8-letter words containing d, e, c, a, s
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- dogfaces — Plural form of dogface.
- doorcase — the finish frame of a doorway.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- edacious — devouring; voracious; consuming.
- educates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of educate.
- encashed — Simple past tense and past participle of encash.
- enchased — Simple past tense and past participle of enchase.
- escalade — The scaling of fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack.
- escapade — An act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure.
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- estacade — a defensive arrangement of stakes
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- headcase — (informal) A mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- medevacs — Plural form of medevac.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- passcode — password (def 2).
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- reascend — to ascend again
- saccades — the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
- sacheted — contained in a sachet
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sad case — a person considered to be ludicrously contemptible or pathetic
- sadducee — a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- searched — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- sedecias — Zedekiah.
- seedcake — a sweet cake containing aromatic seeds, usually caraway.
- seedcase — a seed capsule; pericarp.
- shackled — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae