8-letter words containing d, i, o
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- fondling — to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress: to fondle a precious object; to fondle a child.
- food aid — food donated, either by a foreign government or by a charitable organization, to people in need, usually in developing countries
- foresaid — aforementioned; aforesaid.
- foreside — the front side or part.
- forewind — a favourable wind
- fort dix — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in S central New Jersey, NNE of Mount Holly.
- founding — simple past tense and past participle of find.
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- froideur — an attitude of haughty aloofness; cold superiority.
- frondizi — Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Spanish ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Spanish ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–1995, Argentine lawyer and political leader; president of Argentina 1958–62.
- fungoids — Plural form of fungoid.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- galenoid — relating to or resembling galena
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- geodesic — Also, geodesical. pertaining to the geometry of curved surfaces, in which geodesic lines take the place of the straight lines of plane geometry.
- geodetic — pertaining to geodesy.
- geomyoid — relating to burrowing rodents of the genus Geomys
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- giltwood — made of wood and gilded
- gioconda — Mona Lisa.
- giordano — Luca [loo-kuh;; Italian loo-kah] /ˈlu kə;; Italian ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Luca Fapresto") 1632–1705, Italian painter.
- girlhood — the state or time of being a girl.
- gladiola — gladiolus (def 1).
- gladioli — Plural form of gladiolus.
- globoids — Plural form of globoid.
- go-devil — a flexible, jointed apparatus forced through a pipeline to free it from obstructions.
- god-king — a human sovereign believed to be a deity or to have godlike attributes.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- godchild — a child for whom a godparent serves as sponsor at baptism.
- goddamit — Alternative spelling of goddammit.
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- godolias — Gedaliah.
- goidelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- goldsize — an adhesive used to fix gold leaf to a surface
- gonidium — (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- goodrich — Samuel Griswold [griz-wuh ld,, -wohld,, -wawld] /ˈgrɪz wəld,, -woʊld,, -wɔld/ (Show IPA), ("Peter Parley") 1793–1860, U.S. author and publisher.
- goodsire — a grandfather
- goodwife — Chiefly Scot. the mistress of a household.
- goodwill — friendly disposition; benevolence; kindness.
- gordimer — Nadine, 1923–2014, South African short-story writer and novelist: Nobel Prize 1991.
- gospodin — a title of respect corresponding to Mr.
- gossiped — idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
- gridiron — a football field.
- gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.