8-letter words containing n, o
- attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
- aubusson — a town in central France, in the Creuse department: a centre for flat-woven carpets and for tapestries since the 16th century. Pop: 4662 (1999)
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- audioone — (tool, music) Digital recording and editing software developed by BizTrack Software Development for the dance, music, and audio industries. AudioOne includes a waveform recorder that allows signal manipulation, editing, and recording.
- audition — An audition is a short performance given by an actor, dancer, or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play, film, or orchestra.
- aunthood — the state of being, or relationship of, aunt
- aureolin — a pigment used in painting, consisting of potassium cobaltinitrite and characterized by its brilliant yellow hue, transparency, and permanence.
- aurorean — of or resembling dawn
- ausonius — Decimus Magnus (ˈdɛsɪməs ˈmæɡnəs). ?310–?395 ad, Latin poet, born in Gaul
- autobahn — An autobahn is a German motorway.
- autobank — a machine offering cash and other banking services
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autonymy — The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
- autotune — a software package that automatically manipulates a recording of a vocal track until it is in tune regardless of whether or not the original performance was in tune
- avenzoar — 1091?–1162, Arab physician and writer in Spain: founder of Almohad dynasty.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aviation — Aviation is the operation and production of aircraft.
- avionics — Avionics is the science of electronics used in aviation.
- avoidant — (of behaviour) demonstrating a tendency to avoid intimacy or interaction with others
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- avoision — the non-payment of tax which cannot be classified as either avoidance or evasion
- avowance — (obsolete) Act of avowing; avowal.
- avulsion — a forcible tearing away or separation of a bodily structure or part, either as the result of injury or as an intentional surgical procedure
- axonemal — of or relating to the axoneme
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- b-boying — a style of acrobatic dancing that combines intricate footwork with spinning and tumbling, usually to funk or hip-hop music.
- babycino — a drink of frothy milk with a chocolate topping, designed as an alternative to coffee for young children
- backbond — a legal document qualifying the terms of a bond or explaining the purpose for which a bond has been granted
- backbone — Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position
- baclofen — a muscle-relaxing drug used to treat muscle spasms
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- baconian — of or relating to Francis Bacon, the philosopher, or to his inductive method of reasoning
- baconism — of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.
- bacronym — Alternative spelling of backronym.
- badalona — a port in NE Spain: an industrial suburb of Barcelona. Pop: 214 440 (2003 est)
- badigeon — a composition for patching surface defects in carpentry or masonry.
- bagwoman — a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.
- baikonur — a launching site for spacecraft in central Kazakhstan; formerly the centre for the Soviet space programme, now leased from Kazakhstan by Russia
- bailbond — a document in which a prisoner and one or more sureties guarantee that the prisoner will attend the court hearing of the charge against him if he is released on bail
- balafons — Plural form of balafon.
- balanoid — shaped like an acorn.
- balconet — a small ornamental balcony which does not extend far beyond the window, essentially a guardrail
- ballgown — A ballgown is a long dress that women wear to formal dances.
- ballonet — an air or gas compartment in a balloon or nonrigid airship, used to control buoyancy and shape
- ballonne — a bouncing step in dancing, esp in ballet
- balloons — a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.