8-letter words containing n, i, d, e
- donative — a gift or donation.
- donicker — bathroom; toilet.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- dormient — sleeping; dormant.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downline — Alternative spelling of down line.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downtime — a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
- doziness — The state of being dozy.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- dredging — Present participle of dredge.
- dreibund — a triple alliance, esp that formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (1882–1915)
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- driftnet — Alternative spelling of drift net.
- drinkers — Plural form of drinker.
- drinkery — barroom; tavern.
- drinketh — Archaic third-person singular form of drink.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drive-in — a motion-picture theater, refreshment stand, bank, or other public facility designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- drumline — A group of percussionists in a marching band.
- dry wine — wine that is not sweet
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- duetting — turn-taking by two birds in the execution of a song pattern.
- duettino — a duet that is brief and to the point
- dukeling — an inferior or minor duke
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- dunelike — Resembling a dune or some aspect of one.
- duvetine — a napped fabric, in a twilled or plain weave, of cotton, wool, silk, or rayon.
- dwelling — Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- dwindled — Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- dye-line — a contact print of a line drawing, giving brown lines on an off-white background.
- dynamise — Alternative spelling of dynamize.