8-letter words that end in d
- dorkland — an offensive name for Auckland
- dormered — Having a dormer.
- dortmund — a city in W Germany.
- dowelled — Simple past tense and past participle of dowel.
- downhold — the act of keeping spending, expenses, losses, inflation, etc., as low as possible or advisable.
- downland — An area of rolling downs, often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone.
- 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.
- downtrod — tyrannized over; oppressed: the downtrodden plebeians of ancient Rome.
- downward — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- downwind — in the direction toward which the wind is blowing: We coasted downwind.
- drabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of drabble.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- drawcard — drawing card.
- dreibund — a triple alliance, esp that formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (1882–1915)
- drenched — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- dribbled — to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
- driveled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- drizzled — Simple past tense and past participle of drizzle.
- 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'.
- drownded — Simple past tense and past participle of drownd.
- druglord — the head of an organization or network involved in illegal drug trafficking.
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- drummond — Henry, 1851–97, Scottish clergyman and writer.
- drunkard — a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
- dry land — terra firma, earth
- dry-eyed — not weeping; unmoved.
- dry-shod — having or keeping the shoes dry.
- duckweed — any plant of the family Lemnaceae, especially of the genus Lemna, comprising small aquatic plants that float free on still water.
- dullened — Simple past tense and past participle of dullen; dulled.
- dumb bid — the undisclosed price set by the owner of something to be auctioned, below which no offer will be accepted.
- dumbhead — blockhead.
- dumfound — To confuse and bewilder.
- duneland — a tract of land dominated by sand dunes, often bordering on a beach.
- duplexed — duplex apartment.
- dwindled — Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.
- dytiscid — any carnivorous aquatic beetle of the family Dytiscidae, having large flattened back legs used for swimming
- ear band — a small ornament worn on the rim of the ear, shaped so as to grip the rim gently instead of piercing or squeezing it.
- east end — a section of E London, England.
- eastland — James O(liver) 1904–86, U.S. politician: senator 1941, 1943–78.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eastwood — Clint, born 1930, U.S. actor and director.
- eberhard — Johann August (joˈhan ˈaʊɡʊst). 1739–1809, German philosopher and lexicographer, best known for his German dictionary (1795–1802)
- ebonized — Simple past tense and past participle of ebonize.
- echinoid — belonging or pertaining to the class Echinoidea, comprising mainly sea urchins and sand dollars.
- echiurid — any of various unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Echiura, comprising the spoonworms.
- eclipsed — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- edgewood — a city in NE Maryland, near Baltimore.