8-letter words containing a, d, e
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytaler — a worker who is appointed and paid on a daily basis
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- de bakey — Michael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.
- de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
- de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- de plano — without argument.
- deaconed — Simple past tense and past participle of deacon.
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
- dead arm — temporary loss of sensation in the arm, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dead end — If a street is a dead end, there is no way out at one end of it.
- dead key — a key on the keyboard of a typewriter which does not automatically advance the carriage when depressed
- dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dead man — Building Trades. a log, concrete block, etc., buried in the ground as an anchor.
- dead men — empty bottles
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- dead sea — a lake between Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, now 420 m (1378 ft) below sea level; originally 390 m (1285 ft): the lowest lake in the world, with no outlet and very high salinity; outline, esp at the southern end, reduced considerably in recent years. Area: originally about 950 sq km (365 sq miles); by 2003 about 625 sq km (240 sq miles)
- dead set — absolutely
- dead-end — terminating in a dead end: a dead-end street.
- 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.
- deadened — Simple past tense and past participle of deaden.
- deadener — to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
- deadeyes — Plural form of deadeye.
- deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
- deadhead — A deadhead is someone who uses a free ticket to see a show, or for a plane or train trip.
- deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
- deadline — A deadline is a time or date before which a particular task must be finished or a particular thing must be done.
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- deadwood — dead trees or branches
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- deaerate — to take air out of (something)
- deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.
- dealbate — having a white exterior or covering
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted