8-letter words containing a, n, d, r, e
- 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.
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- darraine — clear of guilt
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- 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.
- 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
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decenary — of or relating to a tithing
- deianira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm
- demander — One who demands.
- demeaner — One who demeans.
- demeanor — Your demeanor is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- denarian — One who is between the age of 10 and 19, inclusive.
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- denpasar — seaport in S Bali, Indonesia: pop. 261,000
- dentaria — a genus of plant within the family Brassicaceae, in some systems of classification considered identical with the genus Cardimime
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- depurant — purifying
- deracine — uprooted
- deranged — Someone who is deranged behaves in a wild and uncontrolled way, often as a result of mental illness.
- deranger — a person or thing that deranges
- deranges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derange.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- desander — A desander is a device at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.
- detainer — the wrongful withholding of the property of another person
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- diborane — a colorless gas with an unpleasant odor, B 2 H 6 , used in the synthesis of organic boron compounds as a dope to introduce boron and as a polymerization catalyst for ethylene.
- dicentra — any Asian or North American plant of the genus Dicentra, such as bleeding heart and Dutchman's-breeches, having finely divided leaves and ornamental clusters of drooping flowers: family Fumariaceae
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- doberman — Doberman pinscher.
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- drabness — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- dracaena — any treelike tropical plant of the genus Dracaena, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy leaves.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.