8-letter words containing i, d, e, a
- comedial — a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- cordelia — a feminine name
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- ctenidia — any of various comblike or featherlike structures, as the row of stiff bristles on the legs of a psocid.
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- 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.
- daemonic — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- dahabieh — A traditional Egyptian sailing-boat.
- daidzein — an antioxidant and type of isoflavone found in soy products
- daimones — disembodied souls
- daintier — Comparative form of dainty.
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- dairymen — Plural form of dairyman.
- daladier — Édouard (edwar). 1884–1970, French radical socialist statesman; premier of France (1933; 1934; 1938–40) and signatory of the Munich Pact (1938)
- daliance — Obsolete spelling of dalliance.
- damietta — a town in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta: important medieval commercial centre
- 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
- danielle — a feminine name
- danishes — Plural form of danish.
- danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
- darbyite — a member of the Plymouth Brethren.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darraine — clear of guilt
- dateline — the date and location of a story, placed at the top of an article
- 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)
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
- deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
- deadline — A deadline is a time or date before which a particular task must be finished or a particular thing must be done.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- 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.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debation — Debating.
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decanoic — Of or pertaining to decanoic acid or its derivatives; capric.
- decating — a finishing process for making fabric more lustrous, for improving the tactile quality of the nap, and for setting the material to reduce shrinkage.