8-letter words containing n, o, r, t
- interior — being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- interrow — occurring or existing between rows
- inthrone — enthrone.
- intorted — twisted inwardly about an axis or fixed point; curled; wound: intorted horns.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- introits — Plural form of introit.
- intromit — to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- introrse — turned or facing inward, as anthers that open toward the gynoecium.
- inventor — a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
- invertor — any muscle that turns a limb or part inward.
- investor — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invitors — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- isobront — a line on a weather map or chart connecting various points where a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
- janitors — Plural form of janitor.
- jetborne — carried by jet aircraft.
- jointers — Plural form of jointer.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- karyotin — chromatin
- kenotron — a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier, for example in circuits of X-ray tubes
- keynoter — a person who delivers a keynote address.
- klystron — An electron tube that generates or amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation.
- knotroot — Chinese artichoke.
- knotwork — A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes resembling a knot.
- labornet — An IGC network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human rights and economic justice of workers. Issues covered include workplace and community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
- lanthorn — lantern.
- later on — a comparative of late: Her later years were not happy.
- le nôtre — André (ɑ̃dre). 1613–1700, French landscape gardener, who created the gardens at Versailles for Louis XIV
- letronne — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (100 km) in diameter.
- link rot — (web) The process by which links on a web page became unusable as the pages they point to change location or are removed.
- longterm — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- lorestan — Luristan.
- losartan — An angiotensin receptor antagonist that shows antihypertensive activity.
- low rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- low-rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- mandator — a person who gives a mandate.
- marathon — a plain in SE Greece, in Attica: the Athenians defeated the Persians here 490 b.c.
- marmiton — A chef's assistant, kitchen boy.
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- martagon — A Eurasian lily.
- martinon — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
- matronly — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a matron; maturely dignified; stately.
- mentmore — a mansion in Mentmore in Buckinghamshire: built by Sir Joseph Paxton in the 19th century for the Rothschild family; now owned by the Maharishi University of Natural Law