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8-letter words containing n, o, d, i

  • demonism — belief in the existence and power of demons
  • demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
  • demonize — If people demonize someone, they convince themselves that that person is evil.
  • demoting — Present participle of demote.
  • demotion — to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.
  • dendroid — freely branching; arborescent; treelike
  • denotify — (transitive, India) To repeal the categorization of (a tribe) as criminal under the w Criminal Tribes Act.
  • denoting — to be a mark or sign of; indicate: A fever often denotes an infection.
  • denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
  • deposing — Present participle of depose.
  • deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
  • derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
  • desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
  • detoxing — Present participle of detox.
  • deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
  • devision — Obsolete spelling of division.
  • devonian — of, denoting, or formed in the fourth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, lasting 60-70 million years during which amphibians first appeared
  • devoting — to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.
  • devotion — Devotion is great love, affection, or admiration for someone.
  • dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
  • diaconal — of or associated with a deacon or the diaconate
  • diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
  • diagonal — A diagonal line or movement goes in a sloping direction, for example, from one corner of a square across to the opposite corner.
  • diamonds — one of the four suits in an ordinary pack of cards bearing red lozenge-shapes symbols
  • diamonte — A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.
  • dianodal — that passes through nodes
  • diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
  • diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
  • diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
  • diatonic — of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music
  • diazinon — a type of strong insecticide
  • diborane — a colorless gas with an unpleasant odor, B 2 H 6 , used in the synthesis of organic boron compounds as a dope to introduce boron and as a polymerization catalyst for ethylene.
  • dication — (chemistry) Any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
  • dictions — style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
  • die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
  • dies non — a day on which no courts can be held.
  • dig into — to penetrate by or as by digging
  • 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
  • dihedron — a figure formed by two intersecting planes.
  • diketone — a compound containing two C=O groups, as CH 3 COCOCH 3 .
  • dilation — the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
  • dilution — the act of diluting or the state of being diluted.
  • diluvion — a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.
  • dine out — to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
  • dingdong — Alternative spelling of ding-dong.
  • dinitro- — (of a chemical) containing two nitrogen groups in place of two hydrogen atoms
  • dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
  • diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
  • diogenes — 412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.
  • diogenic — 412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.
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