8-letter words containing d, o, s, e
- odysseus — king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
- odysseys — Plural form of odyssey.
- oersteds — Plural form of oersted.
- offsider — an assistant or helper.
- oilseeds — Plural form of oilseed.
- old rose — rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.
- old shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
- old west — the western region of the U.S., especially in the frontier period of the 19th century.
- old-shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- oldsters — Plural form of oldster.
- onesided — Biased, only showing one side or point of view on an argument.
- oostende — a seaport in NW Belgium.
- openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
- orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
- ossified — hardened like or into bone.
- outdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdate.
- outdress — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- outrides — Plural form of outride.
- outsider — a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
- outsides — Plural form of outside.
- outsized — Of an unusually large size.
- outslide — (poetic) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.
- outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- overdoes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdo.
- overdogs — Plural form of overdog.
- overdose — An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
- overdubs — Plural form of overdub.
- overdust — to dust too much
- overseed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
- overside — over the side, as of a ship.
- oversold — simple past tense and past participle of oversell.
- oversuds — to produce too much lather
- overused — to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
- oxidised — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
- oystered — veneered with matched flitches having a figure of concentric rings.
- paludose — growing or living in marshes
- passcode — password (def 2).
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- poolside — the lounging area around a swimming pool.
- portside — situated on the port side
- poseidon — the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes, identified by the Romans with Neptune.
- postcode — an official code used by the post office, similar to the U.S. zip code, that adds numbers and letters to addresses to expedite mail delivery.
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- postdive — following a dive, esp a scuba dive