8-letter words containing d, i, o
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- mastoids — of or relating to the mastoid process.
- mediator — a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- 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.
- medusoid — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- melanoid — of or characterized by melanosis.
- 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.
- melodies — a female given name.
- melodion — a small reed organ.
- melodise — to make melodious.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- melodize — to make melodious.
- memoried — having a memory (usually used in combination): short-memoried; long-memoried.
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- 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.
- mid-noon — midday.
- midmonth — the middle of the month
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- midpoint — a point at or near the middle of, or equidistant from, both ends, as of a line: the midpoint of a boundary.
- midstory — the layer of vegetation in a forest that consists of those trees whose height is in between the heights of the smallest and tallest trees
- milkwood — any of various trees having a milky juice, as Pseudomedia spuria, of Jamaica.
- millpond — a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
- mind out — to be careful or pay attention
- mind you — although, having said that
- mind-pop — a word, phrase, image, or sound that comes into the mind suddenly and involuntarily and is usually related to a recent experience.
- mindanao — the second largest island of the Philippines, in the S part of the group. 36,537 sq. mi. (94,631 sq. km).
- mindlock — (fantasy, scifi) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.
- miradors — Plural form of mirador.
- mirrored — a reflecting surface, originally of polished metal but now usually of glass with a silvery, metallic, or amalgam backing.
- miscoded — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- misdoing — A misdeed.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- mislodge — to lodge or accommodate wrongly
- misorder — to put (items, events, etc) into the incorrect order
- misproud — unreasonably proud.
- misshood — the state or period of being an unmarried woman
- missound — to sound or pronounce wrongly
- mixblood — A person of mixed racial heritage.
- mixdowns — Plural form of mixdown.
- mobisode — a typically brief episode of a television show that is available online and formatted for viewing on a mobile phone or smartphone
- modalise — Alternative spelling of modalize.
- modalism — a Christian doctrine that states that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one being exhibited in three different ways rather than three separate entities
- modalist — an adherent of modalism
- modality — the quality or state of being modal.
- mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.