8-letter words containing l, o, n, d
- mollendo — a seaport in S Peru.
- monocled — an eyeglass for one eye.
- moorland — an area of moors, especially country abounding in heather.
- moreland — Archaic form of moorland.
- mossland — a land covered in peat
- moulding — a growth of minute fungi forming on vegetable or animal matter, commonly as a downy or furry coating, and associated with decay or dampness.
- nailfold — the fold of skin at the base of the fingernail
- neckmold — Alt form neckmould.
- ninefold — nine times as great or as much.
- nodality — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- nodalize — to make something nodal or concentrated at a point
- nodulose — (biology) having nodules.
- nodulous — having nodules.
- nonadult — a person who is not an adult
- nonfluid — a substance that is not a fluid
- nonideal — (of a gas or solution) differing in behavior from that of an ideal gas or solution.
- nonmodal — not modal
- nonsolid — any substance that is not in a solid state, ie a liquid or a gas
- nontidal — Not tidal.
- nonvalid — not valid; invalid
- noodling — to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, especially as a warm-up exercise.
- nordland — a county in N Norway. 14,797 sq. mi. (38,325 sq. km). County seat: Bodö.
- noveldom — the realm of fiction; novels collectively
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- oberland — a mountain region in central Switzerland, mostly in S Bern canton.
- obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- oil find — the discovery of oil deposits underground or under the sea
- oil sand — a sand or sandstone containing oil or tarry residue in the pore spaces.
- oilsands — Plural form of oilsand.
- old hand — a person who is experienced in or familiar with a subject, area, procedure, etc.: The guide you just hired is an old hand at leading safaris.
- old moon — waning moon.
- old nick — the devil; Satan.
- old-line — following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
- oldening — Present participle of olden.
- 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).
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- ordalian — relating to trial by ordeal
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- outlined — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- overland — by land; on terrain: to travel overland rather than by sea.
- overlend — to lend more money than is economical
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
- parlando — sung or played as though speaking or reciting (a musical direction).
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pindolol — a synthetic beta blocker, C 1 4 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used in the management of hypertension.
- playdown — a play-off.
- plodding — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- poll end — the hub holding the sail arms of a windmill.