8-letter words containing i, s, o, a
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disavows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disavow.
- disfavor — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- dishoard — to put previously withheld (money) into circulation
- disloyal — false to one's obligations or allegiances; not loyal; faithless; treacherous.
- disposal — availability for use
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- docimasy — the close examination of a person or substance in order to determine nature, quality and characteristics, formerly used to describe the evaluation of aspirants for public office or citizenship in Ancient Greece, now used of assaying metallic ores
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- dorsalis — dorsal1 .
- doxastic — Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dyslogia — inability to express ideas because of faulty reasoning or speech, due to a mental disorder.
- dysosmia — an impairment of the sense of smell.
- 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.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- edacious — devouring; voracious; consuming.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- enations — Plural form of enation.
- episomal — (biology) Pertaining to an episome or DNA fragments not contained within a chromosome.
- escorial — a village in central Spain, northwest of Madrid: site of an architectural complex containing a monastery, palace, and college, built by Philip II between 1563 and 1584
- esthonia — Estonia
- estonian — of Estonia
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- evasions — Plural form of evasion.
- factions — Plural form of faction.
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- farinose — yielding farina.
- fasciola — (anatomy) A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
- fasciole — one of the spine-bearing bands of tubercles found on spatangoid sea-urchins
- fashions — Plural form of fashion.
- fashiony — of or relating to fashion; fashionable; trendy
- fashious — troublesome, causing worry
- favonius — the ancient Roman personification of the west wind.
- favosite — any of numerous corals of the extinct genus Favosites, most common during the Silurian and Devonian periods, having polygonal cells with rows of pores in the walls.
- fibromas — Plural form of fibroma.
- fixators — Plural form of fixator.
- flokatis — Plural form of flokati.
- foamiest — Superlative form of foamy.
- foilsman — a person who fences with a foil.
- foliages — Plural form of foliage.
- foresaid — aforementioned; aforesaid.
- foresail — the lowermost sail on a foremast.
- fostoria — a city in N Ohio.
- foxtails — Plural form of foxtail.
- fusional — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- galliots — Plural form of galliot.