8-letter words containing d, o, m
- gonidium — (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- gordimer — Nadine, 1923–2014, South African short-story writer and novelist: Nobel Prize 1991.
- gourmand — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- grandmom — (US) Grandmother.
- gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
- gumshoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gumshoe.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- handloom — a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- headmost — most advanced; foremost.
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- hemipode — button quail.
- hindmost — furtherest behind or nearest the rear; last.
- hold 'em — a form of poker in which each player is dealt two cards face down and then makes the best five-card hand by combining these with three of five communal cards that are dealt to the center of the table.
- homaloid — a geometrical plane, a flat surface or space
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homebody — a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home.
- homebred — bred or raised at home; native; indigenous; domestic.
- homeland — one's native land.
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- homicide — the killing of one human being by another.
- 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.
- homodont — (of most nonmammalian vertebrates) having teeth that are all of the same type
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- hoodlums — Plural form of hoodlum.
- horn-mad — furiously enraged; intensely angry.
- hoteldom — The world or sphere of hotels.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- humboldt — Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idiogram — Karyogram.
- idiotism — an idiom.
- imbodies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbody.
- imbolden — embolden.
- imbosked — Simple past tense and past participle of imbosk.
- imbossed — Simple past tense and past participle of imboss.
- imidogen — the imido group, especially in an uncombined state.
- immodest — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- imploded — Simple past tense and past participle of implode.
- implodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implode.