8-letter words containing d, e, l, i, r
- delivery — Delivery or a delivery is the bringing of letters, parcels, or other goods to someone's house or to another place where they want them.
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- derailed — Cause (a train or trolley car) to leave its tracks accidentally.
- derailer — One who, or that which, derails.
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- derilict — Misspelling of derelict.
- desilter — A desilter is a device, usually a hydrocyclone, at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.
- desilver — to remove silver from; to deprive of silver
- detailer — a person who cares for (polishes, repaints, cleans, etc) cars
- detrital — rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
- deviltry — reckless mischief, fun, etc.
- diablery — Sorcery.
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- dialyzer — an apparatus for dialyzing, esp. one used as an artificial kidney
- dieldrin — a light tan, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 12 H 8 OCl 6 , used as an insecticide: manufacture and use have been discontinued in the U.S.
- dielytra — a member of a genus of flowering herbaceous plants including bleeding heart
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- diluters — Plural form of diluter.
- diplexer — a device that can split and combine audio and video signals, permitting two transmitters to share the same antenna.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- directly — in a direct line, way, or manner; straight: The path leads directly to the lake.
- dirgeful — Having the qualities of a dirge; moaning.
- dirtless — Free of dirt.
- disabler — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disenrol — to remove from a register
- disliker — One who dislikes.
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- diversly — (archaic) In a divers way; severally, variously.
- divulger — One who divulges something.
- dolerite — a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- dreamily — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- drearily — causing sadness or gloom.
- dreidels — Plural form of dreidel.
- dressily — in a dressy manner
- dribbled — to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
- dribbler — A person who dribbles (salivates excessively).
- dribbles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dribble.
- driblets — Plural form of driblet.
- drillers — Plural form of driller.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- 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.
- driveled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- 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.
- drumlike — Resembling a drum, such as in sound or shape.
- drumline — A group of percussionists in a marching band.
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- dulcimer — Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.