8-letter words containing d, e, a
- arguendo — (legal) for the sake of argument.
- argufied — Simple past tense and past participle of argufy.
- aridness — The state or quality of being arid.
- arillode — a false aril, developing from an opening in the covering of the ovule instead of from its stalk
- aristide — Jean-Bertrand, born 1953, Haitian priest and political leader: first democratically elected president, 1991, 1994–96, 2001–04.
- armidale — a town in Australia, in NE New South Wales: a centre for tourism. Pop: 20 271 (2001)
- armoured — Armoured vehicles are fitted with a hard metal covering in order to protect them from gunfire and other missiles.
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- arranged — If you say how things are arranged, you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else.
- arrested — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- arsenide — a compound in which arsenic is the most electronegative element
- art deco — Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. It uses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
- arteveld — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1290?–1345, Flemish statesman.
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- ascended — to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- asfetida — asafetida.
- ashmedai — (tool) A symbolic mathematics package by Michael Levine <[email protected]> that influenced SMP and FORM. There are versions for the Univac 1108 and VAX/VMS.
- asmodeus — (in Jewish demonology) prince of the demons
- aspected — (astrology, obsolete) Subject to a particular planetary aspect.
- aspersed — Simple past tense and past participle of asperse.
- asphodel — any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers
- assailed — Simple past tense and past participle of assail.
- assented — to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to): to assent to a statement.
- asserted — resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; alleged: The asserted value of the property was twice the amount anyone offered.
- assessed — Simple past tense and past participle of assess.
- assidean — a member of a sect, characterized by its religious zeal and piety, that flourished in the 2nd century b.c. during the time of the Maccabees and vigorously resisted the Hellenization of Jewish culture and religion.
- assigned — Simple past tense and past participle of assign.
- assisted — to give support or aid to; help: Please assist him in moving the furniture.
- assoiled — Simple past tense and past participle of assoil.
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- assuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- astatide — a binary compound of astatine with a more electropositive element
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- at grade — on the same level
- at speed — quickly
- atheldom — (rare) The state or condition of being athel or noble; nobility.
- athetoid — (symptom) characterised by athetosis.
- atomised — to reduce to atoms.
- atomized — Simple past tense and past participle of atomize.
- attached — If you are attached to someone or something, you like them very much.
- attacked — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- attained — to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain: to attain one's goals.
- attended — to be present at: to attend a lecture; to attend church.
- attendee — The attendees at something such as a meeting or a conference are the people who are attending it.
- attender — The attenders at a particular place or event are the people who go there.
- attested — (of cattle, etc) certified to be free from a disease, esp from tuberculosis