8-letter words containing n, i, d, e
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- declined — to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it.
- decliner — One who declines.
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- decoding — the act or the process of converting something from a coded form into a normal form
- decomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of ten squares.
- decoying — Present participle of decoy.
- decrying — Present participle of decry.
- decurion — a local councillor
- dedalian — relating to Daedalus
- 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
- dedicant — a person who devotes or dedicates
- dedition — (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
- deducing — Present participle of deduce.
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- defacing — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- 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.
- defensin — (protein) Any of a family of cysteine-rich proteins that are active against bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
- defiling — Present participle of defile.
- definate — Misspelling of definite.
- definers — Plural form of definer.
- defining — decisive; critically important: Taking a course in architecture was a defining turn in her life.
- definite — If something such as a decision or an arrangement is definite, it is firm and clear, and unlikely to be changed.
- defriend — to remove (a person) from the list of one's friends on a social networking website
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- deianira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm
- deifying — Present participle of deify.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- deigning — to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity; condescend: He would not deign to discuss the matter with us.
- deionise — Alternative spelling of deionize.
- deionize — to remove ions from (water) by the use of cation and anion exchangers
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delaying — to put off to a later time; defer; postpone: The pilot delayed the flight until the weather cleared.
- deleting — Present participle of delete.
- deletion — the act of deleting or fact of being deleted
- deligent — Archaic spelling of diligent.
- delinked — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- delphian — a native or inhabitant of Delphi.
- delphine — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of dolphins.
- deluding — Present participle of delude.
- deluging — Present participle of deluge.
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- dementia — Dementia is a serious illness of the mind.
- dementis — an official denial by a government of actions, aims, etc., ascribed to it.
- demijohn — a large bottle with a short narrow neck, often with small handles at the neck and encased in wickerwork
- demilune — an outwork in front of a fort, shaped like a crescent moon