8-letter words containing s, i, n, o, r
- dishonor — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- disponer — someone who dispones
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- elsinore — Helsingør
- emersion — The process or state of emerging from or being out of water after being submerged.
- ensiform — Shaped like a sword blade; long and narrow with sharp edges and a pointed tip.
- environs — The surrounding area or district.
- ericsson — John1803-89; U.S. naval engineer & inventor, born in Sweden: builder of the Monitor
- eriksson — Sven-Goran (ˈsfɛnˈɡɜːrən). born 1948, Swedish football manager; honours as a club manager include the UEFA Cup (1982) with Gothenburg, three Portuguese league titles with Benfica (1983, 1984, 1990), and the Italian league with Lazio (2000); head coach of the England national team (2001–06)
- erosions — Plural form of erosion.
- essoiner — a person who essoins
- eversion — An act of turning inside out.
- farinose — yielding farina.
- fermions — Plural form of fermion.
- forcings — Plural form of forcing.
- foreigns — Plural form of foreign.
- forensic — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreskin — the prepuce of the penis.
- forgings — Plural form of forging.
- forinsec — foreign
- fornices — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- forswink — to exhaust through toil
- frissons — Plural form of frisson.
- froshing — Present participle of frosh.
- frosting — a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
- garrison — William Lloyd, 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
- genitors — Plural form of genitor.
- gisborne — a seaport on E North Island, in N New Zealand.
- goriness — covered or stained with gore; bloody.
- grierson — John. 1898–1972, Scottish film director. He coined the noun documentary, of which genre his Industrial Britain (1931) and Song of Ceylon (1934) are notable examples
- griffons — Plural form of griffon.
- grissino — Italian breadstick
- grossing — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- harrison — Benjamin, 1726?–91, American political leader (father of William Henry Harrison).
- herisson — A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
- heroines — Plural form of heroine.
- histrion — (obsolete) A stage actor.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- horizons — Plural form of horizon.
- hornists — Plural form of hornist.
- ignorers — Plural form of ignorer.
- imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- in irons — wearing shackles