8-letter words containing d, e, i
- decaying — rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing
- deceived — (of a person) Cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage.
- deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- deceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deceive.
- decemvir — (in ancient Rome) a member of a board of ten magistrates, esp either of the two commissions established in 451 and 450 bc to revise the laws
- decennia — a period of ten years; a decade.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- deciders — Plural form of decider.
- decidest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of decide.
- deciding — powerfully and finally influencing a decision; decisive
- deciduae — Plural form of decidua.
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- deck lid — the hinged lid forming the upper surface of an automobile deck.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- declined — to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it.
- decliner — One who declines.
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- decoding — the act or the process of converting something from a coded form into a normal form
- decomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of ten squares.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- decoying — Present participle of decoy.
- decrepid — Obsolete spelling of decrepit (17th-20th c.).
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decrying — Present participle of decry.
- decurion — a local councillor
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- dedalian — relating to Daedalus
- dedekind — (Julius Wilhelm) Richard (ˈjuːlɪʊs ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈrixɑːt). 1831–1916, German mathematician, who devised a way (the Dedekind cut) of according irrational and rational numbers the same status
- dedicant — a person who devotes or dedicates
- dedicate — If you say that someone has dedicated themselves to something, you approve of the fact that they have decided to give a lot of time and effort to it because they think that it is important.
- dedition — (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
- deducing — Present participle of deduce.
- deep-six — To deep-six something means to get rid of it or destroy it.
- deerlike — resembling a deer
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- defensin — (protein) Any of a family of cysteine-rich proteins that are active against bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
- deficits — the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
- defilade — protection provided by obstacles against enemy crossfire from the rear, or observation