8-letter words containing a, l, d, r
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- 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.
- derailed — Cause (a train or trolley car) to leave its tracks accidentally.
- derailer — One who, or that which, derails.
- dermally — In a dermal way; of or to the skin.
- desalter — an apparatus for desalting
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- detailer — a person who cares for (polishes, repaints, cleans, etc) cars
- detrital — rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- deverbal — (of a noun or adjective) derived from a verb.
- diablery — Sorcery.
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- dialyzer — an apparatus for dialyzing, esp. one used as an artificial kidney
- diarchal — Relating to, or pertaining to, diarchy or a diarchy system.
- dielytra — a member of a genus of flowering herbaceous plants including bleeding heart
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dilators — Plural form of dilator.
- dilatory — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dirtball — (slang, derogatory) A dirty or sleazy person.
- 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.
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- distrail — dissipation trail.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- doctoral — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dollared — having many dollars; wealthy
- 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.
- 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.