8-letter words containing d, y, o
- dry hole — any well drilled for oil or gas that does not yield enough to be commercially profitable.
- dry-dock — to place (a ship) in a dry dock.
- dry-shod — having or keeping the shoes dry.
- drymouth — a condition of insufficient saliva, known medically as xerostomia
- 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.
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
- dumosity — the condition of being filled with bushes
- duopsony — the market condition that exists when there are only two buyers.
- dyeworks — a factory producing dyes
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- dysgonic — growing poorly on artificial media, as certain bacteria (opposed to eugonic).
- dyslogia — inability to express ideas because of faulty reasoning or speech, due to a mental disorder.
- dysosmia — an impairment of the sense of smell.
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- dystocia — Difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystonic — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopic — Dystopian.
- ecdysone — an insect hormone that stimulates metamorphosis.
- elytroid — like an elytron
- embryoid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling an embryo.
- employed — Give work to (someone) and pay them for it.
- endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
- endogeny — Growth from within.
- endymion — a handsome youth who was visited every night by the moon goddess Selene, who loved him
- enhydros — a piece of chalcedony that contains water
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- eyedrops — Plural form of eyedrop.
- fairydom — The realm or sphere of fairies.
- fat body — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- floridly — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- fogeydom — the state or disposition of a fogey
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- foodways — the customs and traditions relating to food and its preparation
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forebody — the part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- geomyoid — relating to burrowing rodents of the genus Geomys
- godowsky — Leopold, 1870–1938, U.S. composer and pianist, born in Poland.
- goldenly — In a golden manner.
- good day — day spent well
- good guy — decent man
- good-bye — a farewell.