8-letter words containing d, g
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- off-grid — energy: not from main supply
- old fogy — a person who is excessively old-fashioned in attitude, ideas, manners, etc.
- old girl — Chiefly British. a former student at a girl's school, especially a preparatory school.
- old goat — an elderly man who is disliked, especially for being mean to or disapproving of younger people.
- old gold — a color ranging in hue from medium yellow to light olive brown.
- oldening — Present participle of olden.
- on guard — prepared, at the ready
- on-glide — a transitional sound produced by the vocal organs in moving from an inactive position or a previous sound to the articulatory position necessary for producing a following sound. Compare off-glide (def 1).
- ondogram — The recording produced by an ondograph.
- onondaga — a member of a tribe of Iroquoian Indians formerly inhabiting the region of Onondaga Lake.
- oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
- ordering — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- organdie — a fine, thin cotton fabric usually having a durable crisp finish, white, dyed, or printed: used for blouses, dresses, curtains, trimmings, etc.
- organoid — Resembling an organ of the body.
- orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
- outdodge — to surpass in dodging
- outdoing — Present participle of outdo.
- outguard — a guard placed furthest away from the main contingent of an army
- outguide — a folder in a filing system
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- overaged — Aged too much.
- overdogs — Plural form of overdog.
- overedge — (sewing) To overlock.
- overgild — to cover with gilding.
- overgird — to gird too tightly
- overglad — too glad
- overgoad — to goad excessively
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- pagandom — the part of the world inhabited by pagans.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
- parading — a large public procession, usually including a marching band and often of a festive nature, held in honor of an anniversary, person, event, etc.
- paygrade — a level on a pay scale
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- 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.
- peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
- pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
- pedology — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- peg down — to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- petdingo — (tool) An Estelle to C++ translator.
- piddling — amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money.
- pig lead — lead molded in pigs.
- pillaged — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pindling — puny; sickly; frail; weak.
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- pleading — the act of a person who pleads.
- pledging — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.