8-letter words containing s, t, o, n
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- donators — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downmost — in the lowest position
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystonic — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- ecotones — Plural form of ecotone.
- editions — Plural form of edition.
- eftsoons — soon after.
- egestion — the process of egesting; the voiding of the refuse of digestion.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- emotions — Plural form of emotion.
- enations — Plural form of enation.
- endnotes — Plural form of endnote.
- endostea — Plural form of endosteum.
- enforest — to make into a forest
- entresol — A low story between the first floor and the second floor of a building; a mezzanine floor.
- eschaton — The final event in the divine plan; the end of the world.
- essonite — a dark-brown kind of garnet
- esthonia — Estonia
- estonian — of Estonia
- estragon — Tarragon.
- estrogen — Any of a group of steroid hormones that promote the development and maintenance of female characteristics of the body. Such hormones are also produced artificially for use in oral contraceptives or to treat menopausal and menstrual disorders.
- evanston — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan north of Chicago: Northwestern University (1851). Pop: 74 360 (2003 est)
- excitons — Plural form of exciton.
- extensor — A muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.
- eyestone — A small, lenticular, calcareous body, especially an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- fantoosh — pretentious; ostentatious
- fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
- festoons — Plural form of festoon.
- fictions — Plural form of fiction.
- finfoots — Plural form of finfoot.
- fistnote — a printed note, as in a piece of text, distinguished by the figure of a fist with a pointing index finger.
- foist on — If you say that someone foists something on you, or foists it upon you, you dislike the way that they force you to listen to it or experience it.
- foisting — Present participle of foist.
- fondants — Plural form of fondant.
- footings — Plural form of footing.
- formants — Plural form of formant.
- fornenst — next to; near to: They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.
- forspent — worn out; exhausted.
- forstand — (transitive) To stand against; oppose; withstand.
- fortunes — Plural form of fortune.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.