8-letter words containing d, i, s
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- daishiki — dashiki
- dalglish — Kenny, born 1951, Scottish footballer: a striker, he played for Celtic (1968–77) and for Liverpool (1977–89): manager of Liverpool (1985–91; 2011–12), of Blackburn Rovers (1991–95), Newcastle United (1997–98), and Celtic (2000): Scotland's most-capped footballer (102 appearances, 1971–86)
- damaskin — (obsolete) A sword of Damascus steel.
- damassin — a patterned damask usually with a floral design
- danaides — the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom
- dandyish — a man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance; a fop.
- dandyism — a man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance; a fop.
- danishes — Plural form of danish.
- daphnias — Plural form of daphnia.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- dartitis — (in darts) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- dashikis — Plural form of dashiki.
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- davidson — Jo(seph)1883-1952; U.S. sculptor
- davisson — Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- 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
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- 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.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debitors — a debtor.
- 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
- 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.
- decidest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of decide.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- deep-six — To deep-six something means to get rid of it or destroy it.
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- defensin — (protein) Any of a family of cysteine-rich proteins that are active against bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- deficits — the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
- definers — Plural form of definer.
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.