8-letter words containing d, s, n
- downless — the soft, first plumage of many young birds.
- downmost — in the lowest position
- downrush — (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- doyennes — Plural form of doyenne.
- doziness — The state of being dozy.
- drabness — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragoons — Plural form of dragoon.
- dragsman — a person who drives a carriage or drag
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drenches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drench.
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drinkers — Plural form of drinker.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drnovsek — Janez . 1950–2008, Slovenian politician, president of Slovenia (2002–07)
- dromonds — Plural form of dromond.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- drunkest — Superlative form of drunk.
- dry sink — a wooden kitchen sink, especially of the 19th century, not connected to an external water supply, with a shallow zinc- or tin-lined well on top in which a dishpan can be placed, and usually a cupboard below.
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
- dubbings — Plural form of dubbing.
- dubinsky — David, 1892–1982, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland: president of the I.L.G.W.U. 1932–66.
- duckpins — Plural form of duckpin.
- dudgeons — Plural form of dudgeon.
- dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dumpings — Plural form of dumping.
- dungeons — Plural form of dungeon.
- dunnarts — Plural form of dunnart.
- duopsony — the market condition that exists when there are only two buyers.
- duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- dushanbe — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
- dust gun — a hand-operated device for spraying pesticide or dusting plants.
- dustbins — Plural form of dustbin.
- dustings — Plural form of dusting.
- dustpans — Plural form of dustpan.
- dvandvas — Plural form of dvandva.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- dynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces.