8-letter words containing ad
- deadline — A deadline is a time or date before which a particular task must be finished or a particular thing must be done.
- deadlock — If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made.
- deadness — The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
- deadpans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deadpan.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- deadwood — dead trees or branches
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- decadent — If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure.
- deckhead — the undersurface of a deck.
- defilade — protection provided by obstacles against enemy crossfire from the rear, or observation
- degraded — disgraced, debased, depraved, etc.
- degrader — One who, or that which, degrades.
- degrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degrade.
- desk pad — a pad of paper for use on a desk
- devadasi — A hereditary female dancer and courtesan in a Hindu temple.
- diademed — Simple past tense and past participle of diadem.
- diadochi — the six Macedonian generals who, after the death of Alexander the Great, fought for control of his empire in the Wars of the Diadochi (321–281 bc)
- diadochy — the replacement of one element in a crystal by another
- dickhead — If someone calls a man a dickhead, they are saying that they think he is very stupid.
- disadorn — To deprive of ornaments.
- disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
- dispread — to spread out
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- dolmades — Plural form of dolmade.
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- download — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- drop-add — the period at the beginning of a term when students can sign up for new courses and drop courses for which they were previously registered
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- dumbhead — blockhead.
- e-reader — a portable electronic device used for reading books and other text materials that are in digital form.
- eggheads — Plural form of egghead.
- empanada — A Spanish or Latin American pastry turnover filled with a variety of savory ingredients and baked or fried.
- encradle — to put in a cradle
- enfilade — A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.
- engadine — the upper part of the valley of the River Inn in Switzerland, in Graubünden canton: tourist and winter sports centre
- enneadic — Of, relating to, or being an ennead.
- ensenada — seaport in N Baja California, Mexico, on the Pacific: pop. 260,000
- eradiate — (botany) Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.
- escalade — The scaling of fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack.
- escapade — An act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure.
- escapado — an escaped criminal
- estacade — a defensive arrangement of stakes
- evadable — That can be evaded.
- evadible — That can be evaded.
- extrados — The upper or outer curve of an arch.
- eyeshade — A translucent visor used to protect the eyes from strong light.
- facadism — the principle or practice of preserving the fronts of buildings that have elegant architectural designs; the construction of a modern building behind its old or original front.