8-letter words containing i, n, s, d
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- doziness — The state of being dozy.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drinkers — Plural form of drinker.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- dry sink — a wooden kitchen sink, especially of the 19th century, not connected to an external water supply, with a shallow zinc- or tin-lined well on top in which a dishpan can be placed, and usually a cupboard below.
- dubbings — Plural form of dubbing.
- dubinsky — David, 1892–1982, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland: president of the I.L.G.W.U. 1932–66.
- duckpins — Plural form of duckpin.
- dumpings — Plural form of dumping.
- dustbins — Plural form of dustbin.
- dustings — Plural form of dusting.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- dynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces.
- dynamise — Alternative spelling of dynamize.
- dynamism — The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress.
- dynamist — A subscriber to the philosophy of dynamism.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- dysgenic — pertaining to or causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.
- dysgonic — growing poorly on artificial media, as certain bacteria (opposed to eugonic).
- dyspneic — difficult or labored breathing.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystonic — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- echidnas — Plural form of echidna.
- edginess — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- editions — Plural form of edition.
- effendis — Plural form of effendi.
- eidolons — Plural form of eidolon.
- endeixis — a sign or mark
- endemics — Plural form of endemic.
- endemism — The state of being endemic.
- enlisted — Enroll or be enrolled in the armed services.
- enshield — to protect
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- feedings — Plural form of feeding.
- fidonews — (messaging, history) The weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet, also known as "'Snooz". As the editorial policy of Fidonews was "anything that arrives, we print", there were often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit flamage in subsequent issues.
- fiendish — diabolically cruel and wicked.
- findings — the act of a person or thing that finds; discovery.