8-letter words containing k, e, d
- cockaded — Wearing a cockade.
- cockades — Plural form of cockade.
- cockered — to pamper: to cocker a child.
- cockeyed — If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.
- codebook — a book containing the means to decipher a code
- coked-up — showing the effects of having taken cocaine
- cokehead — a person who takes cocaine regularly
- convoked — Simple past tense and past participle of convoke.
- copydesk — desk where newspaper copy is edited
- cordlike — a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- creekbed — Alternative spelling of creek bed.
- crinkled — marked with crenellations
- cuckooed — Simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo.
- damasked — a reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, or wool, woven with patterns.
- damasken — Alternative form of damascene.
- dankness — unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
- dark age — If you refer to a period in the history of a society as a dark age, you think that it is characterized by a lack of knowledge and progress.
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- darkened — A darkened building or room has no lights on inside it.
- darkener — One who or that which darkens.
- darkness — the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- datebook — a notebook in which a person keeps a personal record of daily events, appointments, etc
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- daybreak — Daybreak is the time in the morning when light first appears.
- de bakey — Michael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.
- de klerk — F(rederik) W(illem). born 1936, South African statesman; president (1989–94), second executive deputy president (1994–97). In 1990 he legalized the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison, and initiated the abolition of apartheid: Nobel peace prize 1993 jointly with Mandela
- de koven — (Henry Louis) Reginald, 1861–1920, U.S. composer, conductor, and music critic.
- de kruif — Paul (Henry)1890-1971; U.S. bacteriologist & writer
- dead key — a key on the keyboard of a typewriter which does not automatically advance the carriage when depressed
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debunked — Simple past tense and past participle of debunk.
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deck lid — the hinged lid forming the upper surface of an automobile deck.
- deck log — a log filled in by the officer of the watch at the end of each watch, giving details of weather, navigation, unusual happenings, etc.
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- deckhand — A deckhand is a person who does the cleaning and other work on the deck of a ship.
- deckhead — the undersurface of a deck.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.
- dedekind — (Julius Wilhelm) Richard (ˈjuːlɪʊs ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈrixɑːt). 1831–1916, German mathematician, who devised a way (the Dedekind cut) of according irrational and rational numbers the same status
- deerlike — resembling a deer
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- defrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrock.
- dehooker — a device for removing a hook from a fish.
- dehusked — Simple past tense and past participle of dehusk.