8-letter words containing a, d, l
- dollyman — a technician who moves or pushes the camera dolly during or between shots.
- dolmades — Plural form of dolmade.
- domanial — of or relating to a domain
- donleavy — J(ames) P(atrick) born 1926, U.S. novelist.
- doolally — Temporarily deranged or feebleminded.
- doornail — a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
- dorkland — an offensive name for Auckland
- dorsalis — dorsal1 .
- dorsally — of, relating to, or situated at the back, or dorsum.
- dot ball — a ball from which a run is not scored
- douglass — Frederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
- dovetail — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downland — An area of rolling downs, often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone.
- download — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- 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.
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- 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).
- 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.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamily — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- drearily — causing sadness or gloom.
- drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- drucilla — a female given name.
- drusilla — a female given name.
- dry lake — a tract of land in a desert region over which a shallow lake is formed during the rainy season or after prolonged heavy rains.
- dry land — terra firma, earth
- dry-salt — to cure or preserve (meat, hides, etc.) by drying and salting.
- dry-wall — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drysdale — Sir George Russell. 1912–81, Australian painter, esp of landscapes
- drywalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drywall.
- du sable — Jean Baptiste Pointe [zhahn ba-teest pwant] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist pwɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1745?–1818, U.S. pioneer trader, born in Haiti: early settler of Chicago.
- dual-607 — (language) An early system on the IBM 701.
- dual-use — dual-purpose; specif., designating or of machinery, technology, etc. having both civilian and military applications