8-letter words containing o, n, e, u
- linoleum — a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
- longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
- loudened — Simple past tense and past participle of louden.
- loudness — (of sound) strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers.
- loungers — Plural form of lounger.
- luncheon — lunch, especially a formal lunch held in connection with a meeting or other special occasion: the alumni luncheon.
- lungeous — (of a person) violent; rough.
- luteolin — a yellow coloring substance, C 15 H 10 O 6 , obtained from the weed Reseda luteola: used in dyeing silk and, formerly, in medicine.
- manouver — Misspelling of maneuver.
- manouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- miquelon — St. Pierre and Miquelon.
- mole run — any part of a system of underground tunnels, rooms, etc, prepared for use in the event of nuclear war
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
- mon dieu — my God
- monocule — (zoology) A small crustacean with one median eye.
- monofuel — a fuel that is made up of a single constituent and has nothing added to it
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- monument — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- moulinet — a portable pulley device for bending crossbow or turning the drum of a crane
- moulmein — a seaport in S Burma at the mouth of the Salween River.
- mounties — Plural form of mountie.
- mourners — Plural form of mourner.
- mousekin — a little mouse
- mu meson — (no longer in technical use) muon.
- mudstone — a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- nanotube — A cylindrical molecule of a fullerene.
- nauseous — affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- nebulose — cloudlike; nebulous.
- nebulous — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
- nemorous — (rare) Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
- neuraxon — axon.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- neuronal — Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
- neurones — Plural form of neurone.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- neurosal — of or relating to neurosis; afflicted by a neurosis
- neuroses — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.