8-letter words containing e, c, d
- decentre — to take away a temporary support from
- decerned — Scots Law. to enter a judicial decree.
- 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.
- deciding — powerfully and finally influencing a decision; decisive
- deciduae — Plural form of decidua.
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
- 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.
- deck lid — the hinged lid forming the upper surface of an automobile deck.
- deck log — a log filled in by the officer of the watch at the end of each watch, giving details of weather, navigation, unusual happenings, etc.
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- 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.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declared — stated openly, officially, or formally
- declarer — a person who declares
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- declawed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaw.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- declined — to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it.
- decliner — One who declines.
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- declutch — to disengage the clutch of a motor vehicle
- decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- decoders — Plural form of decoder.
- decoding — the act or the process of converting something from a coded form into a normal form
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- decomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of ten squares.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- deconned — Simple past tense and past participle of decon.
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- decorous — Decorous behaviour is very respectable, calm, and polite.
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
- decoying — Present participle of decoy.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- decreets — Plural form of decreet.
- decrepid — Obsolete spelling of decrepit (17th-20th c.).
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decresc. — decrescendo
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici