8-letter words containing e, l, d
- 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
- ds level — (communications) (Digital Signal or Data Service level) Originally an AT&T classification of transmitting one or more voice conversations in one digital data stream. The best known DS levels are DS0 (a single conversation), DS1 (24 conversations multiplexed), DS1C, DS2, and DS3. By extension, the DS level can refer to the raw data rate necessary for transmission: DS0 64 Kb/s DS1 1.544 Mb/s DS1C 3.15 Mb/s DS2 6.31 Mb/s DS3 44.736 Mb/s DS4 274.1 Mb/s (where K and M signify multiplication by 1000 and 1000000, rather than powers of two). In this sense it can be used to measure of data service rates classifying the user access rates for various point-to-point WAN technologies or standards (e.g. X.25, SMDS, ISDN, ATM, PDH). Japan uses the US standards for DS0 through DS2 but Japanese DS5 has roughly the circuit capacity of US DS4, while the European standards are rather different (see E1). In the US all of the transmission rates are integral multiples of 8000 bits per second but rates above DS1 are not necessarily integral multiples of 1,544 kb/s.
- du sable — Jean Baptiste Pointe [zhahn ba-teest pwant] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist pwɛ̃t/ (Show IPA), 1745?–1818, U.S. pioneer trader, born in Haiti: early settler of Chicago.
- dual-use — dual-purpose; specif., designating or of machinery, technology, etc. having both civilian and military applications
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- ducklike — Similar to a duck.
- ductless — any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- due bill — a brief written acknowledgment of indebtedness, not payable to order.
- duelists — Plural form of duelist.
- duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- duellist — a person who participates in a duel.
- duelsome — having a propensity for duelling
- dukeling — an inferior or minor duke
- dulbecco — Renato [ruh-nah-toh;; Italian re-nah-taw] /rəˈnɑ toʊ;; Italian rɛˈnɑ tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1914–2012, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- dulcetly — In a dulcet manner.
- dulcimer — Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- dullened — Simple past tense and past participle of dullen; dulled.
- dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- dumbbell — a gymnastic apparatus consisting of two wooden or metal balls connected by a short bar serving as a handle, used as a weight for exercising.
- dumbells — Plural form of dumbell.
- duneland — a tract of land dominated by sand dunes, often bordering on a beach.
- dunelike — Resembling a dune or some aspect of one.
- dunkable — (informal) Suitable for dunking (as of food).
- dunleary — a port in E Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay. Pop: 24 447 (2002)
- duodenal — of or relating to the duodenum.
- duologue — a conversation between two persons; dialogue.
- duplexed — duplex apartment.
- duplexer — an automatic electronic switching device that permits the use of the same antenna for transmitting and receiving.
- duplexes — Plural form of duplex.
- durables — (economics) Plural form of durable; durable goods.
- dustless — Free of dust.
- dustlike — Resembling dust.
- dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- dutiless — Without duties.
- duvalier — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Papa Doc") 1907–71, Haitian physician and dictator: president 1957–71.