8-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- journall — Obsolete form of journal.
- journals — Plural form of journal.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- journies — Plural form of journy.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- languour — Alternative spelling of languor.
- long run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- long-run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
- loungers — Plural form of lounger.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manouver — Misspelling of maneuver.
- manouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- mole run — any part of a system of underground tunnels, rooms, etc, prepared for use in the event of nuclear war
- monaural — monophonic (def 2).
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- moorburn — the practice of burning off old growth on a heather moor to encourage new growth for grazing
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- mourners — Plural form of mourner.
- mournful — Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- narquois — mocking, malicious, or snide
- nemorous — (rare) Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
- neuraxon — axon.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- neuronal — Cell Biology. a specialized, impulse-conducting cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system, consisting of the cell body and its processes, the axon and dendrites.
- neurones — Plural form of neurone.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- neurosal — of or relating to neurosis; afflicted by a neurosis
- neuroses — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- neutrois — noting or relating to a person of neutral gender who also lacks a specific gender identity.