8-letter words containing d, s, i
- nobodies — Plural form of nobody.
- noctuids — Plural form of noctuid.
- nodosity — having nodes.
- nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- nonacids — Plural form of nonacid.
- nonsolid — any substance that is not in a solid state, ie a liquid or a gas
- nosedive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- novi sad — an autonomous province within Serbia. 8303 sq. mi. (21,506 sq. km). Capital: Novi Sad.
- nuclides — Plural form of nuclide.
- nudism's — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- obelised — to mark (a word or passage) with an obelus.
- obsidian — a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- oddities — an odd or remarkably unusual person, thing, or event.
- odiously — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- offsider — an assistant or helper.
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- oilseeds — Plural form of oilseed.
- onesided — Biased, only showing one side or point of view on an argument.
- oniscoid — of or similar to woodlice
- openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- 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
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- orionids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Orionid meteor shower) visible during October, and having its apparent origin in the constellation Orion.
- ossified — hardened like or into bone.
- 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.
- overside — over the side, as of a ship.
- oxidasic — relating to enzymes that catalyse oxidation
- oxidised — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludism — malaria.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus
- pheidias — Phidias
- pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
- piedness — the condition or quality of being pied, for example in an animal
- pierides — the Muses
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.