8-letter words containing c, r, e, d
- decresc. — decrescendo
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decrying — Present participle of decry.
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- decurion — a local councillor
- decurved — bent or curved downwards
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- deforced — Simple past tense and past participle of deforce.
- deforcer — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- defrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrock.
- dejecter — One who casts down, or dejects.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- demarche — move, step, or manoeuvre, esp in diplomatic affairs
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- depicter — A person who depicts (a specified subject).
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- deracine — uprooted
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- derilict — Misspelling of derelict.
- dermatic — (dated) Of or relating to the skin; dermic.
- derricks — Plural form of derrick.
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- describe — If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
- descried — to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern; espy: The lookout descried land.
- descries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descry.
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- descrive — to describe
- desertic — (of soil) developing in hot, dry climates
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- detector — A detector is an instrument which is used to discover that something is present somewhere, or to measure how much of something there is.
- deticker — an implement or chemical agent used to remove ticks (from an animal)
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- deuteric — of, pertaining to, or resulting from the metasomatic changes taking place in igneous rock or magma as it solidifies
- devorced — Simple past tense and past participle of devorce.
- 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
- dickered — to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle.
- dieretic — the separation of two adjacent vowels, dividing one syllable into two.
- dietrich — Marlene [mahr-ley-nuh] /mɑrˈleɪ nə/ (Show IPA), 1904–92, U.S. actress and singer, born in Germany.
- dimetric — (in technical drawing) denoting or incorporating a method of showing projection or perspective using a set of three geometric axes, of which two are of the same scale or dimension but the third is of another.
- directed — proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique: a direct route.
- directer — Comparative form of direct.
- directly — in a direct line, way, or manner; straight: The path leads directly to the lake.
- director — a person or thing that directs.
- discerns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discern.
- discoure — Obsolete form of discover.
- discover — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.