8-letter words containing d, o, l, i
- nontidal — Not tidal.
- nonvalid — not valid; invalid
- noodling — to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, especially as a warm-up exercise.
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- obelised — to mark (a word or passage) with an obelus.
- obelized — Simple past tense and past participle of obelize.
- obliqued — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- obliquid — aimed in an oblique direction
- odically — In terms of the hypothetical force called od.
- odiously — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- oeillade — an amorous glance; ogle.
- oil drum — a metal drum used to contain or transport oil
- oil find — the discovery of oil deposits underground or under the sea
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilfield — an area in which there are large deposits of oil.
- oilfired — (of central heating) using oil as fuel
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- oilseeds — Plural form of oilseed.
- old bill — a policeman
- old bird — Some people use the phrase old bird to refer to someone and say what they are like.
- old girl — Chiefly British. a former student at a girl's school, especially a preparatory school.
- old maid — Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster.
- old nick — the devil; Satan.
- old-line — following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
- old-time — belonging to or characteristic of old or former times, methods, ideas, etc.: old-time sailing ships; an old-time piano player.
- oldening — Present participle of olden.
- oldfield — Berna Eli [bur-nuh] /ˈbɜr nə/ (Show IPA), ("Barney") 1878–1946, U.S. racing-car driver.
- oldtimer — An elderly person.
- 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.
- on-glide — a transitional sound produced by the vocal organs in moving from an inactive position or a previous sound to the articulatory position necessary for producing a following sound. Compare off-glide (def 1).
- opalized — made into an opal
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- orielled — having an oriel window
- outbuild — (transitive) To build more or better than.
- outfield — Baseball. the part of the field beyond the diamond. the positions played by the right, center, and left fielders. the outfielders considered as a group (contrasted with infield).
- outlined — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outlived — Simple past tense and past participle of outlive.
- outslide — (poetic) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.
- outyield — (of a crop, country, etc) to yield more than
- overgild — to cover with gilding.
- overidle — too idle
- overlaid — simple past tense of overlie.
- overlied — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overmild — too mild
- 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.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.