8-letter words containing y, e, d, o
- doyennes — Plural form of doyenne.
- drollery — something whimsically amusing or funny.
- dropsley — a dish of very small dumplings made from a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning dropped in small pieces into broth.
- dry hole — any well drilled for oil or gas that does not yield enough to be commercially profitable.
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
- dyeworks — a factory producing dyes
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- ecdysone — an insect hormone that stimulates metamorphosis.
- elytroid — like an elytron
- embryoid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling an embryo.
- employed — Give work to (someone) and pay them for it.
- endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
- endogeny — Growth from within.
- endymion — a handsome youth who was visited every night by the moon goddess Selene, who loved him
- enhydros — a piece of chalcedony that contains water
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- eyedrops — Plural form of eyedrop.
- fogeydom — the state or disposition of a fogey
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forebody — the part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- geomyoid — relating to burrowing rodents of the genus Geomys
- goldenly — In a golden manner.
- good-bye — a farewell.
- goodbyes — Plural form of goodbye.
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- gynecoid — of or like a woman.
- gyrodyne — A kind of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system driven by its engine for takeoff and landing, as well as one or more conventional propellers to provide forward thrust during cruising flight.
- head boy — The head boy of a school is the boy who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- holyhead — a seaport on Holy Island in NW Wales.
- holytide — a time of religious observances.
- homebody — a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home.
- homodyne — of or relating to reception by a device that generates a varying voltage of the same or nearly the same frequency as the incoming carrier wave and combines it with the incoming signal for detection.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- hoorayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hooray.
- hydrogel — a gel whose liquid constituent is water.
- hydrogen — a colorless, odorless, flammable gas that combines chemically with oxygen to form water: the lightest of the known elements. Symbol: H; atomic weight: 1.00797; atomic number: 1; density: 0.0899 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- hyoidean — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- idealogy — Misspelling of ideology.
- ideology — the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
- idiotype — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
- idoneity — appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
- imployed — Simple past tense and past participle of imploy.
- iodyrite — a mineral, AgI, that is a naturally occurring form of silver iodide, is yellowish or greenish in colour, is found in parts of Central and South America, and is hexagonal in shape