8-letter words containing d, o, l, i
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drollish — somewhat droll
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- 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.
- drowsily — half-asleep; sleepy.
- dulcitol — a water-soluble sugar alcohol, C 6 H 14 O 6 , isomeric with sorbitol, that is found in many plant species and is prepared in the laboratory by galactose reduction.
- dyslogia — inability to express ideas because of faulty reasoning or speech, due to a mental disorder.
- ecocidal — the destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals.
- edulious — (obsolete) edible.
- eidolons — Plural form of eidolon.
- el obeid — a city in the central Sudan, in Kordofan province: scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi (1883). Pop: 423 000 (2005 est)
- elitedom — The realm or sphere of the elite.
- elytroid — like an elytron
- emulsoid — a sol with a liquid disperse phase
- erodible — Capable of eroding.
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- evildoer — A person who commits profoundly immoral and malevolent deeds.
- exordial — Of or relating to an exordium, beginning or introduction.
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- fivefold — five times as great or as much.
- flooding — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- floodlit — Lit by floodlights.
- floridly — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- fluoride — a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF.
- fluoroid — (crystallography) A tetrahexahedron.
- foldings — Plural form of folding.
- foliaged — Having foliage.
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- fondling — to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress: to fondle a precious object; to fondle a child.
- galenoid — relating to or resembling galena
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- giltwood — made of wood and gilded
- girlhood — the state or time of being a girl.
- gladiola — gladiolus (def 1).
- gladioli — Plural form of gladiolus.
- globoids — Plural form of globoid.
- go-devil — a flexible, jointed apparatus forced through a pipeline to free it from obstructions.
- godchild — a child for whom a godparent serves as sponsor at baptism.
- godolias — Gedaliah.
- goidelic — Also called Q-Celtic. the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound remained a velar. Irish and Scottish Gaelic belong to Goidelic.
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- goldsize — an adhesive used to fix gold leaf to a surface
- goodwill — friendly disposition; benevolence; kindness.
- gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65