8-letter words containing l, a, d, i, e
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- caudicle — the stalk to which an orchid's pollen masses are attached
- cavilled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- chaliced — (of plants) having cup-shaped flowers
- ciliated — possessing or relating to cilia
- citadels — Plural form of citadel.
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- climaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of climax.
- 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.
- cordelia — a feminine name
- 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.
- 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.
- danielle — a feminine name
- danville — city in S Va., near the N.C. border: pop. 48,000
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- 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)
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- 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.
- 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.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decidual — the endometrium of a pregnant uterus that in many of the higher mammals is cast off at parturition.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- dedalian — relating to Daedalus
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- defilade — protection provided by obstacles against enemy crossfire from the rear, or observation
- deicidal — a person who kills a god.
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delative — noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place down from which.
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- delibate — to take a small taste of (a liquid)
- delicacy — Delicacy is the quality of being easy to break or harm, and refers especially to people or things that are attractive or graceful.
- delicata — (North America) An heirloom variety of winter squash, oblong in shape and having a cream-colored skin with green stripes.
- delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- deniable — able to be denied; questionable