8-letter words containing a, d, e
- deathbed — If someone is on their deathbed, they are in a bed and about to die.
- deathday — the day or the anniversary of the day of a person's death.
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- 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
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decadent — If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decagram — dekagram
- decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalled — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.
- decanoic — Of or pertaining to decanoic acid or its derivatives; capric.
- decanted — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- decaying — rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing
- deceased — The deceased is used to refer to a particular person or to particular people who have recently died.
- deceases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decease.
- decenary — of or relating to a tithing
- decennia — a period of ten years; a decade.
- deciduae — Plural form of decidua.
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- deckhand — A deckhand is a person who does the cleaning and other work on the deck of a ship.
- deckhead — the undersurface of a deck.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declared — stated openly, officially, or formally
- declarer — a person who declares
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- declawed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaw.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining