8-letter words containing e, l, d
- oilseeds — Plural form of oilseed.
- old face — a type style that originated in the 18th century, characterized by little contrast between thick and thin strokes
- 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-line — following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
- old-shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
- old-time — belonging to or characteristic of old or former times, methods, ideas, etc.: old-time sailing ships; an old-time piano player.
- oldening — Present participle of olden.
- oldfield — Berna Eli [bur-nuh] /ˈbɜr nə/ (Show IPA), ("Barney") 1878–1946, U.S. racing-car driver.
- 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.
- oldtimer — An elderly person.
- oleander — a poisonous shrub, Nerium oleander, of the dogbane family, native to southern Eurasia, having evergreen leaves and showy clusters of pink, red, or white flowers, and widely cultivated as an ornamental.
- on-glide — a transitional sound produced by the vocal organs in moving from an inactive position or a previous sound to the articulatory position necessary for producing a following sound. Compare off-glide (def 1).
- opalized — made into an opal
- orielled — having an oriel window
- outdwell — to last longer than
- outfield — Baseball. the part of the field beyond the diamond. the positions played by the right, center, and left fielders. the outfielders considered as a group (contrasted with infield).
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- outlined — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outlived — Simple past tense and past participle of outlive.
- outslide — (poetic) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.
- outyield — (of a crop, country, etc) to yield more than
- overbold — Excessively bold.
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- overcold — too cold
- overfold — a fold in which one or both limbs have been inclined more than 90° from their original orientation
- overgild — to cover with gilding.
- overglad — too glad
- overhold — to value too highly
- overidle — too idle
- overlade — to overload (usually used in past participle overladen): a table overladen with rich food.
- overlaid — simple past tense of overlie.
- overland — by land; on terrain: to travel overland rather than by sea.
- overlard — to cover with lard
- overlend — to lend more money than is economical
- overlewd — too lewd
- overlied — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- overload — to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
- overlord — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overloud — too loud
- overmild — too mild
- oversold — simple past tense and past participle of oversell.
- oxidable — able to undergo oxidation
- pale dry — light in color and not sweet
- pale-dry — light-colored and medium-sweet: pale-dry ginger ale.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palleted — (of the binding of a book) stamped with the name of the binder.