8-letter words containing a, d, e
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diarbekr — Diyarbakir.
- diarised — Simple past tense and past participle of diarise.
- diarized — Simple past tense and past participle of diarize.
- diarrhea — If someone has diarrhea, a lot of liquid feces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- diastase — any of a group of enzymes that hydrolyse starch to maltose. They are present in germinated barley and in the pancreas
- diastema — an abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in a bodily organ or part
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- diastyle — having columns about three diameters apart
- diatreme — a volcanic vent produced in a solid rock structure by the explosive energy of gases in magmas.
- diatribe — A diatribe is an angry speech or article which is extremely critical of someone's ideas or activities.
- diazepam — a chemical compound used as a minor tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and to treat acute epilepsy. Formula: C16H13ClN2O
- diazines — Plural form of diazine.
- diazoles — Plural form of diazole.
- diborane — a colorless gas with an unpleasant odor, B 2 H 6 , used in the synthesis of organic boron compounds as a dope to introduce boron and as a polymerization catalyst for ethylene.
- dicentra — any Asian or North American plant of the genus Dicentra, such as bleeding heart and Dutchman's-breeches, having finely divided leaves and ornamental clusters of drooping flowers: family Fumariaceae
- dickhead — If someone calls a man a dickhead, they are saying that they think he is very stupid.
- dictated — to say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record: to dictate some letters to a secretary.
- dictates — authoritative commands or rules
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- die away — If a sound dies away, it gradually becomes weaker or fainter and finally disappears completely.
- die back — If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
- die game — to die bravely and still fighting
- die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
- die-cast — formed by die casting.
- die-hard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- dielytra — a member of a genus of flowering herbaceous plants including bleeding heart
- diemaker — someone who makes dies
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- diggable — capable of being dug
- digitate — Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dilatate — dilated; broadened.
- dilative — serving or tending to dilate.
- dilemmas — A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, esp. equally undesirable ones.
- dime bag — a packet containing an amount of an illegal drug selling for ten dollars.
- dimensia — Misspelling of dementia.
- dimentia — Misspelling of dementia.
- dimmable — Able to be dimmed; able to have illumination decreased in brightness.
- diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped
- dipteral — dipterous.