8-letter words containing n, o, r, t
- gerontic — geriatric.
- geronto- — indicating old age
- go-train — a lightweight passenger train providing rapid surface transport between a city center and the suburbs and from suburb to suburb.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- gongster — a person who strikes a gong
- gourmont — Remy de [ruh-mee duh] /rəˈmi də/ (Show IPA), 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.
- grantors — Plural form of grantor.
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- great on — enthusiastic about
- groaneth — Archaic third-person singular form of groan.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hawthorn — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.
- henroost — A place used by hens for roosting.
- hereinto — into this place.
- hereunto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- honester — Comparative form of honest.
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- horatian — of or relating to Horace.
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- hornpout — horned pout.
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hornwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, found in ponds and slow streams.
- hortense — a female given name.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- 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.
- in front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- 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-store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- incoterm — Alternative case form of Incoterm.
- indentor — to form deep recesses in: The sea indents the coast.
- 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.
- inertion — Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- injector — a person or thing that injects.
- inornate — Not ornate.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- intercom — an intercommunication system.