8-letter words containing d, r, o, i
- drollish — somewhat droll
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- dropkick — (football) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drowsier — Comparative form of drowsy.
- drowsily — half-asleep; sleepy.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drypoint — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- elytroid — like an elytron
- embodier — One who embodies.
- embryoid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling an embryo.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- erodible — Capable of eroding.
- evildoer — A person who commits profoundly immoral and malevolent deeds.
- exordial — Of or relating to an exordium, beginning or introduction.
- exordium — The beginning or introductory part, especially of a discourse or treatise.
- fairydom — The realm or sphere of fairies.
- fervidor — Thermidor.
- fibroids — Plural form of fibroid.
- firedogs — Plural form of firedog.
- firewood — wood suitable for fuel.
- floridly — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- fluoride — a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF.
- fluoroid — (crystallography) A tetrahexahedron.
- fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
- foresaid — aforementioned; aforesaid.
- foreside — the front side or part.
- forewind — a favourable wind
- fort dix — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in S central New Jersey, NNE of Mount Holly.
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- froideur — an attitude of haughty aloofness; cold superiority.
- frondizi — Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Spanish ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Spanish ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–1995, Argentine lawyer and political leader; president of Argentina 1958–62.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- giordano — Luca [loo-kuh;; Italian loo-kah] /ˈlu kə;; Italian ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Luca Fapresto") 1632–1705, Italian painter.
- girlhood — the state or time of being a girl.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- goodrich — Samuel Griswold [griz-wuh ld,, -wohld,, -wawld] /ˈgrɪz wəld,, -woʊld,, -wɔld/ (Show IPA), ("Peter Parley") 1793–1860, U.S. author and publisher.
- goodsire — a grandfather
- gordimer — Nadine, 1923–2014, South African short-story writer and novelist: Nobel Prize 1991.