8-letter words containing u, n, e
- danseuse — a female ballet dancer
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- debunked — Simple past tense and past participle of debunk.
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- decurion — a local councillor
- dedendum — (on a gear or rack) the radial distance between the pitch circle or line and the root circle or line. Compare addendum (def 3a).
- deducing — Present participle of deduce.
- defluent — running downwards
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- dejeuner — the morning meal
- delaunay — Robert (rɔbɛr). 1885–1941, French painter, whose abstract use of colour characterized Orphism, an attempt to introduce more colour into austere forms of Cubism
- deluding — Present participle of delude.
- deluging — Present participle of deluge.
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- demilune — an outwork in front of a fort, shaped like a crescent moon
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- dentures — Dentures are artificial teeth worn by people who no longer have all their own teeth.
- denudate — denuded; bare
- denuding — Present participle of denude.
- depurant — purifying
- deputing — Present participle of depute.
- detinues — Plural form of detinue.
- deturned — Simple past tense and past participle of deturn.
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- diluents — Plural form of diluent.
- dine out — to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
- dinguses — Plural form of dingus.
- disinure — to render unaccustomed
- dispunge — to expunge
- disunite — to sever the union of; separate; disjoin.
- document — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- dreibund — a triple alliance, esp that formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (1882–1915)
- drumline — A group of percussionists in a marching band.
- drunkest — Superlative form of drunk.