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8-letter words containing a, l, d, e

  • collaged — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
  • collared — the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
  • collated — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
  • comedial — a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
  • conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack
  • cordelia — a feminine name
  • crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
  • culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
  • cupolaed — having a cupola
  • cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
  • d'albert — Eugen [German oi-geyn] /German ɔɪˈgeɪn/ (Show IPA), or Eugène [French œ-zhen] /French œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Francis Charles, 1864–1932, German-French pianist and composer, born in Scotland.
  • dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
  • daedalic — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
  • daedalid — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Attica from the middle to the end of the 7th century b.c., characterized chiefly by the use of the black-figure style in painting and a narrative treatment of subject matter.
  • daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
  • dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
  • daladier — Édouard (edwar). 1884–1970, French radical socialist statesman; premier of France (1933; 1934; 1938–40) and signatory of the Munich Pact (1938)
  • dalcroze — Jaques-Dalcroze.
  • dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
  • dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
  • daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
  • damnable — You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal.
  • damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
  • dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
  • danegeld — the tax first levied in the late 9th century in Anglo-Saxon England to provide protection money for or to finance forces to oppose Viking invaders
  • danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
  • danielle — a feminine name
  • danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
  • dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
  • darioles — Plural form of dariole.
  • dataller — a worker paid by the day
  • dateable — a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • dateless — likely to remain fashionable, relevant, or interesting regardless of age; timeless
  • dateline — the date and location of a story, placed at the top of an article
  • datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
  • datolite — a colourless mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium and boron in monoclinic crystalline form, occurring in cavities in igneous rocks. Formula: CaBSiO4(OH)
  • dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
  • dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
  • dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
  • dayshell — a thistle
  • daytaler — a worker who is appointed and paid on a daily basis
  • dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
  • de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
  • de plano — without argument.
  • dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
  • deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
  • deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
  • deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
  • deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
  • deadline — A deadline is a time or date before which a particular task must be finished or a particular thing must be done.
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