8-letter words containing d, a, y, o
- holidays — Plural form of holiday.
- holliday — Judith Tuvim ("Judy") 1921–65, U.S. comic actress.
- holy day — a consecrated day or religious festival, especially one other than Sunday.
- holyhead — a seaport on Holy Island in NW Wales.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- hydatoid — watery; resembling water; transparent
- hydrator — something that hydrates.
- hydrolat — An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydrozoa — (biology) a large group of marine animals, of the class Hydrozoa, whose life cycles contain a sexual and asexual stage.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- idealogy — Misspelling of ideology.
- idolatry — the religious worship of idols.
- jeopardy — hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- ladyhood — The quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.
- ladylove — a beloved woman; sweetheart or mistress.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lombardy — a region and former kingdom in N Italy. 9190 sq. mi. (23,800 sq. km).
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- manyfold — by many times; by multiples: The state's highway expenses have increased manyfold in the past decade.
- modality — the quality or state of being modal.
- monandry — the practice or condition of having one husband at a time.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
- nodality — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- nondairy — being a substitute for milk or milk products; containing no dairy ingredients: nondairy whipped topping for the pie.
- nondiary — Not of or relating to a diary.
- nonhardy — characterized by fragility or incapable of surviving under difficult conditions
- normandy — a region in N France along the English Channel: invaded and settled by Scandinavians in the 10th century, becoming a duchy in a.d. 911; later a province, the capital of which was Rouen; Allied invasion in World War II began here June 6, 1944.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- octapody — (in poetic metre) a line, stanza, or piece of poetic writing that contains eight feet
- odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
- odyssean — (italics) an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
- old days — a past era
- old lady — a mother, usually one's own.
- 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
- open day — An open day is a day on which members of the public are encouraged to visit a particular school, university, or other institution to see what it is like.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- our lady — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- paduasoy — a slightly corded, strong, rich, silk fabric.
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- platypod — Also, platypodous [pluh-tip-uh-duh s] /pləˈtɪp ə dəs/ (Show IPA). having a broad foot, as certain gastropod mollusks.