8-letter words containing a, d, c, o
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- merodach — Marduk.
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- monoacid — having one replaceable hydrogen atom or hydroxyl radical.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- mouchard — a police informer or spy
- mucoidal — Of or pertaining to mucus; mucoid.
- nocardia — any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- nonacids — Plural form of nonacid.
- nondance — a series of simple movements that do not constitute a formal dance
- notecard — A paper card on which notes are written, or which is intended for such use.
- o canada — the Canadian national anthem
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- octapody — (in poetic metre) a line, stanza, or piece of poetic writing that contains eight feet
- odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
- odovacar — Odoacer.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- old face — a type style that originated in the 18th century, characterized by little contrast between thick and thin strokes
- orcadian — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
- orchards — Plural form of orchard.
- ordnance — cannon or artillery.
- ostracod — seed shrimp.
- outdance — to move one's feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, especially to the accompaniment of music.
- outfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outface.
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outraced — Simple past tense and past participle of outrace.
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- ovicidal — a substance or preparation, especially an insecticide, capable of killing egg cells.
- oxidasic — relating to enzymes that catalyse oxidation
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pinacoid — a form whose faces are parallel to two of the axes.
- po-faced — having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.
- podocarp — a stem which supports fruit
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- racemoid — racemic
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- roncador — any of several types of fish found along the Pacific Coast of North America
- rondache — a small, round shield
- salt cod — salted and dried cod that is desalted by soaking before use.