8-letter words containing a, o, d
- footpads — Plural form of footpad.
- fordable — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- foredate — to antedate.
- foredeal — An advantage; benefit; profit.
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehead — the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreland — a cape, headland, or promontory.
- foresaid — aforementioned; aforesaid.
- foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- formated — Misspelling of formatted.
- forstand — (transitive) To stand against; oppose; withstand.
- forwards — forward.
- forzando — sforzando
- foulards — Plural form of foulard.
- foveated — having foveae; pitted.
- frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gadabout — a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- gadzooks — An exclamation of surprise or annoyance.
- galenoid — relating to or resembling galena
- galloped — Simple past tense and past participle of gallop.
- galopade — a lively round dance in duple time.
- galoshed — Wearing galoshes.
- gamboled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gammoned — Simple past tense and past participle of gammon.
- gamodeme — an isolated breeding population
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- gesualdo — Don Carlo [dawn kahr-law] /dɔn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), Prince of Venosa [ve-naw-zah] /vɛˈnɔ zɑ/ (Show IPA), c1560–1613, Italian composer.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- gioconda — Mona Lisa.
- giordano — Luca [loo-kuh;; Italian loo-kah] /ˈlu kə;; Italian ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Luca Fapresto") 1632–1705, Italian painter.