8-letter words containing a, b, e, d
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- caballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.
- cabbaged — Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
- caboched — (of an image of the head of a beast) having an exposed face but a concealed neck
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cambered — Having camber.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- clubhead — the head of a golf club
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- d'albert — Eugen [German oi-geyn] /German ɔɪˈgeɪn/ (Show IPA), or Eugène [French œ-zhen] /French œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Francis Charles, 1864–1932, German-French pianist and composer, born in Scotland.
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- dabsters — Plural form of dabster.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- dahabeah — a houseboat used on the Nile
- dahabieh — A traditional Egyptian sailing-boat.
- damnable — You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal.
- darbyite — a member of the Plymouth Brethren.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- database — A database is a collection of data that is stored in a computer and that can easily be used and added to.
- datacube — Alternative spelling of data cube.
- dateable — a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- datebook — a notebook in which a person keeps a personal record of daily events, appointments, etc
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- de bakey — Michael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.
- deadbeat — If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society.
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- dealbate — having a white exterior or covering
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- deathbed — If someone is on their deathbed, they are in a bed and about to die.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debagged — to depants.
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debarred — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debation — Debating.
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- delibate — to take a small taste of (a liquid)
- denebola — the second brightest star in the constellation Leo. Visual magnitude: 2.14; spectral type: A3V
- deniable — able to be denied; questionable