8-letter words containing t, i, n, o
- lewiston — a city in SW Maine.
- libation — a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- ligation — the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- light on — to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
- limation — The act of filing or polishing.
- limonite — an amorphous hydrated ferric oxide, varying in color from dark brown to yellow, used as an ore of iron.
- line out — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- line-out — a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- link rot — (web) The process by which links on a web page became unusable as the pages they point to change location or are removed.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
- linstock — a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.
- litvinov — Maksim Maksimovich [muh-ksyeem muh-ksyee-muh-vyich] /mʌˈksyim mʌˈksyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1951, Russian Communist leader and diplomat.
- loaf tin — a tin that is used for baking bread
- loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- lobation — lobate formation.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- long tin — a tall long loaf of bread
- longlist — A first list, from which a shortlist is prepared.
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- longtime — existing, occurring, or continuing for a long period of time; longstanding: longtime friends celebrating 50 years of association.
- lootings — Plural form of looting.
- lothians — a region in E Scotland. 700 sq. mi. (1813 sq. km).
- lunation — the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.
- luteolin — a yellow coloring substance, C 15 H 10 O 6 , obtained from the weed Reseda luteola: used in dyeing silk and, formerly, in medicine.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- manitoba — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- mannitol — Chemistry. a white, crystalline, sweetish, water-soluble, carbohydrate alcohol, C 6 H 8 (OH) 6 , occurring in three optically different forms, the common one being found in the manna of the ash Fraxinus ornus and in other plants: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, electrolytic condensers for radios, plasticizers, and mannitol hexanitrate, and as a pill excipient.
- marmiton — A chef's assistant, kitchen boy.
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- martinon — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- meionite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in calcium and containing no sodium.
- mentions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mention.
- metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- midmonth — the middle of the month
- midpoint — a point at or near the middle of, or equidistant from, both ends, as of a line: the midpoint of a boundary.
- miltonia — any of various epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Miltonia, having sprays of showy, flat, variously colored flowers.
- miltonic — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- minamoto — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns from 1192 to 1333.
- minatory — menacing; threatening.
- mind out — to be careful or pay attention