8-letter words containing d, e, c, n
- quenched — Simple past tense and past participle of quench.
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- reascend — to ascend again
- recanted — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- receding — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
- reckoned — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reconned — reconnaissance.
- red cent — a cent, as representative of triviality: His promise isn't worth a red cent.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- reindict — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- reinduce — to induce again
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- rondache — a small, round shield
- 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.
- 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.
- scienced — learned or knowledgeable (about something)
- screened — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- secodont — (of animals) having teeth with sharp cutting edges
- seconded — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secondee — a person who is seconded
- seconder — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- secondly — in the second place; second.
- secundum — according to
- secundus — (in prescriptions) second.
- silenced — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sun deck — a raised, open area, as a roof, terrace, or ship's deck, that is exposed to the sun.
- syndetic — serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.
- ten code — a set of code numbers each beginning with the number ten and used as a code to describe different situations: originally used by the police, now used in CB and other radio communications.
- tendance — attention; care; ministration, as to the sick.
- tendency — a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result: the tendency of falling bodies toward the earth.
- tranched — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- tunicked — wearing a tunic
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches
- unbacked — without backing or support.
- uncalled — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- uncanned — preserved in a can or jar: canned peaches.
- uncapped — to remove a cap or cover from (a bottle, container, etc.).
- uncarded — (of wool or other fibres) not carded
- uncarved — (of food) not carved or carved up
- uncashed — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- uncasked — removed from a cask; brought out of a cask
- uncaused — not resulting from some antecedent cause.
- unceased — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- unchewed — not chewed
- unclawed — not mauled, scratched, or otherwise damaged by claws
- unclosed — not closed: an unclosed door.
- uncloyed — not cloyed or clogged; unsatiated