8-letter words containing m, a, d, o
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- homaloid — a geometrical plane, a flat surface or space
- homeland — one's native land.
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- horn-mad — furiously enraged; intensely angry.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idiogram — Karyogram.
- lambdoid — having the shape of the Greek capital lambda.
- landform — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- laodamas — a son of Eteocles who defended Thebes against the Epigoni, killed Aegialeus, and was killed by Alcmaeon.
- laodamia — a daughter of Acastus who committed suicide so that she could join her husband, Protesilaus, in the underworld.
- laomedon — a king of Troy and the father of Priam, for whom the walls of Troy were built by Apollo and Poseidon.
- lemonade — a beverage consisting of lemon juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- lombardi — Vince(nt Thomas) 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
- lombardo — Guy (Albert) 1902–77, U.S. bandleader, born in Canada.
- lombardy — a region and former kingdom in N Italy. 9190 sq. mi. (23,800 sq. km).
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- maddocks — Plural form of maddock.
- madhouse — a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- madisons — Plural form of madison.
- madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- maidhood — maidenhood.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- maindoor — a door giving access to a house from the street
- malgrado — in spite of
- malodour — Alternative spelling of malodor.
- mancando — in a fading manner
- mandator — a person who gives a mandate.
- mandingo — a member of any of a number of peoples forming an extensive linguistic group in western Africa.
- mandioca — cassava.
- mandolin — a musical instrument with a pear-shaped wooden body and a fretted neck.
- mandorla — A pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art.
- manifold — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
- manucode — any of various birds of paradise of the New Guinea region, having dark, metallic plumage.
- manyfold — by many times; by multiples: The state's highway expenses have increased manyfold in the past decade.
- maradona — Diego (dɪˈeɪɡəʊ) (Armando). born 1960, Argentinian footballer and manager: his clubs included Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, and Napoli; scored 34 goals in 91 internationals (1977–94); under his captaincy Argentina won the World Cup in 1986
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
- marooned — to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers.
- mastodon — a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- mastoids — of or relating to the mastoid process.
- matadora — A female matador.
- matadore — Dated form of matador.