8-letter words containing d, o, s, e
- megadose — a dose many times the usual amount, as of a vitamin or drug.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- melodies — a female given name.
- melodise — to make melodious.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- mesoderm — the middle germ layer of a metazoan embryo.
- mesodont — having medium-sized teeth.
- mess-dos — /mes-dos/ (Or MS-DOG, Messy-DOS, mess-dross, mess-loss, mush-dos) Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!" Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, its nasty primitive interface, and its ties to IBMness (see fear and loathing). In Ireland and the UK it is sometimes called "Domestos" after a brand of toilet cleanser.
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- miscoded — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- mislodge — to lodge or accommodate wrongly
- misorder — to put (items, events, etc) into the incorrect order
- mobisode — a typically brief episode of a television show that is available online and formatted for viewing on a mobile phone or smartphone
- modalise — Alternative spelling of modalize.
- modeless — (computing) Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- modelist — a person who makes models, as of airplanes.
- modelsim — (simulation) A simulation tool for programming VLSI ASICs, FPGAs, CPLDs, and SoCs.
- modestly — having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- modifies — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- modjeska — Helena [huh-ley-nuh] /həˈleɪ nə/ (Show IPA), (Helena Opid Modrzejewska) 1840–1909, Polish actress, in U.S. after 1876.
- moidores — Plural form of moidore.
- molested — Simple past tense and past participle of molest.
- monodies — Plural form of monody.
- moodiest — given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
- moonseed — any climbing plant of the genus Menispermum, having greenish-white flowers and crescent-shaped seeds.
- mordents — Plural form of mordent.
- mortised — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- moulders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moulder.
- mud hose — A mud hose is a flexible tube which connects the mud tank to the swivel for forcing mud down the hole inside the drill string.
- mudstone — a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination.
- necrosed — Simple past tense and past participle of necrose.
- nobodies — Plural form of nobody.
- nodulose — (biology) having nodules.
- non-sked — a nonscheduled airline or plane: He got his training with the nonskeds.
- nondense — nowhere-dense.
- noseband — that part of a bridle or halter that passes over the animal's nose.
- nosedive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- obelised — to mark (a word or passage) with an obelus.
- obscured — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obsessed — having an obsession (usually followed by with or by): He is obsessed with eliminating guilt.
- obtrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtrude.
- occludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of occlude.
- oddities — an odd or remarkably unusual person, thing, or event.
- oddments — an odd article, bit, remnant, or the like.
- odonates — Plural form of odonate.
- odorless — the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell: to have an unpleasant odor.
- odyssean — (italics) an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.