8-letter words containing a, d, p
- data cap — a limit imposed on the amount of data that can be transferred to an electronic device
- data pen — a device for reading or scanning magnetically coded data on labels, packets, etc
- datapost — an express service offered by the Royal Mail that ensures a parcel reaches its destination either on the day of postage or the following morning
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- day camp — a camp for children providing no sleeping facilities and attended only during the day on weekdays.
- day pass — a ticket that, once bought, enables you to use, travel on or access something free for one day
- day trip — A day trip is a journey to a place and back again on the same day, usually for pleasure.
- day-trip — to travel as a day-tripper.
- daypacks — Plural form of daypack.
- de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- de plano — without argument.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.
- decaplet — One of a group of ten babies born at the same time.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- deep fat — cooking oil or fat that is deep enough in the pan to cover food that is to be deep-fried
- deep-sea — Deep-sea activities take place in the areas of the sea that are a long way from the coast.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- denpasar — seaport in S Bali, Indonesia: pop. 261,000
- depacked — Simple past tense and past participle of depack.
- departed — Departed friends or relatives are people who have died.
- departee — a person who departs or has departed
- departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys
- depilate — to remove the hair from
- deplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of deplane.
- deplanes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplane.
- depraved — Depraved actions, things, or people are morally bad or evil.
- depraver — One who depraves or corrupts.
- depraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave.
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- desk pad — a pad of paper for use on a desk
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despatch — dispatch
- despisal — contempt; the act of despising; scorn
- despotat — the dominion of a despot
- diaglyph — any instance of artwork carved into the surface of a hard substance (predominantly stone or metal), such that the design is set back from the surface; an intaglio
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir