8-letter words containing ori
- lorikeet — any of various small lories.
- lorimers — Plural form of lorimer.
- mahzorim — Plural form of mahzor.
- majoring — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- majority — the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total (opposed to minority): the majority of the population.
- manorial — (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc.
- marjorie — a feminine name
- memorial — something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday.
- memoried — having a memory (usually used in combination): short-memoried; long-memoried.
- memories — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
- memorise — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- memorize — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- meteoric — of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- minoring — lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
- minorite — Friar Minor.
- minority — the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
- moorings — the act of a person or thing that moors.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- motorial — (biology) motor.
- motoring — a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- motorise — Alternative spelling of motorize.
- motorist — a person who drives or travels in a privately owned automobile.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- motorize — to furnish with a motor, as a vehicle.
- neorican — a Puerto Rican living in New York or one who has lived in New York and returned to Puerto Rico.
- odorizer — A device to add odor to a gas.
- oratorio — an extended musical composition with a text more or less dramatic in character and usually based upon a religious theme, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, and performed without action, costume, or scenery.
- oribatid — a mite of the family Oribatoidea
- orichalc — a yellow alloy derived from gold or copper
- orielled — having an oriel window
- oriental — (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
- oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- orienter — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- orifices — an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe; a mouthlike opening or hole; mouth; vent.
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- orillion — a part of a bastion used for defence
- orinasal — pronounced with the voice issuing through the mouth and the nose simultaneously, as in the nasalized vowels of French.
- orionids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Orionid meteor shower) visible during October, and having its apparent origin in the constellation Orion.
- oriskany — a village in central New York, near Utica: battle 1777.
- pecorino — a dry, hard Italian cheese made of ewe's milk, especially Romano.
- pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
- pelorize — to affect with peloria.
- perforin — a protein produced by killer cells of the immune system that causes disintegration of targeted cells by forming pores in their membranes.
- porifera — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- poriform — resembling a pore in form.
- poriness — the state or condition of being porous; porosity
- poristic — of or relating to a porism
- pretoria — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.