8-letter words containing o, d, e
- al desko — (of a meal, esp lunch) at one's desk at one's place of work
- al-obeid — El Obeid
- aldolase — an enzyme present in the body that breaks down fructose into triose sugars
- aldoxime — an oxime formed by reaction between hydroxylamine and an aldehyde
- alkoxide — a compound formed by the removal of a proton from an alcohol
- allotted — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- almohade — a member of a group of puritanical Muslims, originally Berbers, who arose in S Morocco in the 12th century as a reaction against the corrupt Almoravides and who ruled Spain and all Maghrib from about 1147 to after 1213
- amberoid — a synthetic amber made by compressing pieces of amber and other resins together at a high temperature
- amidogen — a compound radical, NH2, derived from ammonia
- amoeboid — of, related to, or resembling amoebae
- amounted — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- anadrome — A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.
- anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anderson — a river in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories, rising in lakes north of Great Bear Lake and flowing west and north to the Beaufort Sea. Length: about 580 km (360 miles)
- androgen — any of several steroids, produced as hormones by the testes or made synthetically, that promote development of male sexual organs and male secondary sexual characteristics
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
- angeldom — The world of angels.
- anglepod — an American wild flowering plant with angular pods, belonging to the milkweed family
- anodized — coated with a protective oxide film by electrolysis
- anodynes — Plural form of anodyne.
- anointed — chosen officially to do an important job
- antidote — An antidote is a chemical substance that stops or controls the effect of a poison.
- antinode — a point at which the amplitude of one of the two kinds of displacement in a standing wave has maximum value. Generally the other kind of displacement has its minimum value at this point
- antipode — the exact or direct opposite
- apodoses — Plural form of apodosis.
- approved — An approved method or course of action is officially accepted as appropriate in a particular situation.
- arboured — situated in, or as if in, an arbour
- arguendo — (legal) for the sake of argument.
- arillode — a false aril, developing from an opening in the covering of the ovule instead of from its stalk
- armoured — Armoured vehicles are fitted with a hard metal covering in order to protect them from gunfire and other missiles.
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- art deco — Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. It uses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
- asmodeus — (in Jewish demonology) prince of the demons
- asphodel — any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
- assoiled — Simple past tense and past participle of assoil.
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- atheldom — (rare) The state or condition of being athel or noble; nobility.
- athetoid — (symptom) characterised by athetosis.
- atomised — to reduce to atoms.
- atomized — Simple past tense and past participle of atomize.
- audioone — (tool, music) Digital recording and editing software developed by BizTrack Software Development for the dance, music, and audio industries. AudioOne includes a waveform recorder that allows signal manipulation, editing, and recording.
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autocade — a procession or parade of automobiles; motorcade.
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocode — (language) 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER. 2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM 705.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.