8-letter words containing d, i, c
- mediocer — Obsolete form of mediocre.
- mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- mic drop — a gesture in which a person drops (or imitates the action of dropping) a handheld microphone to the ground as the finale to a speech or performance
- mic-drop — the act of intentionally dropping one’s microphone at the end of a speech or performance, displaying a bold confidence that it has been very impressive or cannot be topped.
- microdot — a photograph reduced to the size of a printed period, used especially to transmit messages, photographs, drawings, etc.
- middle c — the note indicated by the first leger line above the bass staff and the first below the treble staff.
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- midwatch — middle watch.
- mimicked — to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
- mindfuck — the deliberate infliction of psychological damage
- mindlock — (fantasy, scifi) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.
- minidisc — A disc having a format similar to a small CD but able to record sound or data as well as play it back.
- miscoded — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- miscreed — a false creed
- miticide — a substance or preparation for killing mites.
- molybdic — of or containing molybdenum, especially in the trivalent or hexavalent states, as molybdic acid, H 2 MoO 4 .
- monoacid — having one replaceable hydrogen atom or hydroxyl radical.
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- mucinoid — any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- mucoidal — Of or pertaining to mucus; mucoid.
- mudbrick — A brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun rather than being fired.
- muricoid — (zoology) Resembling or relating to the genus Murex or family Muricidae.
- muscadin — a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- nice and — pleasingly
- nickeled — Simple past tense and past participle of nickel.
- nickered — neigh.
- nocardia — any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- noctuids — Plural form of noctuid.
- noctuoid — a member of the family of moths Noctuidae
- nonacids — Plural form of nonacid.
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- nuclides — Plural form of nuclide.
- nuclidic — Of or pertaining to nuclides.
- nudicaul — having leafless stems.
- occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
- occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- octopoid — of or like an octopus
- odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
- old nick — the devil; Satan.
- omnicode — Thompson, 1956. Ran on IBM 650.
- oncidium — any of numerous tropical American orchids of the genus Oncidium, having clusters of flowers showing great variety in size, form, and color.
- oniscoid — of or similar to woodlice
- orcadian — a native or inhabitant of Orkney