8-letter words containing o, r, n, i, t
- horntail — any of various wasplike insects of the family Siricidae, the females of which have a hornlike ovipositor.
- hotliner — a person who speaks to callers on a telephone hot line.
- ignitron — a cathode-arc vacuum tube with an auxiliary electrode projecting into a pool of mercury: it conducts current when the anode is positive.
- ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- in front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- in short — having little length; not long.
- in sport — in joke or jest; not in earnest
- in store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- in vitro — a specialized technique by which an ovum, especially a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation.
- in-store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- inceptor — to take in; ingest.
- incoterm — Alternative case form of Incoterm.
- indentor — to form deep recesses in: The sea indents the coast.
- indictor — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- inertion — Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude.
- infector — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- injector — a person or thing that injects.
- inornate — Not ornate.
- instroke — a stroke traveling in an inward direction.
- intercom — an intercommunication system.
- interior — being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- interrow — occurring or existing between rows
- inthrone — enthrone.
- intorted — twisted inwardly about an axis or fixed point; curled; wound: intorted horns.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- introits — Plural form of introit.
- intromit — to send, put, or let in; introduce; admit.
- introrse — turned or facing inward, as anthers that open toward the gynoecium.
- inventor — a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
- invertor — any muscle that turns a limb or part inward.
- investor — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invitors — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- 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.
- isobront — a line on a weather map or chart connecting various points where a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
- janitors — Plural form of janitor.
- jointers — Plural form of jointer.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- karyotin — chromatin
- link rot — (web) The process by which links on a web page became unusable as the pages they point to change location or are removed.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- marmiton — A chef's assistant, kitchen boy.