8-letter words containing n, o, i, r
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- homering — Present participle of homer.
- honoring — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- horatian — of or relating to Horace.
- horizons — Plural form of horizon.
- hormonic — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- hornbill — any large bird of the family Bucerotidae, of the Old World tropics, characterized by a very large bill usually surmounted by a horny protuberance.
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- hornlike — Projecting like a horn.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- hovering — Present participle of hover.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hydronic — of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
- ignitron — a cathode-arc vacuum tube with an auxiliary electrode projecting into a pool of mercury: it conducts current when the anode is positive.
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- ignorers — Plural form of ignorer.
- ignoring — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- in a row — lined up
- in color — image: full colour
- in error — by mistake
- in favor — in agreement
- in force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- in front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- in irons — wearing shackles
- in order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- in power — in authority
- in short — having little length; not long.
- in sport — in joke or jest; not in earnest
- in store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- in vitro — a specialized technique by which an ovum, especially a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- in-store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- in-world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- inboards — Plural form of inboard.
- incensor — an incense burner; censer
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- incisors — any of the four anterior teeth in each jaw, used for cutting and gnawing.
- incisory — adapted for cutting, as the incisor teeth.
- incloser — Archaic form of encloser.
- incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
- incomers — Plural form of incomer.