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8-letter words starting with de

  • de bakeyMichael Ellis, 1908–2008, U.S. physician: pioneer in heart surgery.
  • de dicto — relating to the expression of a belief, possibility, etc, rather than to the individuals mentioned, as in the number of the planets is the number of satellites of the sun, the truth of which is independent of what number that is
  • de facto — De facto is used to indicate that something is a particular thing, even though it was not planned or intended to be that thing.
  • de grootHuig [hœikh] /hœɪx/ (Show IPA), Hugo Grotius.
  • de klerk — F(rederik) W(illem). born 1936, South African statesman; president (1989–94), second executive deputy president (1994–97). In 1990 he legalized the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison, and initiated the abolition of apartheid: Nobel peace prize 1993 jointly with Mandela
  • de koven — (Henry Louis) Reginald, 1861–1920, U.S. composer, conductor, and music critic.
  • de kruif — Paul (Henry)1890-1971; U.S. bacteriologist & writer
  • de mille — Cecil B(lount). 1881–1959, US film producer and director
  • de palmaBrian, born 1940, U.S. film director.
  • de plano — without argument.
  • 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 vinneTheodore Low, 1828–1914, U.S. printer.
  • de vries — Hugo (ˈhyːxoː). 1848–1935, Dutch botanist, who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution
  • de-icing — the activity of removing ice or preventing its formation
  • de-orbit — the act of leaving orbit
  • deaconed — Simple past tense and past participle of deacon.
  • deaconry — the office or status of a deacon
  • dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
  • dead arm — temporary loss of sensation in the arm, caused by a blow to a muscle
  • dead end — If a street is a dead end, there is no way out at one end of it.
  • dead key — a key on the keyboard of a typewriter which does not automatically advance the carriage when depressed
  • dead leg — temporary loss of sensation in the leg, caused by a blow to a muscle
  • dead man — Building Trades. a log, concrete block, etc., buried in the ground as an anchor.
  • dead men — empty bottles
  • dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
  • dead sea — a lake between Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, now 420 m (1378 ft) below sea level; originally 390 m (1285 ft): the lowest lake in the world, with no outlet and very high salinity; outline, esp at the southern end, reduced considerably in recent years. Area: originally about 950 sq km (365 sq miles); by 2003 about 625 sq km (240 sq miles)
  • dead set — absolutely
  • dead-end — terminating in a dead end: a dead-end street.
  • deadbeat — If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society.
  • deadbeef — (convention, storage)   /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
  • deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
  • deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
  • deadened — Simple past tense and past participle of deaden.
  • deadener — to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
  • deadeyes — Plural form of deadeye.
  • deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
  • deadhead — A deadhead is someone who uses a free ticket to see a show, or for a plane or train trip.
  • deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
  • deadlift — a type of lift where the weight or barbell is lifted off the ground until the lifter is standing up straight
  • 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.
  • deaerate — to take air out of (something)
  • deafened — Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
  • deafness — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
  • deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.

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