... eight letter words you can spell with hex digits (and the decimal digits 0,1 and 5, to be read as the letters O, I and S)
grep '^[[:xdigit:]ois]\{8\}$' /usr/dict/words
| abaissed | |
| abbesses | The plural of abbess, the superior of a convent |
| abscissa | The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis |
| abscisse | |
| accessed | |
| accesses | |
| acidific | |
| acidosis | Abnormally high acidity of body fluids |
| assessed | |
| assessee | |
| assesses | |
| bedsides | |
| boadicea | Queen of the Iceni |
| bocaccio | Author of the Decameron |
| cabooses | The plural of caboose, the last car on a freight train |
| caddiced | |
| caddised | |
| cascaded | |
| cascades | |
| cassidid | A kind of beetle |
| cicisbeo | A married woman's lover or escort |
| coccidia | |
| codified | |
| codifies | |
| deceased | |
| deceases | |
| diabasic | |
| diiodide | A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine |
| dioceses | |
| diseased | |
| diseases | |
| disseise | |
| dodecade | |
| edifices | |
| fiascoes | |
| ficoides | Resembling a ficus (fig) plant |
| idiocies | |
| isidioid | |
| isidiose | |
| obsessed | |
| obsesses | |
| offsides | |
| ossified | |
| ossifies | |
| saccadic | |
| sassafac | Common name for Sassafras albidum |
| seasides | |
| seedbeds | |
| seedcase | |
| sofabeds | A philosophical impossibilty - It's both an bed and a sofa |
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