8-letter words containing d, a, n, t
- caftaned — wearing a caftan
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- cant dog — cant hook
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- cartland — Dame Barbara (Hamilton). 1901–2000, British novelist, noted for her prolific output of popular romantic fiction
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- coattend — to attend jointly
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- crenated — Crenate.
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- 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.
- daintily — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- 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
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- data pen — a device for reading or scanning magnetically coded data on labels, packets, etc
- databank — a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
- 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
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- 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)
- dentally — in relation to the teeth