8-letter words containing d, a, b
- dahabieh — A traditional Egyptian sailing-boat.
- daibutsu — a large representation of the Buddha.
- damboard — a draughtboard
- damnable — You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal.
- damnably — in a detestable manner
- damp box — a box that is lined with moist material for keeping clay in a plastic state.
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- danubian — of or relating to the river Danube
- darbyite — a member of the Plymouth Brethren.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- data bus — (architecture) The bus (connections between and within the CPU, memory, and peripherals) used to carry data. Other connections are the address bus and control signals. The width and clock rate of the data bus determine its data rate (the number of bytes per second it can carry), which is one of the main factors determining the processing power of a computer. Most current processor designs use a 32-bit bus, meaning that 32 bits of data can be transferred at once. Some processors have an internal data bus which is wider than their external bus in order to make external connections cheaper while retaining some of the benefits in processing power of a wider bus. See also data path.
- databank — a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
- database — A database is a collection of data that is stored in a computer and that can easily be used and added to.
- datacube — Alternative spelling of data cube.
- dateable — a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- datebook — a notebook in which a person keeps a personal record of daily events, appointments, etc
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- daybooks — Plural form of daybook.
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- de bakey — Michael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.
- deadbeat — If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society.
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- dealbate — having a white exterior or covering
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- deathbed — If someone is on their deathbed, they are in a bed and about to die.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debagged — to depants.
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debarred — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debation — Debating.
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- 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
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- delibate — to take a small taste of (a liquid)
- denebola — the second brightest star in the constellation Leo. Visual magnitude: 2.14; spectral type: A3V
- deniable — able to be denied; questionable
- deniably — In a deniable manner.
- deverbal — (of a noun or adjective) derived from a verb.
- diabasic — Pertaining to, or containing, diabase.
- diabatic — occurring with an exchange of heat (opposed to adiabatic): a diabatic process.
- diabelli — Antonio [ahn-toh-nee-oh] /ɑnˈtoʊ niˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), 1781–1858, Austrian composer and music publisher.
- diabetes — Diabetes is a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in their blood.