern; new; recent.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- neutrois — noting or relating to a person of neutral gender who also lacks a specific gender identity.
- nitrator — A reaction vessel in which nitration takes place.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- nitrolic — of or noting a series of acids of the type RC(=NOH)NO 2 , whose salts form deep-red solutions.
- nitroso- — of or containing nitrosyl
- nitrosyl — nitroso.
- nitroxyl — the chemical compound HNO
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- noninert — not inert
- nonprint — of, relating to, or consisting of other than printed matter: Slide shows, slide-tape presentations, and video are nonprint media.
- northing — northward movement or deviation.
- nostrils — either of the two external openings of the nose.
- notarial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a notary public.
- notaries — Plural form of notary.
- notarise — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- notarize — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- notifier — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- notornis — a rare, flightless gallinulelike bird, Notornis mantelli, of New Zealand.
- noverint — a writ
- obtainer — One who obtains.
- offprint — Also called separate. a reprint of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.
- 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.
- on trial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- oneriest — Superlative form of onery.