8-letter words containing e, c, d
- depicter — A person who depicts (a specified subject).
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- deracine — uprooted
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- derilict — Misspelling of derelict.
- dermatic — (dated) Of or relating to the skin; dermic.
- derricks — Plural form of derrick.
- descaled — Simple past tense and past participle of descale.
- descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.
- descanso — A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
- descants — Plural form of descant.
- descends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- descents — Plural form of descent.
- deschool — to separate education from the institution of school and operate through the pupil's life experience as opposed to a set curriculum
- describe — If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
- descried — to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern; espy: The lookout descried land.
- descries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descry.
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- descrive — to describe
- desecate — (obsolete) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
- deselect — (of a constituency organization) to refuse to select (an existing MP) for re-election
- desertic — (of soil) developing in hot, dry climates
- despatch — dispatch
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- detached — Someone who is detached is not personally involved in something or has no emotional interest in it.
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- detaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detach.
- detected — to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act: to detect someone cheating.
- detector — A detector is an instrument which is used to discover that something is present somewhere, or to measure how much of something there is.
- dethatch — to remove dead grass from (a lawn)
- deticker — an implement or chemical agent used to remove ticks (from an animal)
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- deucedly — devilishly; damnably.
- deuteric — of, pertaining to, or resulting from the metasomatic changes taking place in igneous rock or magma as it solidifies
- devachan — The place where gods abide, the
- deviance — the act or state of being deviant
- deviancy — deviant quality or state.
- devoiced — having been made voiceless
- devorced — Simple past tense and past participle of devorce.
- dew cell — an electrical instrument for measuring the dew point.
- dew claw — a functionless claw of some dogs, not reaching the ground in walking.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- diabetic — Diabetic is also an adjective.
- diacetyl — a chemical compound with formula C4H6O2, occurring naturally as a by-product of fermentation, and commonly added to margarine and other foods because of its buttery taste
- diactine — a sponge spicule having two rays that develop in different directions from a single point of origin
- diagetic — Misspelling of diegetic.
- dialects — Plural form of dialect.
- dianetic — Of or pertaining to dianetics.
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies