8-letter words containing d, a, n, o
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- bedsonia — a former name for the genus of bacteria now called Chlamydia
- bemoaned — to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
- blazoned — to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim: The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boardman — a member of a board
- bodanzky — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1877–1939, Austrian opera director and orchestra conductor: in the U.S. after 1915.
- bodleian — the principal library of Oxford University: a copyright deposit library
- bona dea — an ancient Roman goddess of chastity and fertility.
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- bondable — able to be bonded, fastened, or secured
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bondmaid — an unmarried female serf or slave
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- bonehead — a stupid or obstinate person
- boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- boy band — A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- cant dog — cant hook
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- coattend — to attend jointly
- codename — Alternative spelling of code name.
- codomain — the set of values that a function is allowed to take
- colander — A colander is a container in the shape of a bowl with holes in it which you wash or drain food in.
- come and — to move towards a particular person or thing or accompany a person with some specified purpose
- comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- commando — A commando is a group of soldiers who have been specially trained to carry out surprise attacks.