8-letter words containing d, e, t, a
- admitted — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- admittee — a person who has been (or will be) admitted
- admitter — a person who admits or something which admits
- adoptees — Plural form of adoptee.
- adopters — Plural form of adopter.
- adoptive — Someone's adoptive family is the family that adopted them.
- adrastea — a small satellite of Jupiter, discovered in 1979
- adulated — Simple past tense and past participle of adulate.
- adultery — If a married person commits adultery, they have sex with someone that they are not married to.
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- advected — Simple past tense and past participle of advect.
- adverted — to remark or comment; refer (usually followed by to): He adverted briefly to the news of the day.
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- aerodart — a steel arrow dropped from an aircraft as a weapon
- aeroduct — an air duct
- affected — If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people.
- afflated — resulting from influence of someone or something
- agatized — to change into or make like agate.
- agitated — If someone is agitated, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- air date — the date of a broadcast or scheduled broadcast.
- airdates — Plural form of airdate.
- al dente — If you cook pasta or a vegetable until it is al dente, you cook it just long enough so that it is neither hard nor soft but is firm and slightly chewy.
- alighted — Simple past tense and past participle of alight.
- allotted — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- altadena — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- altitude — If something is at a particular altitude, it is at that height above sea level.
- alveated — resembling the channels of a beehive
- ambident — (chemistry) Describing a molecule or group that has two alternative and interacting reaction sites, to either of which a bond may be made during a reaction.
- amidated — to convert into an amide.
- aminated — to introduce an amino group into (a compound).
- amounted — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- and gate — An AND gate is an electrical circuit that combines two signals so that the output is on if both signals are present.
- andesite — a fine-grained tan or grey volcanic rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar, esp andesine, amphibole, and pyroxene
- andretti — Mario. born 1940, US racing driver: Formula One world champion (1978)
- anecdata — anecdotal evidence based on personal observations or opinions, random investigations, etc., but presented as fact: biased arguments supported by anecdata.
- anecdota — unpublished writings
- anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
- animated — Someone who is animated or who is having an animated conversation is lively and is showing their feelings.
- anointed — chosen officially to do an important job
- antecede — to go before, as in time, order, etc; precede
- antedate — to be or occur at an earlier date than
- anticked — Simple past tense and past participle of antic.
- antidote — An antidote is a chemical substance that stops or controls the effect of a poison.
- antidune — a sand hill or inclined bedding plane that forms a steep slope against the direction of a fast-flowing current
- antinode — a point at which the amplitude of one of the two kinds of displacement in a standing wave has maximum value. Generally the other kind of displacement has its minimum value at this point
- antipode — the exact or direct opposite
- antiqued — An antiqued object is modern but has been made to look like an antique.
- antiweed — opposed to marijuana use
- antlered — having antlers
- aptitude — Someone's aptitude for a particular kind of work or activity is their ability to learn it quickly and to do it well.