8-letter words containing n, o, c, t, i
- eviction — The action of expelling someone, especially a tenant, from a property; expulsion.
- exaction — The action of demanding and obtaining something from someone, especially a payment or service.
- excitons — Plural form of exciton.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- fictions — Plural form of fiction.
- flection — the act of bending.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- gerontic — geriatric.
- gnostics — Plural form of gnostic.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- icestone — a rare crystalline mineral also known as cryolite
- ignostic — One who holds to ignosticism.
- in stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- inaction — absence of action; idleness.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- incoterm — Alternative case form of Incoterm.
- indictor — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- infotech — Information technology.
- injector — a person or thing that injects.
- innocent — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- intercom — an intercommunication system.
- intonaco — (formerly in fresco painting) the last and finest coat of plaster, usually applied in sections and painted while still damp with colors ground in water or a lime-water mixture.
- invocate — invoke.
- ionicity — (uncountable) The condition of being ionic.
- isotonic — Also, isosmotic. Physical Chemistry. noting or pertaining to solutions characterized by equal osmotic pressure. Compare hypertonic (def 2), hypotonic (def 2).
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- lactonic — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- lections — Plural form of lection.
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- linstock — a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- miltonic — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monistic — Philosophy. (in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a). (in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- myotonic — Of or pertaining to myotonia.
- 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.