8-letter words containing d, e, s
- dankness — unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- dare say — to think likely; suppose
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- data set — a collection of data records for computer processing.
- database — A database is a collection of data that is stored in a computer and that can easily be used and added to.
- datasets — Plural form of dataset.
- dateless — likely to remain fashionable, relevant, or interesting regardless of age; timeless
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- day case — a patient or case that comes into hospital for a surgical procedure and is dealt with and released in the course of one day
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dayshell — a thistle
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- de stijl — a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada
- de vries — Hugo (ˈhyːxoː). 1848–1935, Dutch botanist, who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution
- dead sea — a lake between Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, now 420 m (1378 ft) below sea level; originally 390 m (1285 ft): the lowest lake in the world, with no outlet and very high salinity; outline, esp at the southern end, reduced considerably in recent years. Area: originally about 950 sq km (365 sq miles); by 2003 about 625 sq km (240 sq miles)
- dead set — absolutely
- deadeyes — Plural form of deadeye.
- deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- debitors — a debtor.
- debossed — to indent (a figure or design) into a surface: The design on the book's cover is debossed.
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- debrises — the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble: the debris of buildings after an air raid.
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- debtless — something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another: a debt of $50.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decapods — Plural form of decapod.
- deceased — The deceased is used to refer to a particular person or to particular people who have recently died.
- deceases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decease.
- deceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deceive.
- 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.