8-letter words containing a, d, l
- old fart — fart (def 2).
- old goat — an elderly man who is disliked, especially for being mean to or disapproving of younger people.
- old hand — a person who is experienced in or familiar with a subject, area, procedure, etc.: The guide you just hired is an old hand at leading safaris.
- old lady — a mother, usually one's own.
- old maid — Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster.
- old stoa — the earliest phase of Stoicism, lasting from the latter part of the 4th century to the early part of the 3rd century b.c.
- old talk — (chat) The old implementations of talk. See "ntalk" for details.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- oleander — a poisonous shrub, Nerium oleander, of the dogbane family, native to southern Eurasia, having evergreen leaves and showy clusters of pink, red, or white flowers, and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- opalized — made into an opal
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- our lady — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- overglad — too glad
- overlade — to overload (usually used in past participle overladen): a table overladen with rich food.
- overlaid — simple past tense of overlie.
- overland — by land; on terrain: to travel overland rather than by sea.
- overlard — to cover with lard
- overload — to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- ovicidal — a substance or preparation, especially an insecticide, capable of killing egg cells.
- oxidable — able to undergo oxidation
- paillard — a scallop, especially of veal or chicken, that is pounded flat and grilled or sautéed quickly.
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palladia — Also, Palladion [puh-ley-dee-on] /pəˈleɪ diˌɒn/ (Show IPA). a statue of Athena, especially one on the citadel of Troy on which the safety of the city was supposed to depend.
- palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- palladio — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1508–80, Italian architect famous for his widely translated Four Books of Architecture, 1570.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.
- palliard — an expert beggar; an unsavoury character
- pallidly — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- palmated — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
- palmdale — a city in SW California.
- palmiped — a web-footed bird
- palpated — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- paludine — marshy
- paludism — malaria.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- panelled — A panelled room has decorative wooden panels covering its walls.
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parkland — a grassland region with isolated or grouped trees, usually in temperate regions.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).