8-letter words containing a, d, e
- dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- donleavy — J(ames) P(atrick) born 1926, U.S. novelist.
- doorcase — the finish frame of a doorway.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- dorothea — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- dovetail — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- downtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like downward from a furnace, opening, etc.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- drabbest — Superlative form of drab.
- drabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of drabble.
- drabbler — a piece of canvas fixed to the bottom of a sail to give it a greater area
- drabbles — Plural form of drabble.
- drabness — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- dracaena — any treelike tropical plant of the genus Dracaena, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy leaves.
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- draggers — Plural form of dragger.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragonné — shaped like a dragon
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drawable — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dream on — It isn't true
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamers — Plural form of dreamer.
- dreamery — the dream world
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamier — Comparative form of dreamy.