8-letter words containing d, o, i, n
- dong hai — East China Sea.
- dongting — a lake in S China, in NE Hunan province: main outlet flows to the Yangtze; rice-growing in winter. Area: (in winter) 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- donicker — bathroom; toilet.
- doodling — a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.
- doornail — a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- dormient — sleeping; dormant.
- dornbirn — a city in W Austria, in Vorarlberg. Pop: 42 301 (2001)
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- dotation — an endowment.
- dotingly — In a doting manner.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- downhill — down the slope of a hill; downward.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downline — Alternative spelling of down line.
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- downtick — a decline or deterioration in business activity, in mood, etc.
- downtime — a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
- downwind — in the direction toward which the wind is blowing: We coasted downwind.
- doziness — The state of being dozy.
- draconic — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- drink to — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drypoint — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- du quoin — a town in SW Illinois: site of the Hambletonian.
- duettino — a duet that is brief and to the point
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).