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8-letter words containing s, e, o, d

  • odysseus — king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
  • odysseys — Plural form of odyssey.
  • oersteds — Plural form of oersted.
  • offsider — an assistant or helper.
  • oilseeds — Plural form of oilseed.
  • old rose — rose color with a purplish or grayish cast.
  • old shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
  • old west — the western region of the U.S., especially in the frontier period of the 19th century.
  • old-shoe — a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious: Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.
  • oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
  • oldsters — Plural form of oldster.
  • onesided — Biased, only showing one side or point of view on an argument.
  • oostende — a seaport in NW Belgium.
  • openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
  • operands — Plural form of operand.
  • opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
  • orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
  • ossified — hardened like or into bone.
  • outdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdate.
  • outdress — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • outrides — Plural form of outride.
  • outsider — a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
  • outsides — Plural form of outside.
  • outsized — Of an unusually large size.
  • outslide — (poetic) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.
  • outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
  • outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
  • overdoes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdo.
  • overdogs — Plural form of overdog.
  • overdose — An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
  • overdubs — Plural form of overdub.
  • overdust — to dust too much
  • overseed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
  • overside — over the side, as of a ship.
  • oversold — simple past tense and past participle of oversell.
  • oversuds — to produce too much lather
  • overused — to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
  • oxidised — to convert (an element) into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
  • oystered — veneered with matched flitches having a figure of concentric rings.
  • paludose — growing or living in marshes
  • passcode — password (def 2).
  • pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
  • peasecod — the pod of the pea.
  • polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • poolside — the lounging area around a swimming pool.
  • portside — situated on the port side
  • poseidon — the ancient Greek god of the sea, with the power to cause earthquakes, identified by the Romans with Neptune.
  • postcode — an official code used by the post office, similar to the U.S. zip code, that adds numbers and letters to addresses to expedite mail delivery.
  • postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
  • postdive — following a dive, esp a scuba dive
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