6-letter words containing d, o
- adorer — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adores — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
- adorno — Theodor Wiesengrund. 1903–69, German philosopher, sociologist, and music critic. His writings include The Philosophy of the New Music (1949) and Negative Dialectics (1966)
- adorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adorn.
- adoula — Cyrille [see-ril] /siˈrɪl/ (Show IPA), 1922–78, African statesman: premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1961–64.
- adours — a river in SW France, flowing N from the Pyrenees and then W to the Bay of Biscay. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- adroit — Someone who is adroit is quick and skilful in their thoughts, behaviour, or actions.
- adsorb — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a substance, usually a gas, accumulates on the surface of a solid forming a thin film, often only one molecule thick
- adsorp — (nonstandard) To adsorb.
- adviso — (obsolete) information; advice; intelligence.
- advoke — To summon or call (to a higher tribunal).
- afford — If you cannot afford something, you do not have enough money to pay for it.
- afroed — (of the hair) Styled into an afro.
- ahidjo — Ahmadou [ah-mah-doo] /ɑ mɑˈdu/ (Show IPA), 1924–1989, statesman: president of Cameroon 1960–82.
- aikido — a Japanese system of self-defence employing similar principles to judo, but including blows from the hands and feet
- albedo — the ratio of the intensity of light reflected from an object, such as a planet, to that of the light it receives from the sun
- aldols — Plural form of aldol.
- aldose — a sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is a hemiacetal
- alfold — Also called Great Alföld. a vast plain in E Hungary, extending to the border of Ukraine and into Serbia and W Romania.
- algoid — resembling or relating to algae
- almond — Almonds are pale oval nuts. They are often used in cooking.
- alodia — allodium.
- amadou — a spongy substance made from certain fungi, such as Polyporus (or Fomes) fomentarius and related species, used as tinder to light fires, in medicine to stop bleeding, and, esp formerly, by anglers to dry off dry flies between casts
- amido- — (in chemistry) indicating the presence of an amide group
- amidol — a grey to colourless soluble crystalline solid that is used as a photographic developer; 2,4-diaminophenol dihydrochloride. Formula: C6H3(NH2)2(OH).2HCl
- amodal — Not modal (in any sense).
- amoled — active-matrix organic light-emitting diode
- and/or — used to join terms when either one or the other or both is indicated
- andro- — male; masculine
- andron — a son of Anius who was given the power of prophecy by Apollo.
- andros — an island in the Aegean Sea, the northernmost of the Cyclades: long famous for wine. Capital: Andros. Pop: 10 009 (2001). Area: about 311 sq km (120 sq miles)
- anodal — Relating to the anode.
- anodes — Plural form of anode.
- anodic — pertaining to an anode or the phenomena in its vicinity.
- ao dai — the traditional costume of Vietnamese women, consisting of a long, high-necked, closefitting tunic split along the sides from waist to hem: it is worn over loosefitting trousers
- aoudad — a wild mountain sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of N Africa, having horns curved in a semicircle and long hair covering the neck and forelegs
- apedom — the state of being an ape
- apodal — (of snakes, eels, etc) without feet; having no obvious hind limbs or pelvic fins
- ardors — Plural form of ardor.
- ardour — Ardour is a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something.
- armado — Obsolete form of armada.
- arnold — a town in N central England, in S Nottinghamshire. Pop: 37 402 (2001)
- around — To be positioned around a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move around a place means to go along its edge, back to your starting point.
- ashdod — a town in central Israel, on the Mediterranean coast: an important city in the Philistine Empire, with its artificial harbour (1961) it is now a major port. Pop: 192 000 (2003 est)
- atoned — to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for): to atone for one's sins.
- atwood — Margaret (Eleanor) born 1939, Canadian poet and novelist. Her novels include Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1986), Alias Grace (1996), the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin (2000), and Oryx and Crake (2003)
- audio- — indicating hearing or sound
- audion — an early type of triode.
- avedon — Richard, 1923–2004, U.S. photographer.
- avoids — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avoid.