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

  • softener — Chemistry. any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its softness, smoothness, or plasticity. water softener.
  • songster — a person who sings; a singer.
  • sonorant — a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
  • sonority — the condition or quality of being resonant or sonorous.
  • sorption — the state or process of being sorbed.
  • sorrento — a seaport in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: resort; cathedral; ancient ruins.
  • sortance — suitableness
  • sortment — an assortment or classification
  • southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
  • southron — Southern U.S. southerner (def 2).
  • sporting — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
  • staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
  • stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
  • start on — begin attacking
  • stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
  • sternson — a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
  • stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
  • storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
  • storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
  • stormont — a suburb of Belfast: site of Parliament House (1928–30), formerly the seat of the parliament of Northern Ireland (1922–72) and since 1998 of the Northern Ireland assembly, and Stormont Castle, formerly the residence of the prime minister of Northern Ireland and since 1998 the office of the province's first minister
  • storting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
  • stratton — Charles Sherwood ("General Tom Thumb") 1838–83, U.S. midget who performed in the circus of P. T. Barnum.
  • strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
  • stroking — an act or instance of stroking; a stroking movement.
  • stronger — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • strongly — with great strength or force: wind blowing strongly from the west.
  • strontia — Also called strontium oxide. a white or grayish-white, amorphous powder, SrO, resembling lime in its general character: used chiefly in the manufacture of strontium salts.
  • strontic — of or relating to strontium
  • stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
  • sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
  • sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
  • surmount — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • taganrog — a seaport in the S Russian Federation in Europe, on the Gulf of Taganrog.
  • taileron — an aileron located on the tailplane of an aircraft
  • tainaron — Cape, a cape in the Ionian Sea, S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.
  • tamanoir — a large anteater of Central and South America, Myrmecophaga tridactyla
  • tandoori — baked or cooked in a tandoor: tandoori chicken.
  • taormina — a resort commune in Messina, in E Sicily, Italy: Roman remains.
  • tarnopol — Ternopol.
  • tarragon — an Old World plant, Artemisia dracunculus, having aromatic leaves used for seasoning.
  • teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
  • teletron — a system for showing enlarged televisual images in sports stadiums
  • tenebrio — a type of small mealworm
  • tenorist — a person who sings tenor.
  • tenorite — a mineral, cupric oxide, CuO, occurring in veins of copper in black, minute scales.
  • tenoroon — a woodwind instrument which is a cross between a tenor bassoon and an oboe
  • ternopol — a city in W Ukraine: formerly in Poland.
  • tetragon — a polygon having four angles or sides; a quadrangle or quadrilateral.
  • tetraxon — a four-pointed spicule
  • tetronal — a sedative drug
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