8-letter words containing e, s, a
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- dabsters — Plural form of dabster.
- 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
- daftness — senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- dagestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daimones — disembodied souls
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- damasked — a reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, or wool, woven with patterns.
- damasken — Alternative form of damascene.
- damastes — Procrustes.
- damndest — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- 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
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- danaides — the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- danishes — Plural form of danish.
- dankness — unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- dare say — to think likely; suppose
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- darndest — Alternative spelling of darnedest.
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- data set — a collection of data records for computer processing.
- database — A database is a collection of data that is stored in a computer and that can easily be used and added to.
- datasets — Plural form of dataset.
- dateless — likely to remain fashionable, relevant, or interesting regardless of age; timeless
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- day case — a patient or case that comes into hospital for a surgical procedure and is dealt with and released in the course of one day
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dayshell — a thistle
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- dead sea — a lake between Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, now 420 m (1378 ft) below sea level; originally 390 m (1285 ft): the lowest lake in the world, with no outlet and very high salinity; outline, esp at the southern end, reduced considerably in recent years. Area: originally about 950 sq km (365 sq miles); by 2003 about 625 sq km (240 sq miles)
- dead set — absolutely
- deadeyes — Plural form of deadeye.
- deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.