8-letter words containing d, o, l, a
- old talk — (chat) The old implementations of talk. See "ntalk" for details.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- oleander — a poisonous shrub, Nerium oleander, of the dogbane family, native to southern Eurasia, having evergreen leaves and showy clusters of pink, red, or white flowers, and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- opalized — made into an opal
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- our lady — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- overglad — too glad
- overlade — to overload (usually used in past participle overladen): a table overladen with rich food.
- overlaid — simple past tense of overlie.
- overland — by land; on terrain: to travel overland rather than by sea.
- overlard — to cover with lard
- overload — to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- ovicidal — a substance or preparation, especially an insecticide, capable of killing egg cells.
- oxidable — able to undergo oxidation
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palladio — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1508–80, Italian architect famous for his widely translated Four Books of Architecture, 1570.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pavlodar — a city in NE Kazakhstan.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- phalloid — having the form of or bearing a similarity to a penis
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- platypod — Also, platypodous [pluh-tip-uh-duh s] /pləˈtɪp ə dəs/ (Show IPA). having a broad foot, as certain gastropod mollusks.
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- playdown — a play-off.
- podalgia — pain in the foot.
- polaroid — instant photograph
- poleaxed — a medieval shafted weapon with blade combining ax, hammer, and apical spike, used for fighting on foot.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- poloidal — relating to a type of magnetic field
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- ponderal — relating to weight
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- rag doll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
- rag-doll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
- railroad — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.