8-letter words containing d
- adapting — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- adaption — Adaption means the same as adaptation.
- adaptive — Adaptive means having the ability or tendency to adapt to different situations.
- adaptors — Plural form of adaptor.
- addebted — indebted
- addendas — a plural of addendum.
- addendum — An addendum is an additional section at the end of a book or document.
- adderley — Julian ("Cannonball") 1928–75, American jazz saxophonist.
- addicted — Someone who is addicted to a harmful drug cannot stop taking it.
- addiment — (immunology,archaic) synonym of complement.
- addition — An addition to something is a thing which is added to it.
- additive — An additive is a substance which is added in small amounts to foods or other things in order to improve them or to make them last longer.
- additory — additional
- addorsed — placed back to back
- adducent — that adducts
- adducing — Present participle of adduce.
- adducted — Physiology. to move or draw toward the axis of the body or one of its parts (opposed to abduct).
- adductor — a muscle that adducts
- adelaide — the capital of South Australia: Port Adelaide, 11 km (7 miles) away on St Vincent Gulf, handles the bulk of exports. Pop: 1 225 235 (2011)
- adelbert — a masculine name
- adenauer — Konrad (ˈkɔnraːt). 1876–1967, German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1949–63)
- adenitis — inflammation of a gland or lymph node
- adenoids — Adenoids are soft lumps of flesh at the back and top of a person's throat that sometimes become swollen and have to be removed.
- adenomas — Plural form of adenoma.
- adenosis — a minor glandular condition typified by swelling of the lymph glands
- adequacy — Adequacy is the quality of being good enough or great enough in amount to be acceptable.
- adequate — If something is adequate, there is enough of it or it is good enough to be used or accepted.
- adespota — anonymous works of poetry
- adessive — a grammatical case in Finno-Ugric languages indicating place
- adfected — (algebra, archaic, of an equation) Having different powers of the unknown quantity in its various terms.
- adfreeze — to adhere through the binding power of ice.
- adherend — a material attached using adhesive
- adherent — An adherent is someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or group.
- adherers — Plural form of adherer.
- adhering — to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling (usually followed by to): The mud adhered to his shoes.
- adhesion — Adhesion is the ability of one thing to stick firmly to another.
- adhesive — An adhesive is a substance such as glue, which is used to make things stick firmly together.
- adiantum — The maidenhair fern and related ferns (of the genus Adiantum).
- adiposis — obesity or excessive fatness
- adiprene — a polyurethane elastomer with exceptional abrasion resistance and strength
- adjacent — If one thing is adjacent to another, the two things are next to each other.
- adjoined — to be close to or in contact with; abut on: His property adjoins the lake.
- adjoints — Plural form of adjoint.
- adjourns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjourn.
- adjudged — to declare or pronounce formally; decree: The will was adjudged void.
- adjudges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjudge.
- adjugate — adjoint (def 1).
- adjuncts — Plural form of adjunct.
- adjuring — Present participle of adjure.
- adjusted — psychologically well or badly equipped to cope with reality and ordinary life and relationships