8-letter words containing a, o, d
- adorable — If you say that someone or something is adorable, you are emphasizing that they are very attractive and you feel great affection for them.
- adorably — very attractive or delightful; charming: What an adorable hat!
- adorning — Make more beautiful or attractive.
- adperson — a copywriter, account executive, or other person employed in advertising.
- adrastos — a king of Argos and leader of the Seven against Thebes.
- adroitly — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
- adsorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of adsorb.
- adsorber — something which adsorbs
- adulator — to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
- advisors — Plural form of advisor.
- advisory — An advisory group regularly gives suggestions and help to people or organizations, especially about a particular subject or area of activity.
- advocaat — a liqueur having a raw egg base
- advocacy — Someone's advocacy of a particular action or plan is their act of recommending it publicly.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- advoutry — adultery
- advowson — the right of presentation to a vacant benefice
- adynaton — (rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility.
- aerodart — a steel arrow dropped from an aircraft as a weapon
- aeroduct — an air duct
- aerodyne — any heavier-than-air machine, such as an aircraft, that derives the greater part of its lift from aerodynamic forces
- afforded — to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect: The country can't afford another drought.
- agalwood — a soft, resinous wood of the Asain tree Aquilaria malaccensis, known for its aromatic qualities, and used in incense
- agonised — Simple past tense and past participle of agonise.
- agonized — Agonized describes something that you say or do when you are in great physical or mental pain.
- ahead of — If someone is ahead of you, they are directly in front of you. If someone is moving ahead of you, they are in front of you and moving in the same direction.
- aidoneus — a king of Thesprotia.
- air drop — An air drop is a delivery of supplies by aircraft to an area that is hard to get to. The supplies are dropped from the aircraft on parachutes.
- air wood — timber dried naturally by contact with the open air.
- airboard — an inflatable board resembling a bodyboard that is used in the sport of airboarding
- airbound — supported by air
- airdrome — An airdrome is a place or area where small aircraft can land and take off.
- airdrops — Plural form of airdrop.
- al desko — (of a meal, esp lunch) at one's desk at one's place of work
- al-obeid — El Obeid
- albinoid — Of or pertaining to an animal or person with albinism.
- alcindor — (Ferdinand) Lew(is, Jr.) original name of Abdul-Jabbar.
- aldolase — an enzyme present in the body that breaks down fructose into triose sugars
- aldoxime — an oxime formed by reaction between hydroxylamine and an aldehyde
- alkaloid — any of a group of nitrogenous basic compounds found in plants, typically insoluble in water and physiologically active. Common examples are morphine, strychnine, quinine, nicotine, and caffeine
- alkoxide — a compound formed by the removal of a proton from an alcohol
- all told — You can use all told to introduce or follow a summary, general statement, or total.
- allodial — (of land) held as an allodium
- allodium — lands held in absolute ownership, free from such obligations as rent or services due to an overlord
- allotted — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- almohade — a member of a group of puritanical Muslims, originally Berbers, who arose in S Morocco in the 12th century as a reaction against the corrupt Almoravides and who ruled Spain and all Maghrib from about 1147 to after 1213
- alvarado — ˈPedro de (ˈpɛdroʊ deɪ ) ; peˈdrō dā) 1495-1541; Sp. general with Cortés in the conquest of Mexico
- amberoid — a synthetic amber made by compressing pieces of amber and other resins together at a high temperature
- amblypod — one of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Pantodonta, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a massive body and short legs.
- amidmost — in the middle or centre
- amidogen — a compound radical, NH2, derived from ammonia