8-letter words containing o, d, i
- dominant — ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence: dominant in the chain of command.
- dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
- domineer — Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way.
- dominica — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- dominick — Animal Husbandry. Dominique.
- dominion — the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.
- dominium — complete power to use, to enjoy, and to dispose of property at will.
- 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.
- domitian — (Titus Flavius Domitianus Augustus) a.d. 51–96, Roman emperor 81–96.
- domotics — Robotic technology for use in the home.
- donating — Present participle of donate.
- donation — an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
- 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.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- dong hai — East China Sea.
- dongting — a lake in S China, in NE Hunan province: main outlet flows to the Yangtze; rice-growing in winter. Area: (in winter) 3900 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- donicker — bathroom; toilet.
- doodling — a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.
- doornail — a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
- doorsill — the sill of a doorway.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- doridoid — a genus of shell-less gastropod
- dormient — sleeping; dormant.
- dornbirn — a city in W Austria, in Vorarlberg. Pop: 42 301 (2001)
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- dorsalis — dorsal1 .
- dorticos — Osvaldo [aws-vahl-daw] /ɔsˈvɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado) 1919–83, Cuban lawyer and statesman: president 1959–76.
- dossiers — Plural form of dossier.
- dot file — (operating system, convention) A Unix application program configuration file. On Unix, files named with a leading dot are not normally shown in directory listings. Many programs define one or more dot files in which startup or configuration information may be optionally recorded; a user can customise the program's behaviour by creating the appropriate file in the current or home directory. Dot files tend to proliferate - with every nontrivial application program defining at least one, a user's home directory can be filled with scores of dot files, without the user really being aware of it. Common examples are .profile, .cshrc, .login, .emacs, .mailrc, .forward, .newsrc, .plan, .rhosts, .sig, .xsession. See also profile, rc file.
- dotation — an endowment.
- dotingly — In a doting manner.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- douzieme — (in Swiss watchmaking) the 12th part of a ligne, used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- dovekies — Plural form of dovekie.
- dovelike — Similar to a dove.
- dovetail — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- dowdiest — Superlative form of dowdy.
- dowdyish — Like a dowdy; frumpy.
- dowdyism — the quality of being dowdy
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- downhill — down the slope of a hill; downward.