8-letter words containing d, e, n, r
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- darraine — clear of guilt
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- deadener — to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- debrecen — a city in E Hungary: seat of the revolutionary government of 1849. Pop: 205 881 (2003 est)
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decenary — of or relating to a tithing
- decenter — to cause to undergo a shift away from what has been its traditional center, focus, orientation, or emphasis
- decentre — to take away a temporary support from
- decerned — Scots Law. to enter a judicial decree.
- decliner — One who declines.
- decrying — Present participle of decry.
- decurion — a local councillor
- deepener — One who, or that which, deepens.
- deerhorn — the horn of a deer
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- defender — If someone is a defender of a particular thing or person that has been criticized, they argue or act in support of that thing or person.
- defensor — One who defends; a defender.
- deferent — (esp of a bodily nerve, vessel, or duct) conveying an impulse, fluid, etc, outwards, down, or away; efferent
- definers — Plural form of definer.
- defriend — to remove (a person) from the list of one's friends on a social networking website
- defrozen — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- degender — to degenerate
- dehorned — Simple past tense and past participle of dehorn.
- dehorner — A device for cutting the horns off an animal's head.
- deianira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm
- dejeuner — the morning meal
- demander — One who demands.
- demeaner — One who demeans.
- demeanor — Your demeanor is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- deminers — Plural form of deminer.
- denarian — One who is between the age of 10 and 19, inclusive.
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- dendrite — any of the short branched threadlike extensions of a nerve cell, which conduct impulses towards the cell body
- dendroid — freely branching; arborescent; treelike