8-letter words containing n, o, u, i, s
- favonius — the ancient Roman personification of the west wind.
- fluxions — (obsolete, mathematics) differential calculus.
- focusing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fungoids — Plural form of fungoid.
- fusional — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- geminous — found in pairs
- ginhouse — a building in which cotton is ginned
- glucosin — any of a class of compounds, some of which are highly toxic, derived from reactions of glucose with ammonia.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- idoneous — appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
- illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- impounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impound.
- in focus — seen clearly
- in-house — company: internal
- inbounds — Sports. being within the boundaries of a court or field.
- inconnus — Plural form of inconnu.
- incubous — (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infusion — the act or process of infusing.
- insomuch — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- insuloma — a benign tumor of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas that may produce signs of hypoglycemia.
- insulous — Abounding in islands.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- isoquant — (economics) A line of equal or constant economic production on a graph, chart or map.
- jonquils — Plural form of jonquil.
- journies — Plural form of journy.
- jousting — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- laminous — laminate; laminose.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- ligneous — of the nature of or resembling wood; woody.
- limousin — a former province in central France.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- longinus — Dionysius Cassius [kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- missound — to sound or pronounce wrongly
- misunion — A bad or wrong union or alliance.
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- mounties — Plural form of mountie.
- mousekin — a little mouse