8-letter words containing e, i, g, n, d
- defining — decisive; critically important: Taking a course in architecture was a defining turn in her life.
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- deifying — Present participle of deify.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- deigning — to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity; condescend: He would not deign to discuss the matter with us.
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- deleting — Present participle of delete.
- deligent — Archaic spelling of diligent.
- deluding — Present participle of delude.
- deluging — Present participle of deluge.
- demining — Present participle of demine.
- demising — death or decease.
- demixing — Demixing is the unintended separation of the substances in a mixture.
- demoting — Present participle of demote.
- denglish — a variety of German containing a high proportion of English words
- denoting — to be a mark or sign of; indicate: A fever often denotes an infection.
- denuding — Present participle of denude.
- deposing — Present participle of depose.
- deputing — Present participle of depute.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- deriding — to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.
- deringer — an early short-barreled pocket pistol.
- deriving — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
- desexing — Present participle of desex.
- designed — made or done intentionally; intended; planned.
- designee — a person designated (to do something)
- designer — A designer is a person whose job is to design things by making drawings of them.
- desiring — to wish or long for; crave; want.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- deviling — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devising — to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
- devoting — to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- dignitie — Obsolete spelling of dignity.
- diligent — constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything: a diligent student.
- dinghies — Plural form of dinghy.
- dingiest — Superlative form of dingy.
- dinguses — Plural form of dingus.
- diogenes — 412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.
- diogenic — 412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.
- dioxygen — (chemistry) the normal allotrope of oxygen having two atoms per molecule.
- dirigent — directing
- dispunge — to expunge
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- dizening — Present participle of dizen.
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.