8-letter words containing o, n, t, u
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
- southron — Southern U.S. southerner (def 2).
- spin out — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin-out — the spinning out of control into a rotating skid of a car or other vehicle.
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- st.-ouen — a suburb of Paris in N France.
- standout — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stannous — containing tin, especially in the bivalent state.
- staunton — a city in N Virginia.
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- stuck on — simple past tense and past participle of stick2 .
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- sub-note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- sudation — sweating; sweat
- sunspots — one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena.
- sunstone — a reddish variety of oligoclase feldspar, used as a gem, having a red and bright-yellow play of color.
- surmount — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- tautonym — a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).
- teutones — the members of an ancient people, variously thought to have spoken a Germanic or a Celtic language, that lived north of the Elbe in Jutland
- teutonic — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thankyou — If you refer to something as a thankyou for what someone has done for you, you mean that it is intended as a way of thanking them.
- thin out — diminish, dissipate
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thousand — a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
- thurmond — (James) Strom [strom] /strɒm/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, U.S. politician.
- thurston — a male given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “Thor's stone.”.
- titanous — containing trivalent titanium.
- tithonus — the son of Laomedon of Troy who was loved by the goddess Eos. She asked that he be made immortal but forgot to ask that he be made eternally young. When he aged, she turned him into a grasshopper
- tomentum — pubescence consisting of longish, soft, entangled hairs pressed close to the surface.
- tonguing — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- tongzhou — former name of Nantong.
- tonneaux — a rear part or compartment of an automobile body, containing seats for passengers.
- torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- toucanet — any of several small South and Central American toucans, especially of the genus Aulacorhynchus.
- touch on — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tourneur — Cyril, 1575?–1626, English dramatist.
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- tournure — an outline or contour
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- trigonum — trigone.
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- trunnion — either of the two cylindrical projections on a cannon, one on each side for supporting the cannon on its carriage.