8-letter words containing a, d, e
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- dedalian — relating to Daedalus
- dedicant — a person who devotes or dedicates
- dedicate — If you say that someone has dedicated themselves to something, you approve of the fact that they have decided to give a lot of time and effort to it because they think that it is important.
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- deep-sea — Deep-sea activities take place in the areas of the sea that are a long way from the coast.
- deermeat — Alternative spelling of deer meat.
- deeryard — a place where deer congregate to spend the winter
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- defanged — to remove the fangs of: to defang a snake.
- defatted — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- defeated — having suffered defeat; beaten
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- defecate — When people and animals defecate, they get rid of waste matter from their body through their anus.
- deferral — Deferral means the same as deferment.
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
- defilade — protection provided by obstacles against enemy crossfire from the rear, or observation
- definate — Misspelling of definite.
- deflated — having lost confidence, hope, or optimism
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflate.
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- defoamer — anything which removes foam or prevents foam from forming
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- defrayed — to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
- degassed — to free from gas.
- degasser — A degasser is a device which removes gas from drilling mud.
- deglazed — Simple past tense and past participle of deglaze.
- degraded — disgraced, debased, depraved, etc.
- degrader — One who, or that which, degrades.
- degrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degrade.
- degrease — to remove grease from
- deianira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm
- deicidal — a person who kills a god.
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- dekalogy — a series of ten related works
- delannoy — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1898–1962, French composer.
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delative — noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place down from which.
- delaunay — Robert (rɔbɛr). 1885–1941, French painter, whose abstract use of colour characterized Orphism, an attempt to introduce more colour into austere forms of Cubism
- delaware — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living near the Delaware River
- delayers — Plural form of delayer.
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.