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8-letter words containing d, y, e, r

  • decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
  • deep-fry — If you deep-fry food, you fry it in a large amount of fat or oil.
  • deer fly — any of several tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, the female of which is a vector of tularemia in deer, livestock, and humans.
  • deeryard — a place where deer congregate to spend the winter
  • defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
  • defrayed — to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
  • delayers — Plural form of delayer.
  • deletory — something that deletes or erases
  • 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.
  • delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
  • demurely — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
  • deployer — a person or thing that deploys
  • deprenyl — a drug used to treat senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression, by acting as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor
  • derisory — If you describe something such as an amount of money as derisory, you are emphasizing that it is so small or inadequate that it seems silly or not worth considering.
  • dermally — In a dermal way; of or to the skin.
  • destroys — Put an end to the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it.
  • deviltry — reckless mischief, fun, etc.
  • dewberry — any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits
  • dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
  • diablery — Sorcery.
  • dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
  • dialyzer — an apparatus for dialyzing, esp. one used as an artificial kidney
  • dielytra — a member of a genus of flowering herbaceous plants including bleeding heart
  • directly — in a direct line, way, or manner; straight: The path leads directly to the lake.
  • dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
  • diversly — (archaic) In a divers way; severally, variously.
  • docherty — Pete. born 1979, English rock musician and songwriter; member of The Libertines (1997–2004) and Babyshambles (from 2005)
  • dogberry — the berry or fruit of any of various plants, as the European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, the chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia, or the mountain ash, Sorbus americana.
  • dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
  • dreamery — the dream world
  • dreamily — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
  • drearily — causing sadness or gloom.
  • dressily — in a dressy manner
  • drinkery — barroom; tavern.
  • drive-by — the action of driving by a specified locality, object, etc.: a drive-by of Nelson's Monument.
  • driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
  • drollery — something whimsically amusing or funny.
  • dropsley — a dish of very small dumplings made from a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning dropped in small pieces into broth.
  • drudgery — menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
  • dry beer — beer brewed to have a higher alcohol content and a less bitter aftertaste than normal.
  • dry cell — a cell in which the electrolyte exists in the form of a paste, is absorbed in a porous medium, or is otherwise restrained from flowing.
  • dry hole — any well drilled for oil or gas that does not yield enough to be commercially profitable.
  • dry lake — a tract of land in a desert region over which a shallow lake is formed during the rainy season or after prolonged heavy rains.
  • dry rent — rent seck.
  • dry well — a drainage pit lined with loose stonework for the leaching of liquid wastes.
  • dry wine — wine that is not sweet
  • dry-eyed — not weeping; unmoved.
  • drysdale — Sir George Russell. 1912–81, Australian painter, esp of landscapes
  • drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
  • dunleary — a port in E Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay. Pop: 24 447 (2002)
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