8-letter words starting with do
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- dopester — a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- dopplers — Plural form of doppler.
- dordogne — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- doridoid — a genus of shell-less gastropod
- dorkland — an offensive name for Auckland
- dormancy — the state of being dormant.
- dormered — Having a dormer.
- dormeuse — mobcap.
- dormient — sleeping; dormant.
- dormouse — any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- dornbirn — a city in W Austria, in Vorarlberg. Pop: 42 301 (2001)
- dornicks — Plural form of dornick.
- dorothea — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”.
- dorsalis — dorsal1 .
- dorsally — of, relating to, or situated at the back, or dorsum.
- dorticos — Osvaldo [aws-vahl-daw] /ɔsˈvɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado) 1919–83, Cuban lawyer and statesman: president 1959–76.
- dortmund — a city in W Germany.
- dosology — Posology; the study of dosages of drugs.
- dosseret — a supplementary capital or thickened abacus, as in Byzantine architecture.
- dossiers — Plural form of dossier.
- dot ball — a ball from which a run is not scored
- 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.
- dot-coms — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- dotation — an endowment.
- dotingly — In a doting manner.
- dotterel — any of several plovers usually inhabiting upland areas, especially Eudromias morinellus, of Europe and Asia.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- double x — James Emory ("Jimmie"; "Double X"; "The Beast") 1907–67, U.S. baseball player.
- double-o — careful scrutiny or close inspection.
- double-u — the letter w.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.
- doublets — Plural form of doublet.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubloon — a former gold coin of Spain and Spanish America, originally equal to two escudos but fluctuating in value.
- doublure — an ornamental lining of a book cover.
- doubters — Plural form of doubter.
- doubtful — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- douceurs — Plural form of douceur.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- doughboy — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- doughnut — a small cake of sweetened or, sometimes, unsweetened dough fried in deep fat, typically shaped like a ring or, when prepared with a filling, a ball.
- douglass — Frederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- 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.
- dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.