8-letter words containing n, o, s, d
- dionysia — The orgiastic Ancient Greek festivals seasonally held in honor of Dionysus, which evolved into Greek comedy and tragedy.
- dionysus — the god of fertility, wine, and drama; Bacchus.
- dipnoous — having both lungs and gills for breathing
- disadorn — To deprive of ornaments.
- disbound — (of a book) having the binding torn or loose.
- discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- disenrol — to remove from a register
- dishonor — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- disjoins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disjoin.
- disjoint — to separate or disconnect the joints or joinings of.
- disloign — to put at a distance
- dismount — to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.
- disowned — Simple past tense and past participle of disown.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disunion — a severance of union; separation; disjunction.
- division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- dockings — Plural form of docking.
- dolphins — Plural form of dolphin.
- dominoes — a flat, thumbsized, rectangular block, the face of which is divided into two parts, each either blank or bearing from one to six pips or dots: 28 such pieces form a complete set.
- 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.
- donators — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- donelson — Fort Donelson.
- doneness — the condition of being cooked to a desired degree: steak prepared to the doneness ordered by the customer.
- doomsman — Archaic. a judge.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- dowfness — the quality or characteristic of being dowf
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downless — the soft, first plumage of many young birds.
- downmost — in the lowest position
- downrush — (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- doyennes — Plural form of doyenne.
- doziness — The state of being dozy.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dragoons — Plural form of dragoon.
- drnovsek — Janez . 1950–2008, Slovenian politician, president of Slovenia (2002–07)
- dromonds — Plural form of dromond.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.