8-letter words containing d, o, i, n
- dysgonic — growing poorly on artificial media, as certain bacteria (opposed to eugonic).
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystonic — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- ebonized — Simple past tense and past participle of ebonize.
- echinoid — belonging or pertaining to the class Echinoidea, comprising mainly sea urchins and sand dollars.
- editions — Plural form of edition.
- eduction — the act of educing.
- eidolons — Plural form of eidolon.
- encoding — (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- endowing — Present participle of endow.
- endozoic — (of a plant) living within an animal
- endpoint — The final stage of a period or process.
- endymion — a handsome youth who was visited every night by the moon goddess Selene, who loved him
- enjoined — Simple past tense and past participle of enjoin.
- fidonews — (messaging, history) The weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet, also known as "'Snooz". As the editorial policy of Fidonews was "anything that arrives, we print", there were often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit flamage in subsequent issues.
- find out — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fishpond — a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.
- flooding — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- foldings — Plural form of folding.
- fondling — to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress: to fondle a precious object; to fondle a child.
- forewind — a favourable wind
- founding — simple past tense and past participle of find.
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- frondizi — Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Spanish ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Spanish ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–1995, Argentine lawyer and political leader; president of Argentina 1958–62.
- fungoids — Plural form of fungoid.
- galenoid — relating to or resembling galena
- genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- gioconda — Mona Lisa.
- giordano — Luca [loo-kuh;; Italian loo-kah] /ˈlu kə;; Italian ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Luca Fapresto") 1632–1705, Italian painter.
- god-king — a human sovereign believed to be a deity or to have godlike attributes.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- gonidium — (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- gospodin — a title of respect corresponding to Mr.
- gridiron — a football field.
- grind on — If you say that something grinds on, you disapprove of the fact that it continues to happen in the same way for a long time.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- gynecoid — of or like a woman.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- handiron — andiron.
- hedonics — the branch of psychology that deals with pleasurable and unpleasurable states of consciousness.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hedonist — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hindfoot — A rear foot.
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- hoarding — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
- holdings — An area of land held by lease.
- hominids — any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors.
- hominoid — Anthropology. a member of the biological superfamily Hominoidea, including all modern great apes and humans and a number of their extinct ancestors and relatives.