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8-letter words containing o, d, a, l

  • floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
  • foldable — to bend (cloth, paper, etc.) over upon itself.
  • foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
  • foldback — (in multitrack recording) a process for returning a signal to a performer instantly
  • foldboat — faltboat.
  • folderal — Alternative spelling of folderol.
  • foliaged — Having foliage.
  • foliated — covered with or having leaves.
  • folkland — a former type of land tenure
  • fordable — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
  • foredeal — An advantage; benefit; profit.
  • forelady — a forewoman.
  • foreland — a cape, headland, or promontory.
  • foulards — Plural form of foulard.
  • frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
  • freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
  • galenoid — relating to or resembling galena
  • galloped — Simple past tense and past participle of gallop.
  • galopade — a lively round dance in duple time.
  • galoshed — Wearing galoshes.
  • gamboled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
  • ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
  • gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
  • gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
  • gatefold — foldout (def 1).
  • gesualdo — Don Carlo [dawn kahr-law] /dɔn ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), Prince of Venosa [ve-naw-zah] /vɛˈnɔ zɑ/ (Show IPA), c1560–1613, Italian composer.
  • gladiola — gladiolus (def 1).
  • gladioli — Plural form of gladiolus.
  • gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
  • glendora — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
  • godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
  • godolias — Gedaliah.
  • golconda — a ruined city in S India, near the modern city of Hyderabad: capital of a former Muslim kingdom; famous for its diamond cutting.
  • goldmarkKarl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Hungarian composer.
  • gondolas — Plural form of gondola.
  • gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
  • gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
  • hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
  • half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
  • halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
  • halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
  • hallooed — Simple past tense and past participle of halloo.
  • hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
  • hand log — chip log.
  • handhold — a grip with the hand or hands.
  • handload — to load (cartridges or other ammunition) by hand.
  • handloom — a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.
  • handroll — a Japanese dish consisting of a large cone of dried seaweed filled with cold rice and other ingredients, eaten with the fingers rather than chopsticks
  • haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
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