8-letter words containing a, d, g
- darkling — in the dark or night
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- datagram — a self-contained unit of data transmitted in a packet-switched network
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- day girl — a girl who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- daylight — Daylight is the natural light that there is during the day, before it gets dark.
- dazzling — Something that is dazzling is very impressive or beautiful.
- dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- debagged — to depants.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- 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.
- 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
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- dekalogy — a series of ten related works
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- delegacy — an elected standing committee at some British universities
- delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
- deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
- demagogy — You can refer to a method of political rule as demagogy if you disapprove of it because you think it involves appealing to people's emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demorage — Obsolete form of demurrage.
- den haag — Den [den] /dɛn/ (Show IPA) a Dutch name of The Hague.
- denegate — (obsolete, transitive) To deny.
- deranged — Someone who is deranged behaves in a wild and uncontrolled way, often as a result of mental illness.
- deranger — a person or thing that deranges
- deranges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derange.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract