8-letter words containing e, a, k
- damasked — a reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, or wool, woven with patterns.
- damasken — Alternative form of damascene.
- dankness — unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- datebook — a notebook in which a person keeps a personal record of daily events, appointments, etc
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- de bakey — Michael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.
- dead key — a key on the keyboard of a typewriter which does not automatically advance the carriage when depressed
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- deckhand — A deckhand is a person who does the cleaning and other work on the deck of a ship.
- deckhead — the undersurface of a deck.
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- dekalogy — a series of ten related works
- demarked — demarcate.
- demarket — to discourage consumers from buying (a particular product), either because it is faulty or because it could jeopardize the seller's reputation
- depacked — Simple past tense and past participle of depack.
- desk pad — a pad of paper for use on a desk
- deskfast — breakfast eaten at one's desk at work
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- diarbekr — Diyarbakir.
- dickhead — If someone calls a man a dickhead, they are saying that they think he is very stupid.
- die back — If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive.
- diemaker — someone who makes dies
- divalike — (literally) like a spoiled diva.
- docmaker — (text, tool, product) An application for the Apple Macintosh which creates stand-alone, self-running document files. It features scrollable and re-sizable windows, graphics, varied text styles and fonts, full printing capability, and links to other software and information. Companies such as Federal Express, GTE, Hewlett-Packard, Iomega, Adobe Systems, Inc., Apple Computer and Aladdin use DOCMaker to distribute disk-based documentation with their products.
- downtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like downward from a furnace, opening, etc.
- 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.
- duckface — Informal. a facial expression in which the lips are pressed together and pushed forward, especially in a photograph.
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- earmarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of earmark.
- eastlake — Sir Charles Locke, 1836–1906, English architect, designer, and author.
- ecofreak — a zealous or overly zealous environmentalist or preservationist.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- elastick — Obsolete form of elastic.
- embanked — Simple past tense and past participle of embank.
- embanker — a person who makes an embankment
- embarked — Go on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
- embarkee — One who embarks on a vessel such as a ship or plane.
- empacket — to wrap up
- erratick — Obsolete form of erratic.