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8-letter words containing s, p, o, n

  • moonship — a lunar module
  • mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
  • 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)
  • necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
  • neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
  • neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
  • nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
  • nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
  • nepotist — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
  • nol-pros — to end by a nolle prosequi.
  • non-stop — being without a single stop en route: a nonstop bus; a nonstop flight from New York to Paris.
  • nonstops — Plural form of nonstop.
  • notepads — Plural form of notepad.
  • nslookup — (networking)   A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
  • one-spot — the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
  • one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
  • one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
  • open sea — the main body of a sea or ocean, especially the part that is outside territorial waters and not enclosed, or partially enclosed, by land.
  • open set — a set which is not a closed set
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openings — Plural form of opening.
  • openness — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
  • openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
  • openstep — (operating system)   An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
  • operands — Plural form of operand.
  • operants — Plural form of operant.
  • opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
  • opinions — Plural form of opinion.
  • oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
  • opposing — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
  • opsonify — to facilitate phagocytosis of (a microorganism, as a bacterium) by treatment with opsonin.
  • opsonins — Plural form of opsonin.
  • opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
  • opsonize — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
  • opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
  • osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
  • outspans — Plural form of outspan.
  • outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
  • outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
  • overspin — topspin.
  • pangloss — a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
  • panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
  • pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
  • paraison — parison.
  • pasolini — Pier Paolo, 1922–75, Italian film director and poet.
  • passions — desire
  • paste-on — that can be pasted or stuck on: canning jars with paste-on labels.
  • paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • patinous — patinated.
  • patrones — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
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