8-letter words containing s, o, l
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
- monocles — Plural form of monocle.
- monologs — Plural form of monolog.
- moonless — the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- moralise — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralism — the habit of moralizing.
- moralist — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- morellos — Plural form of morello.
- morosely — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- mosaical — of or relating to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: Mosaic ethics.
- moslings — shavings or pieces from an animal skin that is being prepared
- mossland — a land covered in peat
- mosslike — Resembling moss or some aspect of it.
- mostoles — a city in central Spain, a SW suburb of Madrid.
- mouflons — Plural form of mouflon.
- moulders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moulder.
- movables — Plural form of movable.
- moveless — lacking movement: the still night with its moveless branches.
- mulattos — Plural form of mulatto.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- mullions — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- multitos — (operating system) (MTOS) A new version of TOS. MultiTOS's main advantage was support for pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection. It also supported the latest (and far superior) versions of GEM. MultiTOS was supplied with the Falcon030 range of computers from Atari. It is a little known fact that the MultiTOS kernel was based heavily on the freeware OS MinT which was developed long before Atari got MultiTOS working.
- musculo- — muscle, muscle and
- myelomas — Plural form of myeloma.
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- nasology — the scientific study of noses.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- nebulose — cloudlike; nebulous.
- nebulous — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
- neoblast — any large and undifferentiated stem cell in certain worms, esp planarian worms, involved in regeneration and repair
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- neostyle — a manifolding device similar to the cyclostyle.
- net loss — A net loss is the difference between gross profit on sales and operating expenses if gross profit is less than operating expenses.
- neurosal — of or relating to neurosis; afflicted by a neurosis
- nevelson — Louise, 1900–1988, U.S. sculptor, born in Russia.
- newshole — Alternative form of news hole.
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nicolson — Sir Harold George, 1886–1968, English diplomat, biographer, and journalist (husband of Victoria Mary Sackville-West).
- nitrosyl — nitroso.
- nobelist — a person who is awarded a Nobel prize.
- noblesse — The nobility.
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- nodulose — (biology) having nodules.
- nodulous — having nodules.
- noiseful — characterized by loud noise; noisy
- nol-pros — to end by a nolle prosequi.
- nominals — Plural form of nominal.
- non-sale — the act of selling.