8-letter words containing r, e, a, d
- dead arm — temporary loss of sensation in the arm, caused by a blow to a muscle
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
- deadener — to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
- deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- deaerate — to take air out of (something)
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debarred — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decagram — dekagram
- decanter — A decanter is a glass container that you use for serving wine, sherry, or port.
- decenary — of or relating to a tithing
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- declared — stated openly, officially, or formally
- declarer — a person who declares
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- deermeat — Alternative spelling of deer meat.
- deeryard — a place where deer congregate to spend the winter
- defamers — Plural form of defamer.
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- deferral — Deferral means the same as deferment.
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- defoamer — anything which removes foam or prevents foam from forming
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- defrayed — to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
- degasser — A degasser is a device which removes gas from drilling mud.
- degraded — disgraced, debased, depraved, etc.
- degrader — One who, or that which, degrades.
- degrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degrade.
- degrease — to remove grease from
- 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
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- delaware — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living near the Delaware River
- delayers — Plural form of delayer.
- delsarte — François [fran-swah;; French frahn-swa] /frænˈswɑ;; French frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1811–71, French musician and teacher.
- demander — One who demands.