8-letter words containing d, n, o
- bone dry — If you say that something is bone dry, you are emphasizing that it is very dry indeed.
- bone-dry — very dry.
- bonehead — a stupid or obstinate person
- boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
- bookland — an area of common land given to a private owner
- borodino — a village in E central Russia, about 110 km (70 miles) west of Moscow: scene of a battle (1812) in which Napoleon defeated the Russians but irreparably weakened his army
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- bounding — under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract.
- bountied — offering a bounty.
- bow down — If you refuse to bow down to another person, you refuse to show them respect or to behave in a way which you think would make you seem weaker or less important than them.
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- boy band — A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- branford — a town in S Connecticut.
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- brooding — Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
- browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
- build on — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- cant dog — cant hook
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- censored — Having had objectionable content removed.
- centrode — a locus produced by plotting the course of the instantaneous centre of two bodies in relative motion
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- chenopod — any flowering plant of the family Chenopodiaceae, which includes the beet, mangel-wurzel, spinach, and goosefoot
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chondrin — a resilient translucent bluish-white substance that forms the matrix of cartilage
- chondro- — indicating cartilage
- chondrus — a protoctist genus that belongs to the family Gigartinaceae
- chording — the distribution of chords throughout a piece of harmony
- clorinda — a female given name.
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- cnidocil — a hairlike sensory process projecting from the surface of a cnidoblast, believed to trigger the discharge of the nematocyst.
- co-owned — to own jointly with another: a building I co-owned with my brother.