8-Letter Words with A,I,N,O,S,S,_,_

• an area in Germany around the upper Elbe river; the original home of the Saxons

• how something is done or how it happens

• characteristic or habitual practice

• the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

• consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode

• make out of components (often in an improvising manner)

• viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc.

• a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes

• affect with wonder

• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

• the deliberate act of failing to pay money

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

• unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia

• analysis of verse into metrical patterns

• a group that defends a principle

• a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle

• projecting part of a rampart or other fortification