8-letter words containing n, o, r
- 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.
- invokers — Plural form of invoker.
- involver — Someone or something that involves.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- ionizers — Plural form of ionizer.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- irenicon — A proposition, scheme, or treatise designed to promote peace, especially in the church.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- iron box — [Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced. May include a modified shell restricting the cracker's movements in unobvious ways, and "bait" files designed to keep him interested and logged on. See also back door, firewall machine, Venus flytrap, and Clifford Stoll's account in "The Cuckoo's Egg" of how he made and used one. Compare padded cell.
- iron man — Calvin Edward, Jr ("Cal"; "Iron Man") born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
- iron ore — rock mined for iron
- 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.
- iron pan — a hard layer of precipitated iron salts often found below the surface of sands and gravels
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- ironclad — covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.
- ironical — pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery: an ironical compliment; an ironical smile.
- ironized — Simple past tense and past participle of ironize.
- ironlike — Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
- ironness — Quality of being iron.
- ironside — ("Ironside") a.d. c980–1016, English king 1016: defeated by Canute.
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- ironweed — any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.
- ironwood — any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
- ironwork — work in iron.
- irrision — (obsolete) The act of laughing at another; derision.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- isobront — a line on a weather map or chart connecting various points where a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- isoprene — a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.
- janiform — Janus-faced.
- janitors — Plural form of janitor.
- jargoned — Simple past tense and past participle of jargon.
- jargonel — a type of pear that ripens early
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- jetborne — carried by jet aircraft.
- joinders — Plural form of joinder.
- 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.