8-letter words containing d, i, l
- mytiloid — of or relating to the genus Mytilus or family Mytilideae of saltwater mussels
- nail bed — the dermis and epidermis under a fingernail or toenail.
- nailfold — the fold of skin at the base of the fingernail
- nailhead — the enlarged top of a nail, usually flattened but sometimes rounded.
- needling — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- nickeled — Simple past tense and past participle of nickel.
- ninefold — nine times as great or as much.
- nodality — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- nodalize — to make something nodal or concentrated at a point
- nonfluid — a substance that is not a fluid
- nonideal — (of a gas or solution) differing in behavior from that of an ideal gas or solution.
- nonsolid — any substance that is not in a solid state, ie a liquid or a gas
- nontidal — Not tidal.
- nonvalid — not valid; invalid
- noodling — to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, especially as a warm-up exercise.
- 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.
- nuffield — William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield. 1877–1963, English motorcar manufacturer and philanthropist. He endowed Nuffield College at Oxford (1937) and the Nuffield Foundation (1943), a charitable trust for the furtherance of medicine and education
- nundinal — any of the letters of the alphabet from A to H that related to the days of the ancient Roman week
- obelised — to mark (a word or passage) with an obelus.
- obelized — Simple past tense and past participle of obelize.
- obliqued — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- obliquid — aimed in an oblique direction
- odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
- odiously — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- oeillade — an amorous glance; ogle.
- oil drum — a metal drum used to contain or transport oil
- oil find — the discovery of oil deposits underground or under the sea
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilfield — an area in which there are large deposits of oil.
- oilfired — (of central heating) using oil as fuel
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- oilseeds — Plural form of oilseed.
- old bill — a policeman
- old bird — Some people use the phrase old bird to refer to someone and say what they are like.
- old girl — Chiefly British. a former student at a girl's school, especially a preparatory school.
- old maid — Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster.
- old nick — the devil; Satan.
- old-line — following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
- old-time — belonging to or characteristic of old or former times, methods, ideas, etc.: old-time sailing ships; an old-time piano player.
- oldening — Present participle of olden.
- oldfield — Berna Eli [bur-nuh] /ˈbɜr nə/ (Show IPA), ("Barney") 1878–1946, U.S. racing-car driver.
- oldtimer — An elderly person.
- 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.
- 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).
- opalized — made into an opal
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.