8-letter words containing u, n, o, r, t
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- 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.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- neutrois — noting or relating to a person of neutral gender who also lacks a specific gender identity.
- neutrons — Plural form of neutron.
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nocturne — a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- nocturns — Plural form of nocturn.
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
- nordunet — (networking, body) (Nordic Universities Network?) A collaboration between the national research networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It provides international access for these countries.
- northrup — a male given name.
- northumb — Northumberland
- nostrums — a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- not true — unbelievable; remarkable
- notturno — an 18th-century composition for chamber orchestra, similar to a serenade or a divertimento.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- our town — a play (1938) by Thornton Wilder.
- outdrink — To drink more than someone else.
- outfrown — to outdo in frowning; silence, abash, or subdue by frowning.
- outgrown — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outlearn — to exceed in learning
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- outpreen — to exceed in preening
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- outreign — to reign for longer than
- outscorn — to defy with scorn
- outsnore — to outdo in snoring
- overhunt — to hunt in an unsustainable manner
- overturn — to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.
- postburn — after injury from burns
- printout — output produced by a printer, generally on continuous sheets of paper.
- pronotum — the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
- quintero — Álvarez Quintero.
- rain out — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).