8-letter words containing o, n, s, i
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- doziness — The state of being dozy.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- dysgonic — growing poorly on artificial media, as certain bacteria (opposed to eugonic).
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystonic — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- ebionism — the teaching upheld by the Ebionites that said that Jesus was a mortal human being, that Christians should adhere to Jewish law and that absence of wealth was a preferred religious quality
- eclosion — the emergence of an adult insect from its pupal case.
- editions — Plural form of edition.
- effusion — the act of effusing or pouring forth.
- egestion — the process of egesting; the voiding of the refuse of digestion.
- eidolons — Plural form of eidolon.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- elisions — Plural form of elision.
- elsinore — Helsingør
- emersion — The process or state of emerging from or being out of water after being submerged.
- emission — The production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation.
- emotions — Plural form of emotion.
- empoison — (obsolete) poison.
- emulsion — A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.
- enations — Plural form of enation.
- enginous — ingenious or clever
- ensiform — Shaped like a sword blade; long and narrow with sharp edges and a pointed tip.
- environs — The surrounding area or district.
- envision — Imagine as a future possibility; visualize.
- epinosic — unhealthy
- episemon — an emblem
- epsilons — Plural form of epsilon.
- epsimone — Concurrent simulation language derived from Simone. "EPSIMONE Manual", J. Beziin et al, Pub Int No 90, IRISA, Sept 1978.
- ericsson — John1803-89; U.S. naval engineer & inventor, born in Sweden: builder of the Monitor
- eriksson — Sven-Goran (ˈsfɛnˈɡɜːrən). born 1948, Swedish football manager; honours as a club manager include the UEFA Cup (1982) with Gothenburg, three Portuguese league titles with Benfica (1983, 1984, 1990), and the Italian league with Lazio (2000); head coach of the England national team (2001–06)
- erosions — Plural form of erosion.
- essoiner — a person who essoins
- essonite — a dark-brown kind of garnet
- esthonia — Estonia
- estonian — of Estonia
- evasions — Plural form of evasion.
- eversion — An act of turning inside out.
- evulsion — (now rare) The action of forcibly pulling something out.
- excision — The deletion of some text during editing.
- excitons — Plural form of exciton.