8-letter words containing d, e
- abducent — (of a muscle) abducting
- abducted — Simple past tense and past participle of abduct.
- abductee — someone who is abducted
- abednego — one of Daniel's three companions who, together with Shadrach and Meshach, was miraculously saved from destruction in Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace (Daniel 3:12–30)
- aberdare — a town in South Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 31 705 (2001)
- aberdeen — a city in NE Scotland, on the North Sea: centre for processing North Sea oil and gas; university (1494). Pop: 184 788 (2001)
- abhorred — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- abidable — Alternative spelling of abideable.
- abidance — the act or state of abiding.
- abide by — If you abide by a law, agreement, or decision, you do what it says you should do.
- aboideau — a dyke with a sluicegate that allows flood water to drain but keeps the sea water out
- abounded — to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers: a stream in which trout abound.
- abraided — Simple past tense and past participle of abraid.
- abridged — An abridged book or play has been made shorter by removing some parts of it.
- abridger — One who abridges. (First attested in the mid 16th century.).
- abridges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abridge.
- abrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of abrupt.
- abseiled — Simple past tense and past participle of abseil.
- absented — not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present): absent from class.
- absolved — Simple past tense and past participle of absolve.
- absorbed — If you are absorbed in something or someone, you are very interested in them and they take up all your attention and energy.
- abstrude — (transitive) To thrust away.
- absurder — Comparative form of absurd.
- academes — the campus activity, life, and interests of a college or university; the academic world.
- academia — Academia refers to all the academics in a particular country or region, the institutions they work in, and their work.
- academic — Academic is used to describe things that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities, especially work which involves studying and reasoning rather than practical or technical skills.
- academus — an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.
- acaudate — (biology, zoology) Tailless.
- acceding — to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent; to accede to a request; to accede to the terms of a contract.
- accended — Simple past tense and past participle of accend.
- accented — Language or speech that is accented is spoken with a particular accent.
- accepted — Accepted ideas are agreed by most people to be correct or reasonable.
- accessed — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accident — An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
- accolade — If someone is given an accolade, something is done or said about them which shows how much people admire them.
- accorded — to be in agreement or harmony; agree.
- accorder — (rare) One who accords.
- accosted — (of animals) represented as side by side: two dolphins accosted.
- accredit — If an educational qualification or institution is accredited, it is officially declared to be of an approved standard.
- accreted — to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to).
- accursed — Some people use accursed to describe something which they are very annoyed about.
- accuseds — charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc.: the accused boy.
- aceldama — the place near Jerusalem that was bought with the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas for betraying Jesus (Matthew 27:8; Acts 1:19)
- acerated — having sharp points
- acetated — treated with acetic acid
- achieved — Reach or attain (a desired objective, level, or result) by effort, skill, or courage.
- acid dye — a dye in which the chromophore is part of a negative ion usually applied from an acidic solution
- acidemia — a state of abnormally high acidity of the blood due to an increase in hydrogen ions
- acidemic — Alternative form of acidaemic.
- acidhead — a person who uses LSD