8-letter words containing i, l, n
- downline — Alternative spelling of down line.
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- drilling — a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- 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.
- drumline — A group of percussionists in a marching band.
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- dry kiln — an oven for the controlled drying and seasoning of cut lumber.
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- duckling — a young duck.
- duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- dukeling — an inferior or minor duke
- dulciana — an organ stop having metal pipes and giving thin, incisive, somewhat stringlike tones.
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- dumpling — a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soup or with stewed meat.
- duncical — relating to a dunce or being stupid or simple-minded
- dunelike — Resembling a dune or some aspect of one.
- dunghill — a heap of dung.
- dwelling — Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- dwindled — Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- dye-line — a contact print of a line drawing, giving brown lines on an off-white background.
- eastlins — in an eastward direction
- eclosion — the emergence of an adult insect from its pupal case.
- ecycling — the process of recycling electronic equipment or components
- eidolons — Plural form of eidolon.
- el aaiún — a city in Western Sahara, controlled by Morocco: the capital of the former Spanish Sahara; port facilities for rich phosphate deposits nearby. Pop: 197 000 (2005 est)
- el minya — a city in central Egypt, on the Nile. Pop: 225 000 (2005 est)
- elaphine — relating to or resembling a red deer
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- elaterin — An extract from the juice of the fruit of Ecballium elaterium (the squirting cucumber), used as a purgative.
- elations — Plural form of elation.
- elbowing — Present participle of elbow.
- electing — Present participle of elect.
- election — A formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.
- elenchic — elenctic
- elenctic — Serving to refute; refutative.
- elisions — Plural form of elision.
- elsinore — Helsingør
- emailing — Present participle of email.
- emulsion — A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.
- en clair — in ordinary language; not in cipher
- en plein — (of a gambling bet) placed entirely on a single number, etc
- enabling — software enabling
- encircle — Form a circle around ; surround.