8-letter words containing l, d, r
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- day girl — a girl who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- daytaler — a worker who is appointed and paid on a daily basis
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- 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
- deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- declared — stated openly, officially, or formally
- declarer — a person who declares
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- decliner — One who declines.
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- deer fly — any of several tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, the female of which is a vector of tularemia in deer, livestock, and humans.
- deerlike — resembling a deer
- deferral — Deferral means the same as deferment.
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- deflower — to despoil of beauty, innocence, etc; mar; violate
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- delaware — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living near the Delaware River
- delayers — Plural form of delayer.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- deletory — something that deletes or erases
- delirium — If someone is suffering from delirium, they are not able to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way because they are very ill and have a fever.
- delivers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliver.
- delivery — Delivery or a delivery is the bringing of letters, parcels, or other goods to someone's house or to another place where they want them.
- delouser — a substance or device which removes lice from something
- delsarte — François [fran-swah;; French frahn-swa] /frænˈswɑ;; French frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1811–71, French musician and teacher.
- delubrum — a shrine or sanctuary
- delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- deluster — remove the lustre from
- delustre — to remove the lustre from (something)
- demersal — living or occurring on the bottom of a sea or a lake
- demurely — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- depleter — a thing that depletes something
- deplored — to regret deeply or strongly; lament: to deplore the present state of morality.
- deplorer — One who deplores.
- deplores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deplore.
- deployer — a person or thing that deploys
- deprenyl — a drug used to treat senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression, by acting as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- derailed — Cause (a train or trolley car) to leave its tracks accidentally.
- derailer — One who, or that which, derails.
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- derilict — Misspelling of derelict.
- dermally — In a dermal way; of or to the skin.
- desalter — an apparatus for desalting