8-letter words containing e, l, d
- cruelled — Simple past tense and past participle of cruel.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumpled — creased
- cuddlier — suitable for or inviting cuddling: a cuddly teddy bear.
- cudgeled — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- cyclized — to cause cyclization.
- cylinder — A cylinder is an object with flat circular ends and long straight sides.
- d'albert — Eugen [German oi-geyn] /German ɔɪˈgeɪn/ (Show IPA), or Eugène [French œ-zhen] /French œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Francis Charles, 1864–1932, German-French pianist and composer, born in Scotland.
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- daedalic — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- daedalid — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Attica from the middle to the end of the 7th century b.c., characterized chiefly by the use of the black-figure style in painting and a narrative treatment of subject matter.
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- daladier — Édouard (edwar). 1884–1970, French radical socialist statesman; premier of France (1933; 1934; 1938–40) and signatory of the Munich Pact (1938)
- dalcroze — Jaques-Dalcroze.
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
- damnable — You use damnable to emphasize that you dislike or disapprove of something a great deal.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- dancerly — characteristic of or moving like a dancer; having the skills or physique of a dancer.
- danegeld — the tax first levied in the late 9th century in Anglo-Saxon England to provide protection money for or to finance forces to oppose Viking invaders
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- danielle — a feminine name
- danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
- dapperly — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- dataller — a worker paid by the day
- dateable — a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- dateless — likely to remain fashionable, relevant, or interesting regardless of age; timeless
- dateline — the date and location of a story, placed at the top of an article
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- datolite — a colourless mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium and boron in monoclinic crystalline form, occurring in cavities in igneous rocks. Formula: CaBSiO4(OH)
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dayshell — a thistle
- daytaler — a worker who is appointed and paid on a daily basis
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- de klerk — F(rederik) W(illem). born 1936, South African statesman; president (1989–94), second executive deputy president (1994–97). In 1990 he legalized the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison, and initiated the abolition of apartheid: Nobel peace prize 1993 jointly with Mandela
- de mille — Cecil B(lount). 1881–1959, US film producer and director
- de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- de plano — without argument.