8-letter words containing e, s, m
- demoness — a female demon
- demonise — to turn into a demon or make demonlike.
- demonish — Like or characterisic of a demon; demonic.
- demonism — belief in the existence and power of demons
- demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- demyship — a type of scholarship awarded at Magdalen College, Oxford
- desklamp — A lamp used to illuminate a desk.
- desmitis — inflammation of a ligament.
- devilism — a characteristic of the devil; behaviour proper to the devil
- diastema — an abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in a bodily organ or part
- die stem — the South African national anthem until 1991, when part of it was incorporated into the current anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
- dilemmas — A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, esp. equally undesirable ones.
- dimensia — Misspelling of dementia.
- dimerise — Alternative spelling of dimerize.
- dimerous — consisting of or divided into two parts.
- dioecism — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- diomedes — a Greek hero in the Trojan War.
- diosmose — osmose.
- disarmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarm.
- disarmer — A person who advocates or campaigns for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons.
- disclame — (obsolete) To disclaim; to expel.
- disembed — (transitive) To remove (something) from what it is embedded in.
- dismayed — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
- dismoded — no longer fashionable
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- displume — to strip of plumes; deplume.
- ditheism — the doctrine of or belief in two equally powerful gods.
- docetism — an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- dolesome — doleful.
- dolmades — Plural form of dolmade.
- domesday — doomsday.
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- dominoes — a flat, thumbsized, rectangular block, the face of which is divided into two parts, each either blank or bearing from one to six pips or dots: 28 such pieces form a complete set.
- doomster — a doomsayer.
- dormeuse — mobcap.
- dormouse — any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- dreamers — Plural form of dreamer.
- drscheme — (Scheme) A popular Scheme implementation from the PLT team at Rice University.
- drum set — kit consisting of several drums
- drummers — Plural form of drummer.
- duelsome — having a propensity for duelling
- dumbells — Plural form of dumbell.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dumbsize — (informal) To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
- dumetose — (botany) dumose.
- dumfries — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dummiest — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- dumpsite — dump (def 17).
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.