8-letter words containing p, o, d, i
- diprotic — (of an acid) having two transferable protons.
- dipsosis — (medicine) Any condition characterized by excessive thirst.
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- dipthong — Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
- dish top — a circular table top upturned at the edge.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposal — availability for use
- disposed — having a certain inclination or disposition; inclined (usually followed by to or an infinitive): a man disposed to like others.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- disposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispose.
- disposit — (transitive) To deposit.
- disproof — the act of disproving.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- dogeship — the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dolphins — Plural form of dolphin.
- 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.
- 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.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- 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.
- dropkick — (football) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drypoint — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopic — Dystopian.
- endpoint — The final stage of a period or process.
- episodic — Containing or consisting of a series of loosely connected parts or events.
- epoxides — Plural form of epoxide.
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- fishpond — a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.
- fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
- gospodin — a title of respect corresponding to Mr.
- gossiped — idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
- groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- hemipode — button quail.
- hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
- hydropic — dropsical.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- idiotype — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
- imploded — Simple past tense and past participle of implode.