8-letter words containing a, e, r
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- darraine — clear of guilt
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- dataller — a worker paid by the day
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- day care — Day care is care that is provided during the day for people who cannot look after themselves, such as small children, old people, or people who are ill. Day care is provided by paid workers.
- day-care — of, relating to, or providing day care: day-care center; day-care program.
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- daydream — A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
- daytaler — a worker who is appointed and paid on a daily basis
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
- dead arm — temporary loss of sensation in the arm, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- deadener — to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
- deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- deaerate — to take air out of (something)
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debarred — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decagram — dekagram
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decenary — of or relating to a tithing
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- declared — stated openly, officially, or formally
- declarer — a person who declares
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- deermeat — Alternative spelling of deer meat.