8-letter words containing p, a, e, d
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- diazepam — a chemical compound used as a minor tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and to treat acute epilepsy. Formula: C16H13ClN2O
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- dispread — to spread out
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- 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.
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- dungheap — pile of dung
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- dyspneal — Alt form dyspnoeal.
- dyspnoea — Alternative spelling of dyspnea.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- empanada — A Spanish or Latin American pastry turnover filled with a variety of savory ingredients and baked or fried.
- emplaced — Simple past tense and past participle of emplace.
- encamped — Simple past tense and past participle of encamp.
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- endpaper — A blank or decorated leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.
- endplate — any usually flat platelike structure at the end of something
- endplays — Plural form of endplay.
- enplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of enplane.
- epanodos — a return to main theme after a digression
- ependyma — (anatomy) A thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- escapade — An act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure.
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.