8-letter words containing s, d, e, i
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- consider — If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
- cosigned — Simple past tense and past participle of cosign.
- cowhides — Plural form of cowhide.
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- criseyde — Cressida
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- daimones — disembodied souls
- dainties — of delicate beauty; exquisite: a dainty lace handkerchief.
- danaides — the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom
- danishes — Plural form of danish.
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- de stijl — a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada
- de vries — Hugo (ˈhyːxoː). 1848–1935, Dutch botanist, who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debitors — a debtor.
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- debrises — the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble: the debris of buildings after an air raid.
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- deceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deceive.
- decibels — a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave, equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the pressure produced by the sound wave to a reference pressure, usually 0.0002 microbar.
- deciders — Plural form of decider.
- decidest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of decide.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- deckings — Plural form of decking.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- deep-six — To deep-six something means to get rid of it or destroy it.
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- defensin — (protein) Any of a family of cysteine-rich proteins that are active against bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- deficits — the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
- definers — Plural form of definer.
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- dehisced — Simple past tense and past participle of dehisce.
- dehisces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehisce.
- deicides — Plural form of deicide.
- deictics — Logic. proving directly.