8-letter words containing o, n, i, u
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- gumphion — a funeral banner
- gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- gunpoint — the point or aim of a gun.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- hit upon — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- houghing — Scot. hock1 (defs 1, 2).
- hounding — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- 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
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- icebound — held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
- 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 doubt — uncertain
- in focus — seen clearly
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- in vacuo — in a vacuum.
- in vogue — fashionable
- in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- in-house — company: internal
- inbounds — Sports. being within the boundaries of a court or field.
- inconnue — an unknown woman
- inconnus — Plural form of inconnu.
- incubous — (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- indevout — not devout; lacking religious devotion; irreligious
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infodump — Alternative spelling of info-dump.
- infusion — the act or process of infusing.
- inground — sunk into the ground; built into the ground
- inguino- — inguinal and
- innuendo — an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.
- inoculum — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- 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.
- involute — intricate; complex.
- 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.