8-letter words containing s, o, u, n
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- outlines — Plural form of outline.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outscorn — to defy with scorn
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outsings — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsing.
- outsnore — to outdo in snoring
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
- outstand — to be prominent.
- outsting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- outstunt — to outdo in performing stunts
- outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
- outswung — made to curve outwards
- patinous — patinated.
- peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- pleuston — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- plus-one — a person who accompanies an invited person to a social function
- polonius — the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- postburn — after injury from burns
- postpunk — of or related to a style of music that followed punk rock
- pronouns — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- pug nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pug-nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quinones — Plural form of quinone.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- resinous — full of or containing resin.
- resummon — to summon again
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- rosinous — rosiny
- rounders — a person or thing that rounds something.
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- ructions — disturbance
- scornful — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scroungy — given to or characterized by scrounging.
- scullion — a kitchen servant who does menial work.