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.