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6-letter words containing o, n, s, i

  • onside — (of a player, especially in soccer or hockey) occupying a position on the field where playing the ball or puck is allowed; not offside.
  • onsite — accomplished or located at the site of a particular activity or concern: on-site medical treatment for accident victims.
  • onyxis — an ingrowing of a fingernail or toenail.
  • opines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opine.
  • orison — a prayer.
  • orsini — an Italian aristocratic family that was prominent in Rome from the 12th to the 18th century
  • oscine — of, belonging to, or pertaining to the suborder Oscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the songbirds that have highly developed vocal organs.
  • ossein — the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
  • ossian — a legendary hero and poet and son of Finn, who is supposed to have lived during the 3rd century a.d., represented in Gaelic poems and in imitations of them written by James Macpherson in the 18th century.
  • outsin — to sin more than
  • pilons — something extra; lagniappe.
  • piniós — river in Thessaly, E Greece, flowing eastward to the Gulf of Salonika: 125 mi (201 km)
  • pisano — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), c1270–c1348, Italian sculptor.
  • piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • points — the two electrical contacts that make or break the current flow in the distributor of an internal-combustion engine
  • poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
  • posing — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
  • prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
  • quoins — an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
  • rosina — a female given name, Italian form of Rose.
  • sagoin — a South American monkey
  • saigon — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
  • senior — older or elder (designating the older of two men bearing the same name, as a father whose son is named after him, often written as Sr. or sr. following the name): I'd like to speak with the senior Mr. Hansen, please. I'm privileged to introduce Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Sr. Compare junior (def 1).
  • shinto — Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
  • siabon — a hybrid animal bred from a gibbon and a siamang.
  • sialon — a very strong, corrosion-resistant ceramic used in the chemical industry
  • sicyon — an ancient city in S Greece, near Corinth.
  • sifnos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).
  • signor — a conventional Italian term of address or title of respect for a man, either used separately or prefixed to the name. Abbreviation: Sig., sig.
  • silone — Ignazio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] /iˈnyɑ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Secondo Tranquilli) 1900–78, Italian author.
  • simeon — a son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:33.
  • simone — (language)   A simulation language by A. Hoare et al. based on Pascal.
  • simony — the making of profit out of sacred things.
  • sindon — cloth of fine linen or silk, used especially for shrouds.
  • sinope — a natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
  • siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
  • siphon — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • sit on — to rest with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs; be seated.
  • soigne — carefully or elegantly done, operated, or designed.
  • soling — the bottom or under surface of the foot.
  • solion — Chemistry, Electricity. a low-frequency amplifying device that operates by controlling the flow of ions in solution: some types, as the micropump, accomplish this by means of electro-osmotic pressure.
  • somni- — sleep
  • somoni — the standard monetary unit of Tajikistan, consisting of 100 dirams
  • soneri — an Indian cloth of gold
  • sonics — the branch of science that deals with the practical applications of sound.
  • sonsie — strong and healthy; robust.
  • soring — the practice of making the front feet of a show horse sore, as by bruising or blistering, so as to force it to take high, exaggerated steps in exhibitions
  • sowing — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
  • spinor — a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
  • spinto — having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element: a spinto soprano voice.
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