8-letter words containing ns
- cryogens — Plural form of cryogen.
- cullions — Plural form of cullion.
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- cushions — Plural form of cushion.
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- darkmans — night-time
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- defensed — resistance against attack; protection: Two more regiments are needed for the defense of the city.
- defenses — Plural form of defense.
- defensin — (protein) Any of a family of cysteine-rich proteins that are active against bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- defensor — One who defends; a defender.
- dendrons — Plural form of dendron.
- denizens — Plural form of denizen.
- descanso — A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- dictions — style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
- dimensia — Misspelling of dementia.
- discerns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discern.
- disdains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disdain.
- dishpans — Plural form of dishpan.
- disjoins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disjoin.
- dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- dolphins — Plural form of dolphin.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- dragoons — Plural form of dragoon.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- dubinsky — David, 1892–1982, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland: president of the I.L.G.W.U. 1932–66.
- duckpins — Plural form of duckpin.
- dudgeons — Plural form of dudgeon.
- dungeons — Plural form of dungeon.
- dustbins — Plural form of dustbin.
- dustpans — Plural form of dustpan.
- eastlins — in an eastward direction
- echelons — Plural form of echelon.
- editions — Plural form of edition.
- eftsoons — soon after.
- eidolons — Plural form of eidolon.
- einstein — (photochemistry) One mole of photons, regardless of frequency, as used to measure irradiance.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- elisions — Plural form of elision.
- emotions — Plural form of emotion.
- enations — Plural form of enation.
- enchains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enchain.
- enlivens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enliven.