8-letter words containing e, l, d, r
- dollared — having many dollars; wealthy
- doorbell — a bell chime, or the like, at a door or connected with a door, rung by persons outside wanting someone inside to open the door.
- doorless — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
- dopplers — Plural form of doppler.
- dotterel — any of several plovers usually inhabiting upland areas, especially Eudromias morinellus, of Europe and Asia.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.
- doublure — an ornamental lining of a book cover.
- drabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of drabble.
- drabbler — a piece of canvas fixed to the bottom of a sail to give it a greater area
- drabbles — Plural form of drabble.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drawable — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamily — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- drearily — causing sadness or gloom.
- dreidels — Plural form of dreidel.
- dressily — in a dressy manner
- dressler — Marie (Leila Koerber) 1869–1934, U.S. actress, born in Canada.
- dribbled — to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
- dribbler — A person who dribbles (salivates excessively).
- dribbles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dribble.
- driblets — Plural form of driblet.
- drillers — Plural form of driller.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- driveled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- drizzled — Simple past tense and past participle of drizzle.
- drizzles — Plural form of drizzle.
- drollery — something whimsically amusing or funny.
- drollest — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropsley — a dish of very small dumplings made from a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning dropped in small pieces into broth.
- drugless — being without the use of drugs, as certain methods of medical treatment.
- drumlike — Resembling a drum, such as in sound or shape.
- drumline — A group of percussionists in a marching band.
- drupelet — a little drupe, as one of the individual pericarps composing the blackberry.
- 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 well — a drainage pit lined with loose stonework for the leaching of liquid wastes.
- drysdale — Sir George Russell. 1912–81, Australian painter, esp of landscapes
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- dulcimer — Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.