8-letter words containing s, o, n
- misogyny — hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women, or prejudice against women.
- mispoint — (transitive) To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
- missions — Plural form of mission.
- missound — to sound or pronounce wrongly
- misunion — A bad or wrong union or alliance.
- mitogens — Plural form of mitogen.
- mixdowns — Plural form of mixdown.
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.
- mock sun — parhelion.
- mod cons — Mod cons are the modern facilities in a house that make it easy and pleasant to live in.
- moistens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moisten.
- moldings — Plural form of molding.
- moleskin — the soft, deep-gray, fragile fur of the mole.
- molinism — the theological doctrine, formulated by Luis Molina, that the consent of the human will is necessary for divine grace to be effective.
- moliones — Cteatus and Eurytus, the twin sons of Molione, sometimes said to have been joined at the waist. They were fathered by Poseidon and reared by Actor.
- momentos — memento.
- monadism — the doctrine of monads as ultimate units of being.
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monardas — Plural form of monarda.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monastir — Bitola
- monensin — a complex derivative of butyric acid, C 3 6 H 6 2 O 1 1 , produced by the bacterium Streptomyces cinnamonensis and used as an antibiotic in animals.
- monerans — Plural form of moneran.
- monessen — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- monetise — to legalize as money.
- mongoose — a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
- monikers — Plural form of moniker.
- monistic — Philosophy. (in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a). (in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- monitors — Plural form of monitor.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- monocles — Plural form of monocle.
- monodies — Plural form of monody.
- monodist — The writer of a monody.
- monologs — Plural form of monolog.
- monomers — Plural form of monomer.
- monopods — Plural form of monopod.
- monosemy — The property of having only one meaning.
- monosome — a chromosome having no homologue, especially an unpaired X chromosome.
- monosomy — The condition of having a diploid chromosome complement in which one (usually the X) chromosome lacks its homologous partner.
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- monsoons — Plural form of monsoon.
- 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.
- montages — Plural form of montage.
- montrose — James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.