8-letter words containing d, n, o
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- decoding — the act or the process of converting something from a coded form into a normal form
- decomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of ten squares.
- deconned — Simple past tense and past participle of decon.
- decoying — Present participle of decoy.
- decurion — a local councillor
- dedition — (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
- deerhorn — the horn of a deer
- defensor — One who defends; a defender.
- defrozen — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- dehorned — Simple past tense and past participle of dehorn.
- dehorner — A device for cutting the horns off an animal's head.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- deionise — Alternative spelling of deionize.
- deionize — to remove ions from (water) by the use of cation and anion exchangers
- delannoy — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1898–1962, French composer.
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- deletion — the act of deleting or fact of being deleted
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- demeanor — Your demeanor is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- demijohn — a large bottle with a short narrow neck, often with small handles at the neck and encased in wickerwork
- demoness — a female demon
- demoniac — of, like, or suggestive of a demon; demonic
- demonian — of, relating to, or resembling a demon
- demonise — to turn into a demon or make demonlike.
- demonish — Like or characterisic of a demon; demonic.
- demonism — belief in the existence and power of demons
- demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
- demonize — If people demonize someone, they convince themselves that that person is evil.
- demoting — Present participle of demote.
- demotion — to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.
- dendroid — freely branching; arborescent; treelike
- dendrons — Plural form of dendron.
- denebola — the second brightest star in the constellation Leo. Visual magnitude: 2.14; spectral type: A3V
- denotate — to denote (something)
- denotify — (transitive, India) To repeal the categorization of (a tribe) as criminal under the w Criminal Tribes Act.
- denoting — to be a mark or sign of; indicate: A fever often denotes an infection.
- denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
- denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
- deponent — (of a verb, esp in Latin) having the inflectional endings of a passive verb but the meaning of an active verb
- deposing — Present participle of depose.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
- descanso — A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
- desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
- desknote — a computer that is similar in size to a notebook computer, but is designed to remain stationary, like a desktop computer
- desponds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despond.
- dethrone — If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.