8-letter words containing d, e, c, a, s
- cheddars — Plural form of cheddar.
- chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- cladodes — Plural form of cladode.
- cleansed — Simple past tense and past participle of cleanse.
- coalshed — a shed in which coal is stored
- cockades — Plural form of cockade.
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- day case — a patient or case that comes into hospital for a surgical procedure and is dealt with and released in the course of one day
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- deceased — The deceased is used to refer to a particular person or to particular people who have recently died.
- deceases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decease.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- delcasse — Théophile [tey-aw-feel] /teɪ ɔˈfil/ (Show IPA), 1852–1923, French statesman.
- descaled — Simple past tense and past participle of descale.
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- descanso — A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
- descants — Plural form of descant.
- desecate — (obsolete) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
- despatch — dispatch
- detaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detach.
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- dialects — Plural form of dialect.
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- dictates — authoritative commands or rules
- die-cast — formed by die casting.
- diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
- discased — to take the case or covering from; uncase.
- disclame — (obsolete) To disclaim; to expel.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.