8-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s
- delsarte — François [fran-swah;; French frahn-swa] /frænˈswɑ;; French frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1811–71, French musician and teacher.
- demersal — living or occurring on the bottom of a sea or a lake
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denpasar — seaport in S Bali, Indonesia: pop. 261,000
- depraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave.
- deranges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derange.
- desalter — an apparatus for desalting
- desander — A desander is a device at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- diarised — Simple past tense and past participle of diarise.
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- disabler — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- disarmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarm.
- disarmer — A person who advocates or campaigns for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- dispread — to spread out
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- doorcase — the finish frame of a doorway.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- 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.
- drabbles — Plural form of drabble.
- drabness — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- draggers — Plural form of dragger.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- dreamers — Plural form of dreamer.
- dressage — haute école (def 1).
- droseras — Plural form of drosera.
- drysdale — Sir George Russell. 1912–81, Australian painter, esp of landscapes
- durables — (economics) Plural form of durable; durable goods.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- eardrums — Plural form of eardrum.
- earldoms — Plural form of earldom.