8-letter words containing d, o, a
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- chokidar — (in India) a warden, custodian, or gatekeeper
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chordata — the phylum comprising the chordates.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- cladodes — Plural form of cladode.
- clamored — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clochard — a tramp
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- clotilda — ?475–?545 ad, wife of Clovis I of the Franks, whom she converted (496) to Christianity
- cloudage — a mass of clouds
- coadmire — to admire together
- coal hod — a small pail for carrying coal; a coal scuttle.
- coaldust — fine particles of coal
- coalshed — a shed in which coal is stored
- coalyard — an enclosed or open area used for the storage of coal
- coattend — to attend jointly
- cocamide — A mixture of amides of the fatty acids obtained from coconut oil, used in many surfactants.
- coccidia — any sporozoan of the order Coccidia, often parasitic in the digestive tracts of certain animals and a cause of coccidiosis.
- cockaded — Wearing a cockade.
- cockades — Plural form of cockade.
- codename — Alternative spelling of code name.
- codomain — the set of values that a function is allowed to take
- cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
- colander — A colander is a container in the shape of a bowl with holes in it which you wash or drain food in.
- cold war — The Cold War was the period of hostility and tension between the Soviet bloc and the Western powers that followed the Second World War.
- coldslaw — coleslaw.
- coleader — a fellow leader
- collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- collards — A cabbage of a variety that does not develop a heart.
- collared — the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
- collated — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
- colorado — a state of the central US: consists of the Great Plains in the east and the Rockies in the west; drained chiefly by the Colorado, Arkansas, South Platte, and Rio Grande Rivers. Capital: Denver. Pop: 4 550 688 (2003 est). Area: 269 998 sq km (104 247 sq miles)
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- come and — to move towards a particular person or thing or accompany a person with some specified purpose
- comedial — a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- commando — A commando is a group of soldiers who have been specially trained to carry out surprise attacks.
- commands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commaund — Obsolete form of command.
- compadre — a male friend
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- concaved — curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
- condylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- conehead — a stupid person.
- conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack