8-letter words containing n, o, r, t
- mentored — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- mentoree — One being mentored.
- mesotron — (no longer in technical use) meson.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- minatory — menacing; threatening.
- miniator — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- minorite — Friar Minor.
- minority — the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- mirliton — kazoo.
- monastir — Bitola
- monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- monitors — Plural form of monitor.
- monitory — serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
- monitrix — (archaic) A female monitor; a monitress.
- monocrat — a person favoring monocracy.
- monstera — any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- monsters — Plural form of monster.
- monstery — Resembling a monster.
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- monterey — a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montfort — Simon de [see-mawn duh] /siˈmɔ̃ də/ (Show IPA), c1160–1218, French leader of the crusade against the Albigenses.
- montreal — a seaport in S Quebec, in E Canada, on an island (Montreal Island) in the St. Lawrence.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- montrose — James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- moon rat — a ratlike SE Asian nocturnal mammal, Echinosorex gymnurus, with greyish fur and an elongated snout: family Erinaceidae (hedgehogs): the largest living insectivore
- moonport — a place from which flights leave for the moon
- moonwort — any fern of the genus Botrychium, especially B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets.
- mordants — Plural form of mordant.
- mordents — Plural form of mordent.
- moronity — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- mortling — wool obtained from dead sheep.
- mortmain — the condition of lands or tenements held without right of alienation, as by an ecclesiastical corporation; inalienable ownership.
- motioner — One who makes a motion; a mover.
- motoring — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- motorman — a person who operates or drives an electrically operated vehicle, as a streetcar or subway train.
- motormen — Plural form of motorman.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
- narrator — a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
- natatory — pertaining to, adapted for, or characterized by swimming: natatorial birds.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- necrotic — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- neoteric — modern; new; recent.
- net cord — a cord that passes along and supports the top of a tennis net
- netrebko — Anna. born 1971, Russian operatic soprano