8-letter words containing o, n, t, u
- gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- gone out — blank and without comprehension, as if stupefied in surprise
- gonoduct — a duct leading from a gonad to the exterior, through which gametes pass
- gourmont — Remy de [ruh-mee duh] /rəˈmi də/ (Show IPA), 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- gunpoint — the point or aim of a gun.
- gunshots — Plural form of gunshot.
- gunstock — the stock or support in which the barrel of a shoulder weapon is fixed.
- gunstone — (obsolete) A cannonball.
- gustnado — A strong whirlwind at the leading edge of a storm front or squall line.
- hagueton — acton.
- hand out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handouts — Plural form of handout.
- hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangouts — Plural form of hangout.
- hanotaux — (Albert Auguste) Gabriel [al-ber oh-gyst ga-bree-el] /alˈbɛr oʊˈgüst ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1853–1944, French statesman and historian.
- hereunto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- hit upon — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hornpout — horned pout.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- houghton — Henry Oscar, 1823–95, U.S. publisher.
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- huguenot — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hum tone — a note produced by a bell when struck, lying an octave or (in many English bells) a sixth or seventh below the strike tone
- hunt box — a hunting lodge or house near or in a hunting area for use during the hunting season.
- hunt out — track down, locate
- in doubt — uncertain
- in touch — If you get in touch with someone, you contact them by writing to them or telephoning them. If you are, keep, or stay in touch with them, you write, phone, or visit each other regularly.
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- indevout — not devout; lacking religious devotion; irreligious
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- involute — intricate; complex.
- iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- isoquant — (economics) A line of equal or constant economic production on a graph, chart or map.
- jelutong — a tree, Dyera costulata, of the Malay Peninsula, from which a resinous latex is obtained.
- job hunt — search for employment
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- jousting — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- just now — a moment ago
- knockout — Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
- kola nut — a brownish seed, about the size of a chestnut, produced by a tropical tree belonging to the genus Cola, containing both caffeine and theobromine: its extract is used in soft drinks.