8-letter words containing d, i, l
- defilade — protection provided by obstacles against enemy crossfire from the rear, or observation
- defiling — Present participle of defile.
- deicidal — a person who kills a god.
- del city — a city in central Oklahoma.
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delative — noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place down from which.
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- deleting — Present participle of delete.
- deletion — the act of deleting or fact of being deleted
- deletive — intended to destroy or remove
- delhiite — a native or inhabitant of Delhi
- delibate — to take a small taste of (a liquid)
- delicacy — Delicacy is the quality of being easy to break or harm, and refers especially to people or things that are attractive or graceful.
- delicata — (North America) An heirloom variety of winter squash, oblong in shape and having a cream-colored skin with green stripes.
- delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
- deligent — Archaic spelling of diligent.
- delights — Plural form of delight.
- delimits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delimit.
- delinked — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- delirium — If someone is suffering from delirium, they are not able to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way because they are very ill and have a fever.
- delisted — Simple past tense and past participle of delist.
- delivers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliver.
- delivery — Delivery or a delivery is the bringing of letters, parcels, or other goods to someone's house or to another place where they want them.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- delphine — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of dolphins.
- deltoids — Plural form of deltoid.
- deluding — Present participle of delude.
- deluging — Present participle of deluge.
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- delusive — tending to delude; misleading
- demibold — Semibold.
- demilune — an outwork in front of a fort, shaped like a crescent moon
- demissly — in a demiss manner
- demivolt — a half turn on the hind legs
- demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- denglish — a variety of German containing a high proportion of English words
- deniable — able to be denied; questionable
- deniably — In a deniable manner.
- denticle — a small tooth or toothlike part, such as any of the placoid scales of sharks
- dentinal — the hard, calcareous tissue, similar to but denser than bone, that forms the major portion of a tooth, surrounds the pulp cavity, and is situated beneath the enamel and cementum.
- depilate — to remove the hair from
- depolish — to remove the polish from (an object)
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- derailed — Cause (a train or trolley car) to leave its tracks accidentally.
- derailer — One who, or that which, derails.
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- derilict — Misspelling of derelict.
- desilted — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- desilter — A desilter is a device, usually a hydrocyclone, at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.