8-letter words containing nit
- munition — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- mylonite — Geology. a rock that has been crushed and sheared to such an extent that its original texture has been destroyed.
- nit-lamp — jacklight.
- nit-pick — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
- nitpicky — Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
- nitrated — Reacted, or treated with nitric acid or a nitrate.
- nitrates — Plural form of nitrate.
- nitrator — A reaction vessel in which nitration takes place.
- nitrides — Plural form of nitride.
- nitrites — Plural form of nitrite.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- nitrolic — of or noting a series of acids of the type RC(=NOH)NO 2 , whose salts form deep-red solutions.
- nitroso- — of or containing nitrosyl
- nitrosyl — nitroso.
- nitroxyl — the chemical compound HNO
- nonunity — Not of or pertaining to unity.
- oceanite — A variety of picrite that is chiefly composed of olivine phenocrysts.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- ornithic — of or relating to birds.
- ornitho- — bird or birds
- penitent — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- prehnite — a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- preunite — to unite in advance
- punition — punishment.
- punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- queenite — a supporter of a queen
- reignite — to set on fire; kindle.
- renitent — resisting pressure; resistant.
- retinite — any of various fossil resins, especially one derived from brown coal.
- rhinitis — inflammation of the nose or its mucous membrane.
- rib-knit — (of a knitted garment or fabric) having a pattern of ribs: a rib-knit sweater.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- sagenite — a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- salinity — of, containing, or resembling common table salt; salty or saltlike: a saline solution.
- samnitis — a poisonous plant
- sanitary — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
- sanitate — to make sanitary; equip with sanitary appliances: to sanitate a new town.
- sanities — the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
- sanitise — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sanitize — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- saponite — a clay mineral, hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate, belonging to the montmorillonite group: found as a soft filling in rock cavities.
- satanity — the quality or act of being satanic
- saxonite — any peridotite rock composed mainly of olivine and orthopyroxene
- selenite — Mineralogy. a variety of gypsum, found in transparent crystals and foliated masses.
- serenity — the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness.
- si units — an internationally accepted coherent system of physical units, derived from the MKSA (meter-kilogram-second-ampere) system, using the meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela as the basic units (SI units) respectively of the fundamental quantities of length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity. Abbreviation: SI.
- stannite — a mineral, iron-black to steel-gray in color, with a metallic luster, copper iron tin sulfide, Cu 2 FeSnS 4 : an ore of tin.
- steinitz — William (Wilhelm Steinitz) 1836–1900, U.S. chess player, born in Austria-Hungary.
- sternite — a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.