8-letter words containing o, n, s, i
- indorser — Alternative form of endorser.
- indorses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indorse.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infernos — Plural form of inferno.
- infoseek — (company) A company providing InfoSeek Net Search, a free web search service which, in August 1995, indexed the full text of over 400,000 web pages. Net Search was rated as the fourth most popular site on the web by Interactive Age magazine. The also sell a commercial service, InfoSeek Search, that offers access to all the Usenet news groups, daily newswires, business and computer periodicals, and more.
- infusion — the act or process of infusing.
- inhesion — the state or fact of inhering; inherence.
- inkblots — Plural form of inkblot.
- inkhorns — Plural form of inkhorn.
- inkstone — a slab of stone used in Chinese calligraphy and painting to grind dry ink and mix it with water.
- inositol — Biochemistry. a compound, C 6 H 12 O 6 , derivative of cyclohexane, widely distributed in plants and seeds as phytin, and occurring in animal tissue and in urine: an essential growth factor for animal life, present in the vitamin B complex.
- insconce — Alternative spelling of ensconce.
- inscroll — enscroll.
- insition — The insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.
- insolate — to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- insolent — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
- insomnia — inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.
- insomuch — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- insonify — (transitive) To flood an area or an an object with carefully-controlled sound waves, typically as a part of sonar or ultrasound imaging.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- 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.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- introits — Plural form of introit.
- introrse — turned or facing inward, as anthers that open toward the gynoecium.
- invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- investor — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invitors — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- invoices — Plural form of invoice.
- invokers — Plural form of invoker.
- involves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of involve.
- iodopsin — a photosensitive violet pigment that occurs in the cones of the retina and is transformed by light into retinal and an opsin protein.
- ionising — (British) alternative spelling of ionizing.
- ionizers — Plural form of ionizer.
- ironness — Quality of being iron.
- ironside — ("Ironside") a.d. c980–1016, English king 1016: defeated by Canute.
- irrision — (obsolete) The act of laughing at another; derision.
- isangoma — Alternative form of sangoma.
- isanomal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal anomaly of a meteorological quantity.
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- isobront — a line on a weather map or chart connecting various points where a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- isocline — a fold of strata so tightly compressed that both limbs dip in the same direction.
- isocolon — a figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structure formed by the use of two or more clauses, or cola, of similar length, as “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”.
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.
- isodicon — (in the Greek Orthodox Church) a short anthem performed while the Gospel is being carried into a church
- isodomon — (in Greek history) masonry formed of uniform blocks, with courses of equal height
- isogenic — (of organisms) having the same or closely similar genotypes.
- isogonal — equiangular; isogonic.