8-letter words containing a, t, e, n, d
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- battened — Simple past tense and past participle of batten.
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- bedstand — a bedside table
- bertrand — a masculine name
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- coattend — to attend jointly
- crenated — Crenate.
- ctenidia — any of various comblike or featherlike structures, as the row of stiff bristles on the legs of a psocid.
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- dagestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daintier — Comparative form of dainty.
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- damndest — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- dancette — an ornamental zigzag, as in a molding.
- dancetty — having a zigzag pattern
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- data pen — a device for reading or scanning magnetically coded data on labels, packets, etc
- dateline — the date and location of a story, placed at the top of an article
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- davenant — Sir William. 1606–68, English dramatist and poet: poet laureate (1638–68). His plays include Love and Honour (1634)
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debation — Debating.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- decadent — If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure.
- decanted — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.
- dedicant — a person who devotes or dedicates
- definate — Misspelling of definite.
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- dementia — Dementia is a serious illness of the mind.
- denature — to change the nature of
- denegate — (obsolete, transitive) To deny.
- denotate — to denote (something)