8-letter words containing m, d
- damndest — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damnfool — (informal) Contemptibly foolish.
- 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
- damp box — a box that is lined with moist material for keeping clay in a plastic state.
- damp off — (of plants, seedlings, shoots, etc) to be affected by damping off
- damp-dry — (of something, such as a garment, that has been drying) nearly dry but still damp
- dampened — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dampness — Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- damrosch — Walter (Johannes)1862-1950; U.S. conductor & composer, born in Germany
- dandyism — a man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance; a fop.
- darkmans — night-time
- darkroom — A darkroom is a room which can be sealed off from natural light and is lit only by red light. It is used for developing photographs.
- darksome — dark or darkish
- dartmoor — a moorland plateau in SW England, in SW Devon: a national park since 1951. Area: 945 sq km (365 sq miles)
- datagram — a self-contained unit of data transmitted in a packet-switched network
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- day camp — a camp for children providing no sleeping facilities and attended only during the day on weekdays.
- day mode — phase
- day name — a name indicating a person's day of birth
- day room — A day room is a room in a hospital where patients can sit and relax during the day.
- daydream — A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- de mille — Cecil B(lount). 1881–1959, US film producer and director
- de palma — Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
- dead arm — temporary loss of sensation in the arm, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dead man — Building Trades. a log, concrete block, etc., buried in the ground as an anchor.
- dead men — empty bottles
- decagram — dekagram
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.
- december — December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Western calendar.
- decemvir — (in ancient Rome) a member of a board of ten magistrates, esp either of the two commissions established in 451 and 450 bc to revise the laws
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- decomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of ten squares.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- dedendum — (on a gear or rack) the radial distance between the pitch circle or line and the root circle or line. Compare addendum (def 3a).
- deemster — the title of one of the two justices in the Isle of Man
- deepmost — most deep; deepest
- deermeat — Alternative spelling of deer meat.
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- defoamer — anything which removes foam or prevents foam from forming
- deformed — disfigured or misshapen
- degummed — to free from gum.
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag