8-letter words containing d, i, o
- sistroid — contained between the convex sides of two intersecting curves
- sit down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
- sit-down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skinfood — cosmetic cream for the skin
- sleazoid — a sleazy person
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- smidgeon — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
- smilodon — any of several saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Smilodon, that ranged from California through most of South America during the Pleistocene Epoch and had upper canine teeth more than 6 inches (15 cm) long.
- snowbird — junco.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- sodalist — a member of a sodality.
- sodalite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate, Na 4 Al 3 Si 3 O 1 2 Cl, occurring massive and in crystals, usually blue in color and found in certain alkali-rich igneous rocks.
- sodality — fellowship; comradeship.
- sodamide — sodium amide.
- sodomise — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- sodomist — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- sodomite — an inhabitant of Sodom.
- sodomize — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- soldiery — soldiers collectively.
- solenoid — Electricity. an electric conductor wound as a helix with small pitch, or as two or more coaxial helices, so that current through the conductor establishes a magnetic field within the conductor.
- solidago — any plant of the chiefly American genus Solidago, which includes the goldenrods: family Asteraceae (composites)
- solidare — an old coin
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- solidify — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- solidish — rather solid
- solidism — the belief that diseases spring from damage to solid parts of the body
- solidist — someone who adheres to solidism
- solidity — the state, property, or quality of being solid.
- soliquid — a semisolid, semiliquid solution
- solitude — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- sordidly — morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods.
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- sounding — emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- spongoid — resembling a sponge
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- squaloid — of, relating to, or like a shark, or specifically the dogfish (Squalidae) family of sharks
- steroids — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- sticcado — a type of xylophone