8-letter words containing n, o, r
- estragon — Tarragon.
- estrogen — Any of a group of steroid hormones that promote the development and maintenance of female characteristics of the body. Such hormones are also produced artificially for use in oral contraceptives or to treat menopausal and menstrual disorders.
- etherion — a gas formerly believed to exist in air
- eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
- euroland — also Eurozone
- euronext — a European stock exchange formed by the amalgamation of the Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam bourses
- euronote — a form of euro-commercial paper consisting of short-term negotiable bearer notes
- european — geography
- eurozone — The group of European Union nations whose national currency is the euro.
- eversion — An act of turning inside out.
- everyone — Every person.
- exertion — Physical or mental effort.
- exocrine — Relating to or denoting glands that secrete their products through ducts opening onto an epithelium rather than directly into the bloodstream.
- exoneree — One who is exonerated.
- extensor — A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.
- f region — the ionospheric region in which the F layer forms.
- fairborn — a city in W Ohio, near Dayton.
- fairmont — a city in W West Virginia.
- falconer — a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- fan roof — a vaulted roof having fan tracery.
- fan worm — feather-duster worm.
- fanfaron — a braggart.
- far gone — departed; left.
- far-gone — remote.
- farinose — yielding farina.
- farnesol — a colorless, unsaturated, liquid alcohol, C 15 H 26 O, having a slight floral odor, extracted from the flowers of the acacia, cassia oil, or the like: used in perfumery.
- favoring — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- fear not — You say 'fear not' or 'never fear' to someone when you are telling them not to worry or be frightened.
- feedhorn — a part of a satellite dish that collects the signal reflected from the main surface reflector and channels it into a low-noise amplifier.
- fencerow — the uncultivated land on each side of and below a fence.
- ferguson — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- fermions — Plural form of fermion.
- fibrino- — fibrin
- fipronil — A broad-spectrum insecticide that disrupts the insect's central nervous system.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flatiron — a nonelectric iron with a flat bottom, heated for use in pressing clothes, cloth, etc.
- flooring — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- floorman — a floor manager.
- florence — Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
- florican — any of various smaller species of bustards.
- florigen — a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flouring — Present participle of flour.
- fluorene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 13 H 10 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and dyes.
- fluorian — (geology) containing fluorine.
- fluorine — the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.
- foghorns — Plural form of foghorn.
- fomenter — One who incites or promotes.
- fomorian — one of a race of pirates or sea demons who raided and pillaged Ireland but were finally defeated: sometimes associated with the hostile powers of nature.