8-letter words containing l, e, d, s
- cladodes — Plural form of cladode.
- cleansed — Simple past tense and past participle of cleanse.
- closeted — If you are closeted with someone, you are talking privately to them.
- clupeids — Plural form of clupeid.
- coalshed — a shed in which coal is stored
- codeless — lacking a code
- coldness — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- coleseed — the seeds or plants of the cole
- collides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collide.
- colludes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collude.
- coloreds — Plural form of colored.
- condoles — to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief (usually followed by with): to condole with a friend whose father has died.
- condyles — Plural form of condyle.
- consoled — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- cordless — A cordless telephone or piece of electric equipment is operated by a battery fitted inside it and is not connected to the electricity mains.
- couldest — Alternative form of couldst.
- culdesac — Alternative spelling of cul-de-sac.
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- cyclades — a group of over 200 islands in the S Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece. Capital: Hermoupolis (Ermoupoli, on Syros). Pop: 112 615 (2001). Area: 2572 sq km (993 sq miles)
- dabblers — Plural form of dabbler.
- daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
- dalesman — a person living in a dale, esp in the dales of N England
- dalesmen — Plural form of dalesman.
- damocles — a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
- danglers — to hang loosely, especially with a jerking or swaying motion: The rope dangled in the breeze.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- dateless — likely to remain fashionable, relevant, or interesting regardless of age; timeless
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- dayshell — a thistle
- dazzlers — Plural form of dazzler.
- de stijl — a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada
- 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.
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debtless — something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another: a debt of $50.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- decuples — Plural form of decuple.
- deedless — having no exploits or action
- defaults — Plural form of default.
- deflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflate.
- deflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflect.
- delayers — Plural form of delayer.
- delcasse — Théophile [tey-aw-feel] /teɪ ɔˈfil/ (Show IPA), 1852–1923, French statesman.
- delectus — (obsolete) An elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.