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8-letter words containing n, o, c, e

  • pretonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
  • procaine — a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
  • provence — a region in SE France, bordering on the Mediterranean: formerly a province; famous for medieval poetry and courtly traditions.
  • province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
  • puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
  • pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
  • ranchero — a rancher.
  • re-count — to count again.
  • reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • recensor — someone who produces a recension or recensions
  • recision — an act of canceling or voiding; cancellation.
  • reckoned — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • reckoner — a person who reckons.
  • reconfer — to confer again
  • reconned — reconnaissance.
  • reconvey — to convey again.
  • renforce — to reinforce
  • renotice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
  • renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • replicon — any genetic element that can regulate and effect its own replication from initiation to completion.
  • resorcin — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.
  • retinoic — containing or derived from retinoid
  • rollneck — (of a garment) having a high neck that may be rolled over
  • romancer — a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively): We knew it was a romance, so we were expecting a happy ending. Romance novels are popular escapist entertainment.
  • rondache — a small, round shield
  • scenario — an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
  • schooner — Nautical. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts. See also ketch, topsail schooner, yawl1 (def 2).
  • screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
  • scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
  • secodont — (of animals) having teeth with sharp cutting edges
  • seconded — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
  • secondee — a person who is seconded
  • seconder — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
  • secondly — in the second place; second.
  • seicento — the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
  • sermonic — of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
  • silicone — any of a number of polymers containing alternate silicon and oxygen atoms, as (–Si–O–Si–O–) n, whose properties are determined by the organic groups attached to the silicon atoms, and that are fluid, resinous, rubbery, extremely stable in high temperatures, and water-repellent: used as adhesives, lubricants, and hydraulic oils and in electrical insulation, cosmetics, etc.
  • snow ice — opaque ice formed from partly melted snow or ice; frozen slush.
  • solvency — solvent condition; ability to pay all just debts.
  • sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
  • soricine — of or resembling the shrews.
  • sortance — suitableness
  • stenlock — a coal fish, Merlangus carbonarius
  • stenotic — a narrowing or stricture of a passage or vessel.
  • stonecat — a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
  • sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
  • taconite — a low-grade iron ore, containing about 27 percent iron and 51 percent silica, found as a hard rock formation in the Lake Superior region.
  • technion — (body)   Israel Institute of Technology. Address: Haifa, Israel.
  • technol. — technological
  • tectonic — of or relating to building or construction; constructive; architectural.
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