8-letter words containing d, e, i
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drive-by — the action of driving by a specified locality, object, etc.: a drive-by of Nelson's Monument.
- drive-in — a motion-picture theater, refreshment stand, bank, or other public facility designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles.
- drive-up — serving or accessible to customers who drive up in their cars: a drive-up taco stand; a drive-up window at a bank.
- driveled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- drizzled — Simple past tense and past participle of drizzle.
- drizzles — Plural form of drizzle.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drowsier — Comparative form of drowsy.
- druggies — Plural form of druggie.
- druidess — a female member of the Druids.
- drumfire — gunfire so heavy and continuous as to sound like the beating of drums.
- drumlike — Resembling a drum, such as in sound or shape.
- drumline — A group of percussionists in a marching band.
- dry wine — wine that is not sweet
- dubitate — to doubt or be uncertain
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- ducklike — Similar to a duck.
- due bill — a brief written acknowledgment of indebtedness, not payable to order.
- duelists — Plural form of duelist.
- duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- duellist — a person who participates in a duel.
- duetting — turn-taking by two birds in the execution of a song pattern.
- duettino — a duet that is brief and to the point
- dukeling — an inferior or minor duke
- dukeship — the position or status of a duke
- dulcimer — Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- dumbsize — (informal) To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
- dumfries — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dummiest — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- dumpsite — dump (def 17).
- dunelike — Resembling a dune or some aspect of one.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- durkheim — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.
- dustiest — Superlative form of dusty.
- dustlike — Resembling dust.
- dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- dutiless — Without duties.
- duvalier — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Papa Doc") 1907–71, Haitian physician and dictator: president 1957–71.
- duvetine — a napped fabric, in a twilled or plain weave, of cotton, wool, silk, or rayon.
- dweebish — Dweeby.
- dwelling — Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- dwindled — Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.