8-letter words containing a, d, e
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- diredawa — a city in E Ethiopia.
- disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- disabler — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disables — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disable.
- disabuse — to free (a person) from deception or error.
- disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- disannex — to separate (a place or thing that was formally annexed or joined to another)
- disarmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarm.
- disarmer — A person who advocates or campaigns for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- discased — to take the case or covering from; uncase.
- disclame — (obsolete) To disclaim; to expel.
- disdaine — Obsolete spelling of disdain.
- diseased — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
- diseases — Plural form of disease.
- disgavel — to free from the tenure of gavelkind: to disgavel an estate.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- dismayed — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- dispread — to spread out
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distaste — dislike; disinclination.
- disusage — Gradual cessation of use or custom; disuse.
- disvalue — disesteem; disparagement.
- dithecal — having two thecae or receptacles
- divagate — to wander; stray.
- divalent — having a valence of two, as the ferrous ion, Fe ++ .
- divalike — (literally) like a spoiled diva.
- djellaba — a loose-fitting hooded gown or robe worn by men in North Africa.
- dna test — a test of a sample of DNA to determine whether it matches particular characteristics
- doberman — Doberman pinscher.
- docmaker — (text, tool, product) An application for the Apple Macintosh which creates stand-alone, self-running document files. It features scrollable and re-sizable windows, graphics, varied text styles and fonts, full printing capability, and links to other software and information. Companies such as Federal Express, GTE, Hewlett-Packard, Iomega, Adobe Systems, Inc., Apple Computer and Aladdin use DOCMaker to distribute disk-based documentation with their products.
- dog flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- dogeared — (in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- dogfaces — Plural form of dogface.
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- dollared — having many dollars; wealthy
- dollface — a person having a smooth, unblemished complexion and small, regular features.
- dolmades — Plural form of dolmade.
- dome car — a railroad passenger car having a dome in its roof. Compare dome (def 7).
- domesday — doomsday.