8-letter words containing d, e, s
- copydesk — desk where newspaper copy is edited
- cordless — A cordless telephone or piece of electric equipment is operated by a battery fitted inside it and is not connected to the electricity mains.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- corrodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrode.
- corseted — A woman who is corseted is wearing a corset.
- cosigned — Simple past tense and past participle of cosign.
- cosseted — pampered; spoilt
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- couldest — Alternative form of couldst.
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- cowherds — Plural form of cowherd.
- cowhides — Plural form of cowhide.
- cowsheds — Plural form of cowshed.
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- criseyde — Cressida
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- cursored — Simple past tense and past participle of cursor.
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- custodes — plural of custos.
- customed — accustomed; inured
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- dabsters — Plural form of dabster.
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- dagestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daimones — disembodied souls
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- damasked — a reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, or wool, woven with patterns.
- damasken — Alternative form of damascene.
- damastes — Procrustes.
- damndest — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- danaides — the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- danishes — Plural form of danish.