8-letter words containing a, s, e, d
- day case — a patient or case that comes into hospital for a surgical procedure and is dealt with and released in the course of one day
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dayshell — a thistle
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- dead sea — a lake between Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, now 420 m (1378 ft) below sea level; originally 390 m (1285 ft): the lowest lake in the world, with no outlet and very high salinity; outline, esp at the southern end, reduced considerably in recent years. Area: originally about 950 sq km (365 sq miles); by 2003 about 625 sq km (240 sq miles)
- dead set — absolutely
- deadeyes — Plural form of deadeye.
- deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- 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.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- deceased — The deceased is used to refer to a particular person or to particular people who have recently died.
- deceases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decease.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- deep-sea — Deep-sea activities take place in the areas of the sea that are a long way from the coast.
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- deflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflate.
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- degassed — to free from gas.
- degasser — A degasser is a device which removes gas from drilling mud.
- degrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degrade.
- degrease — to remove grease from
- delayers — Plural form of delayer.
- delcasse — Théophile [tey-aw-feel] /teɪ ɔˈfil/ (Show IPA), 1852–1923, French statesman.
- 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
- deplanes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplane.
- depraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave.
- deranges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derange.
- desalted — Simple past tense and past participle of desalt.
- desalter — an apparatus for desalting