8-letter words containing d, i, c, o
- divorced — Cut off, or separated.
- divorcee — a divorced woman.
- divorces — Plural form of divorce.
- djokovic — Novak. born 1987, Serbian tennis player: winner of twelve Grand Slam singles titles, including six at the Australian Open
- dobchick — Alternative form of dabchick.
- docetism — an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- docetist — One who believes in docetism.
- dochmiac — resembling a dochmius in form or structure
- dochmius — a five-syllable foot, characteristic of ancient Greek dramas
- docilely — easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
- docility — easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
- docimasy — the close examination of a person or substance in order to determine nature, quality and characteristics, formerly used to describe the evaluation of aspirants for public office or citizenship in Ancient Greece, now used of assaying metallic ores
- dockings — Plural form of docking.
- dockside — land or area adjoining a dock: We were at the dockside to greet them.
- doctrine — a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
- dog tick — any of a variety of ticks, as the American dog tick, that commonly infest dogs and may transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever or tularemia to humans.
- dogmatic — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- dohickey — Alternative spelling of doohickey.
- dolichos — a genus of tropical vines
- dolmenic — of or relating to a dolmen
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- domicile — a place of residence; abode; house or home.
- dominica — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- dominick — Animal Husbandry. Dominique.
- domotics — Robotic technology for use in the home.
- donicker — bathroom; toilet.
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- dorticos — Osvaldo [aws-vahl-daw] /ɔsˈvɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado) 1919–83, Cuban lawyer and statesman: president 1959–76.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- downtick — a decline or deterioration in business activity, in mood, etc.
- doxastic — Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural.
- draconic — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dropkick — (football) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
- dulcitol — a water-soluble sugar alcohol, C 6 H 14 O 6 , isomeric with sorbitol, that is found in many plant species and is prepared in the laboratory by galactose reduction.
- dysgonic — growing poorly on artificial media, as certain bacteria (opposed to eugonic).
- dystocia — Difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
- dystonic — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystopic — Dystopian.
- echinoid — belonging or pertaining to the class Echinoidea, comprising mainly sea urchins and sand dollars.
- ecocidal — the destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals.
- edacious — devouring; voracious; consuming.
- eduction — the act of educing.
- encoding — (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- endozoic — (of a plant) living within an animal
- episodic — Containing or consisting of a series of loosely connected parts or events.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- fricando — fricandeau.