8-letter words containing i, o, d, u
- obliquid — aimed in an oblique direction
- occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- odiously — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
- oil drum — a metal drum used to contain or transport oil
- oncidium — any of numerous tropical American orchids of the genus Oncidium, having clusters of flowers showing great variety in size, form, and color.
- 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
- outbuild — (transitive) To build more or better than.
- outchide — to exceed in chiding
- outdoing — Present participle of outdo.
- outdrink — To drink more than someone else.
- outdrive — Drive a golf ball farther than (another player).
- 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).
- outguide — a folder in a filing system
- outlined — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outlived — Simple past tense and past participle of outlive.
- outrider — a mounted attendant riding before or beside a carriage.
- 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.
- outyield — (of a crop, country, etc) to yield more than
- podetium — (in certain lichens) a stalk bearing an apothecium.
- pompidou — Georges Jean Raymond [zhawrzh zhahn rey-mawn] /ʒɔrʒ ʒɑ̃ reɪˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1911–74, French political leader: prime minister 1962–68; president 1969–74.
- pounding — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- preludio — a musical prelude
- proudish — rather proud
- pudovkin — Vsevolod Ilarionovich [fsye-vuh-luh t ee-luh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /ˈfsyɛ və lət i lə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, Russian motion-picture director.
- puruloid — resembling pus.
- ride out — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- round in — to haul in on (a line)
- rounding — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- rudolf i — 1218–91, king of Germany and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1273–91: founder of the Hapsburg dynasty.
- sciuroid — sciurine.
- siluroid — a freshwater fish of the family Siluridae
- sinusoid — a curve described by the equation y = a sin x, the ordinate being proportional to the sine of the abscissa.
- soliquid — a semisolid, semiliquid solution
- solitude — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- sounding — emitting or producing a sound or sounds.
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- squaloid — of, relating to, or like a shark, or specifically the dogfish (Squalidae) family of sharks
- studious — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- subaudio — (of a sound) low frequency
- subhyoid — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- suboxide — the oxide of an element that contains the smallest proportion of oxygen.