8-letter words containing d, o, i, n
- rounding — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- satinpod — either of two European plants belonging to the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family, L. annua or L. rediviva, cultivated for their shiny flowers and large, round, flat, satiny pods.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- scincoid — of, relating to, or resembling a skink.
- scolding — a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- sedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- sidebone — ossification of the cartilages in the lateral portion of the foot of a horse, resulting in lameness.
- sidelong — directed to one side: a sidelong glance.
- sidenote — a note written in the margin of a page
- sidonian — a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- sinusoid — a curve described by the equation y = a sin x, the ordinate being proportional to the sine of the abscissa.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- sismondi — Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de [zhahn sharl ley-aw-nar see-mawnd duh] /ʒɑ̃ ʃarl leɪ ɔˈnar siˈmɔ̃d də/ (Show IPA), 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist.
- 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.
- skinfood — cosmetic cream for the skin
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- 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.
- sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- 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.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- sounding — emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- spongoid — resembling a sponge
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- sudation — sweating; sweat
- syconoid — pertaining to or resembling a sycon.
- taenioid — ribbon-like in structure
- tandoori — baked or cooked in a tandoor: tandoori chicken.
- tetanoid — Pathology. an infectious, often fatal disease caused by a specific bacterium that enters the body through wounds and characterized by respiratory paralysis and tonic spasms and rigidity of the voluntary muscles, especially those of the neck and lower jaw. Compare lockjaw.
- thindown — a reduction in the number of particles, esp protons, of very high energy reaching and penetrating the earth's atmosphere from outer space
- tie down — that with which anything is tied.
- tie-down — a device for tying something down.
- toadying — an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
- tolidine — any of several isomeric derivatives of biphenyl containing two methyl and two amino groups, especially the ortho isomer that is used as a reagent and in the preparation of dyes.
- tornadic — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- trendoid — a follower of trends
- trinodal — having three nodes or joints.
- unbodied — incorporeal; disembodied.
- unboding — not boding or announcing beforehand; not looking to the future
- unboiled — not boiled