8-letter words containing d, a, l, n
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- 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.
- 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.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- overland — by land; on terrain: to travel overland rather than by sea.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- paludine — marshy
- panderly — in the manner of a pander
- panelled — A panelled room has decorative wooden panels covering its walls.
- 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).
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pearland — a town in SE Texas.
- peatland — an extensive tract of land where peat has formed.
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- pineland — Often, pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest: He longed for the pinelands of his home state.
- plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
- platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
- playdown — a play-off.
- playland — an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- qalandar — (in Islamic countries) one of an order of mendicant dervishes founded in the 14th century.
- raddling — Present participle of raddle.
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- randlord — a mining magnate during the 19th-century gold boom in Johannesburg
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- randomly — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- reginald — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “counsel and rule.”.
- rehandle — to handle again
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- rijndael — Advanced Encryption Standard
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- rondavel — a circular often thatched building with a conical roof
- rosalind — a female given name.
- saarland — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- saddling — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- salading — the ingredients for a salad
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- saltando — (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.
- sand eel — sand lance.
- sand fly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.