8-letter words containing g, o, i, d
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- digitron — a type of tube, for displaying information, having a common anode and several cathodes shaped in the form of characters, which can be lit by a glow discharge
- diglycol — diethylene glycol.
- dimaggio — Joseph Paul ("Joe"; "Joltin' Joe") 1914–1999, U.S. baseball player.
- dingdong — Alternative spelling of ding-dong.
- diogenes — 412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.
- diogenic — 412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.
- dioxygen — (chemistry) the normal allotrope of oxygen having two atoms per molecule.
- dipthong — Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
- disgorge — to eject or throw out from the throat, mouth, or stomach; vomit forth.
- dislodge — to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
- disloign — to put at a distance
- dittoing — Present participle of ditto.
- dizygous — Dizygotic.
- dockings — Plural form of docking.
- dog iron — an andiron.
- dog nail — a nail having a head projecting to one side.
- dog tick — any of a variety of ticks, as the American dog tick, that commonly infest dogs and may transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever or tularemia to humans.
- dogeship — the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dogfight — a violent fight between dogs.
- dogmatic — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- dojigger — (informal) A thing whose name is not known; a whatsit or doohickey.
- dollying — Present participle of dolly.
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- dong hai — East China Sea.
- dongting — a lake in S China, in NE Hunan province: main outlet flows to the Yangtze; rice-growing in winter. Area: (in winter) 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- doodling — a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.
- dotingly — In a doting manner.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- 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.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- 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.
- encoding — (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- endowing — Present participle of endow.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- firedogs — Plural form of firedog.
- flooding — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
- foldings — Plural form of folding.
- foliaged — Having foliage.