8-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- dustlike — Resembling dust.
- dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- dutiless — Without duties.
- duvalier — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Papa Doc") 1907–71, Haitian physician and dictator: president 1957–71.
- dwelling — Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- dwindled — Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- dye-line — a contact print of a line drawing, giving brown lines on an off-white background.
- dyslexia — any of various reading disorders associated with impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information.
- dyslexic — a person subject to or having dyslexia.
- dysmelia — a congenital abnormality characterized by missing, shortened, or excessive development of extremities.
- dysmelic — having or relating to dysmelia
- eclipsed — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- ecocidal — the destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals.
- edgehill — a ridge in S Warwickshire: site of the indecisive first battle between Charles I and the Parliamentarians (1642) in the Civil War
- editable — (of text or software) in a format that can be edited by the user.
- educible — Able to be elicited or evoked.
- edulious — (obsolete) edible.
- eidolons — Plural form of eidolon.
- el obeid — a city in the central Sudan, in Kordofan province: scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi (1883). Pop: 423 000 (2005 est)
- elaterid — any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae (click beetles). The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies
- eldritch — Weird and sinister or ghostly.
- elegized — Simple past tense and past participle of elegize.
- elicited — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
- elitedom — The realm or sphere of the elite.
- eludible — able to be eluded
- elytroid — like an elytron
- emulsoid — a sol with a liquid disperse phase
- enclined — Obsolete form of inclined.
- end line — American football: field marking
- enfilade — A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.
- engirdle — Surround; encircle.
- enkindle — Set on fire.
- enlisted — Enroll or be enrolled in the armed services.
- enshield — to protect
- entailed — Simple past tense and past participle of entail.
- entitled — Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- erodible — Capable of eroding.
- euglenid — A kind of flagellate distinguished mainly by the presence of a pellicle composed of proteinaceous strips underneath the cell membrane, supported by dorsal and ventral microtubules.
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- evadible — That can be evaded.
- evildoer — A person who commits profoundly immoral and malevolent deeds.
- exordial — Of or relating to an exordium, beginning or introduction.
- fairlead — a pulley, thimble, etc., used to guide a rope forming part of the rigging of a ship, crane, etc., in such a way as to prevent chafing.
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- fedelini — an extremely fine, strand-like pasta, thinner than vermicelli.
- fellside — The side of a fell (upland country).
- fervidly — heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.: a fervid orator.
- fiddlers — Plural form of fiddler.