8-letter words containing t, u, n, i
- outnight — to mention nights more often than
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- outpoint — to excel in number of points, as in a competition or contest.
- outreign — to reign for longer than
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outsings — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsing.
- outsting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
- outthink — to excel in thinking; think faster, more accurately, or more perceptively than: outthinking most of her contemporaries in the field of human relations.
- outvying — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- patinous — patinated.
- penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- pin tuck — a narrow ornamental fold used esp on shirt fronts and dress bodices
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pinchgut — someone who does not give other people enough food
- pine nut — Also, pignoli. the seed of any of several pine trees, as the piñon, eaten roasted or salted or used in making candy, pastry, etc., after removing the hard seed coat.
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- point up — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- preunite — to unite in advance
- printout — output produced by a printer, generally on continuous sheets of paper.
- prurient — having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
- puissant — powerful; mighty; potent.
- punditic — of or relating to pundits
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- punition — punishment.
- punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- pupation — to become a pupa.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- queen it — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queenite — a supporter of a queen
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
- quieting — Present participle of quiet.