8-letter words containing o, r, t, s
- jousters — Plural form of jouster.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- klystron — An electron tube that generates or amplifies microwaves by velocity modulation.
- koestler — Arthur, 1905–83, British novelist, critic, and journalist; born in Hungary.
- kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
- kurtoses — Plural form of kurtosis.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- laborist — A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
- leotards — A close-fitting one-piece garment, made of a stretchy fabric, which covers a person's body from the shoulders to the top of the thighs and typically the arms, worn by dancers or people exercising indoors.
- levators — Plural form of levator.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- literose — affectedly literary
- loadstar — a star that shows the way.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- lobsters — Plural form of lobster.
- locators — Plural form of locator.
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.
- looters' — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- lorestan — Luristan.
- losartan — An angiotensin receptor antagonist that shows antihypertensive activity.
- lustrous — having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
- lustwort — The sundew.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- maestros — Plural form of maestro.
- marmoset — any of several small, squirrellike, South and Central American monkeys of the genera Callithrix, Leontocebus, etc., having soft fur and a long, nonprehensile tail: some species are endangered.
- marsport — a spoilsport
- masorete — one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- matadors — Plural form of matador.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- mesotron — (no longer in technical use) meson.
- midstory — the layer of vegetation in a forest that consists of those trees whose height is in between the heights of the smallest and tallest trees
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- miswrote — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- mobsters — Plural form of mobster.
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- molester — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- monastir — Bitola
- monitors — Plural form of monitor.
- monstera — any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- monsters — Plural form of monster.
- monstery — Resembling a monster.
- montrose — James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- moralist — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- mordants — Plural form of mordant.
- mordents — Plural form of mordent.
- morosity — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- mortised — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- mortises — Plural form of mortise.