8-letter words containing a, d, i, e, n
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- detained — Simple past tense and past participle of detain.
- detainee — A detainee is someone who is held prisoner by a government because of his or her political views or activities.
- detainer — the wrongful withholding of the property of another person
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- deviance — the act or state of being deviant
- deviancy — deviant quality or state.
- deviants — Plural form of deviant.
- devonian — of, denoting, or formed in the fourth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, lasting 60-70 million years during which amphibians first appeared
- diactine — a sponge spicule having two rays that develop in different directions from a single point of origin
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- diamante — Diamante jewellery is made from small pieces of cut glass which look like diamonds.
- diamonte — A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.
- dianetic — Of or pertaining to dianetics.
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diazines — Plural form of diazine.
- 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
- dimensia — Misspelling of dementia.
- dimentia — Misspelling of dementia.
- diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- disannex — to separate (a place or thing that was formally annexed or joined to another)
- disdaine — Obsolete spelling of disdain.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- divalent — having a valence of two, as the ferrous ion, Fe ++ .
- dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- 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.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- 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
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- dynamise — Alternative spelling of dynamize.
- dynamite — A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
- dynamize — Give power or energy to; make dynamic.
- echidnae — Plural form of echidna.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- endbrain — (neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the forebrain; the telencephalon.