8-letter words containing u, n, i, o
- isoquant — (economics) A line of equal or constant economic production on a graph, chart or map.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- jonquils — Plural form of jonquil.
- jouncing — Present participle of jounce.
- journies — Plural form of journy.
- jousting — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- juvenoid — A juvenile hormone analogue.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kinkajou — a brownish, arboreal mammal, Potos flavus, of Central and South America, having a prehensile tail, related to the raccoon and coati.
- kino gum — the reddish or black, catechulike inspissated juice or gum of certain tall trees belonging to the genus Pterocarpus, of the legume family, native to India and Sri Lanka, used in medicine, tanning, etc.
- kong qiu — personal name of Confucius.
- laminous — laminate; laminose.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- liaoyuan — a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China.
- ligneous — of the nature of or resembling wood; woody.
- limousin — a former province in central France.
- 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.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- linoleum — a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
- lion cub — baby lion
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- longinus — Dionysius Cassius [kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- lounging — (of a garment) worn for leisure, as at home: lounging robe; lounging jacket.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- 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.
- malunion — (anatomy) Bad or incorrect union (of parts of the body).
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- mind out — to be careful or pay attention
- mind you — although, having said that
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- miquelon — St. Pierre and Miquelon.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- missound — to sound or pronounce wrongly
- misunion — A bad or wrong union or alliance.
- mon dieu — my God
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.