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8-letter words containing n, o, i, r

  • atropine — a poisonous alkaloid obtained from deadly nightshade, having an inhibitory action on the autonomic nervous system. It is used medicinally in pre-anaesthetic medication, to speed a slow heart rate, and as an emergency first-aid counter to exposure to chemical warfare nerve agents. Formula: C17H23NO3
  • aureolin — a pigment used in painting, consisting of potassium cobaltinitrite and characterized by its brilliant yellow hue, transparency, and permanence.
  • aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
  • baikonur — a launching site for spacecraft in central Kazakhstan; formerly the centre for the Soviet space programme, now leased from Kazakhstan by Russia
  • baritone — In music, a baritone is a man with a fairly deep singing voice that is lower than that of a tenor but higher than that of a bass.
  • baronial — If you describe a house or room as baronial, you mean that it is large, impressive, and old-fashioned in appearance, and looks as if it belongs to someone from the upper classes.
  • baronies — Plural form of barony.
  • baronize — to make or create (someone) a baron; confer the rank of baron upon.
  • baryonic — of or relating to a baryon
  • benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
  • big iron — (jargon)   (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
  • binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
  • birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
  • blogring — a group of blogs joined in a ring
  • blowiron — blowpipe (def 2).
  • boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
  • bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
  • borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
  • boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
  • bornitic — of or relating to bornite
  • borodino — a village in E central Russia, about 110 km (70 miles) west of Moscow: scene of a battle (1812) in which Napoleon defeated the Russians but irreparably weakened his army
  • bow-iron — (on the car of a sidewalk elevator) a metal arch for parting the cellar doors as the elevator rises.
  • box iron — a flatiron that is heated by inserting live coals or a piece of hot metal in its boxlike holder.
  • braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
  • brainbow — the result of a process by which the individual neurons of a brain can be mapped with fluorescent proteins under a light source
  • brainbox — the skull
  • brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
  • bring on — If something brings on an illness, pain, or feeling, especially one that you often suffer from, it causes you to have it.
  • bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • broiling — If the weather is broiling, it is very hot.
  • bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions
  • bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
  • brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
  • bronxite — a cocktail of gin, sweet and dry vermouth, and orange juice.
  • bronzify — to make into bronze
  • bronzing — blue pigment producing a metallic lustre when ground into paint media at fairly high concentrations
  • bronzino — Il, real name Agnolo di Cosimo. 1503–72, Florentine mannerist painter
  • bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
  • brooding — Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
  • brooming — an implement for sweeping, consisting of a brush of straw or stiff strands of synthetic material bound tightly to the end of a long handle.
  • browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
  • brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
  • brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
  • browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
  • bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
  • byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
  • c ration — a canned ration used in the field in WWII
  • cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
  • canotier — a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.
  • cantoris — (in antiphonal music) to be sung by the cantorial side of a choir
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