8-letter words containing o, n, s, i
- ghosting — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- ginhouse — a building in which cotton is ginned
- ginkgoes — Plural form of ginkgo.
- gisborne — a seaport on E North Island, in N New Zealand.
- glossina — tsetse fly.
- glossing — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- glucosin — any of a class of compounds, some of which are highly toxic, derived from reactions of glucose with ammonia.
- gnostics — Plural form of gnostic.
- goatskin — the skin or hide of a goat.
- gonaives — Gulf of, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, between the two peninsulas of W Haiti.
- gooiness — the quality of being gooey
- goriness — covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- goslings — Plural form of gosling.
- gospodin — a title of respect corresponding to Mr.
- grierson — John. 1898–1972, Scottish film director. He coined the noun documentary, of which genre his Industrial Britain (1931) and Song of Ceylon (1934) are notable examples
- griffons — Plural form of griffon.
- grissino — Italian breadstick
- grossing — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- harrison — Benjamin, 1726?–91, American political leader (father of William Henry Harrison).
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hedonist — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- helicons — Plural form of helicon.
- hellions — Plural form of hellion.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- hispano- — Hispanic
- histogen — a region in a plant in which tissues differentiate.
- histones — Plural form of histone.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- hocusing — Present participle of hocus.
- hoisting — to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
- hoistman — someone who operates a hoist
- hokiness — The state or condition of being hoky.
- hokinson — Helen, c1900–49, U.S. cartoonist.
- holdings — An area of land held by lease.
- holiness — the quality or state of being holy; sanctity.
- holstein — Also called Holstein-Friesian [hohl-stahyn-free-zhuh n, -steen-] /ˈhoʊl staɪnˈfri ʒən, -stin-/ (Show IPA). one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- hominess — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominids — any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors.
- hominins — Plural form of hominin.
- honestie — Archaic spelling of honesty.