8-letter words containing a, d, e
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- 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.
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- dabsters — Plural form of dabster.
- daedalic — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- daedalid — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Attica from the middle to the end of the 7th century b.c., characterized chiefly by the use of the black-figure style in painting and a narrative treatment of subject matter.
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- daemonic — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- dagenham — part of the Greater London borough of Barking and Dagenham: engineering and chemicals
- dagestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daggered — a short, swordlike weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing.
- dago red — a cheap red wine, especially a jug wine of Italian origin.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- dahabeah — a houseboat used on the Nile
- dahabieh — A traditional Egyptian sailing-boat.
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- daidzein — an antioxidant and type of isoflavone found in soy products
- daimones — disembodied souls
- daintier — Comparative form of dainty.
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- dairymen — Plural form of dairyman.
- daladier — Édouard (edwar). 1884–1970, French radical socialist statesman; premier of France (1933; 1934; 1938–40) and signatory of the Munich Pact (1938)
- dalcroze — Jaques-Dalcroze.
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- damasked — a reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, or wool, woven with patterns.
- damasken — Alternative form of damascene.
- damastes — Procrustes.
- damehood — The fact or condition of being a dame.
- damewort — Hesperis matronalis, a herbaceous mustard.
- damietta — a town in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta: important medieval commercial centre
- damnable — You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal.
- damndest — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- dampened — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- danaides — the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom
- dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
- dancette — an ornamental zigzag, as in a molding.
- dancetty — having a zigzag pattern
- dandered — Simple past tense and past participle of dander.
- danegeld — the tax first levied in the late 9th century in Anglo-Saxon England to provide protection money for or to finance forces to oppose Viking invaders
- daneweed — an alternative name for a danewort