8-letter words containing o, n, t, r
- crostini — pieces of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- crostino — piece of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
- crotoxin — a toxin in the venom of the North American rattlesnake, Crotalus terrificus.
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crownlet — a small crown
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryotron — a miniature switch working at the temperature of liquid helium and depending for its action on the production and destruction of superconducting properties in the conductor
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- dethrone — If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- digitron — a type of tube, for displaying information, having a common anode and several cathodes shaped in the form of characters, which can be lit by a glow discharge
- dinitro- — (of a chemical) containing two nitrogen groups in place of two hydrogen atoms
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- doctrine — a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
- donatary — the recipient of a donation
- donators — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- donatory — a donee of the king, especially one given the right by the king to property obtained by escheat or forfeit.
- dormient — sleeping; dormant.
- dortmund — a city in W Germany.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- downtrod — tyrannized over; oppressed: the downtrodden plebeians of ancient Rome.
- downturn — an act or instance of turning down or the state of being turned down: the downturn of a lower lip in a permanent pout.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- drink to — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- drypoint — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
- duntroon — a suburb of Canberra: seat of the Royal Military College of Australia
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- edgerton — Harold Eugene ("Doc") 1903–90, U.S. electrical engineer and photographer.
- electron — A stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
- empatron — to treat in the manner of a patron
- en route — on the way
- enforest — to make into a forest
- enormity — The great or extreme scale, seriousness, or extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong.
- enrooted — Simple past tense and past participle of enroot.
- enter on — to begin; set out on; start
- enthrone — Install (a monarch) on a throne, especially during a ceremony to mark the beginning of their rule.
- entoderm — (biology) Alternative form of endoderm.
- entrepot — Alternative spelling of entrepôt.
- entresol — A low story between the first floor and the second floor of a building; a mezzanine floor.
- entropic — Of, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy.
- erection — The action of erecting a structure or object.
- erionite — a common form of zeolite