8-letter words starting with de
- deterrer — a person who or a thing that deters
- detested — to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
- detester — Someone who detests, a hater.
- dethatch — to remove dead grass from (a lawn)
- dethrone — If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
- deticker — an implement or chemical agent used to remove ticks (from an animal)
- detinues — Plural form of detinue.
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- detorted — Simple past tense and past participle of detort.
- detoured — Simple past tense and past participle of detour.
- detoxify — If someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol detoxifies, or if they are detoxified, they undergo treatment which stops them from being addicted.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- detraque — insane person
- detrital — rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
- detritus — Detritus is the small pieces of rubbish that remain after an event has finished or when something has been used.
- detrusor — a muscle in the wall of the bladder
- deturned — Simple past tense and past participle of deturn.
- deucedly — devilishly; damnably.
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deuteric — of, pertaining to, or resulting from the metasomatic changes taking place in igneous rock or magma as it solidifies
- deutero- — second or secondary
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- deutzias — Plural form of deutzia.
- devachan — The place where gods abide, the
- devadasi — A hereditary female dancer and courtesan in a Hindu temple.
- devalued — having a reduced value or worth
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- devalues — Reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.
- devasted — Simple past tense and past participle of devast.
- deveined — Having had veins removed from.
- develope — Obsolete spelling of develop.
- develops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of develop.
- deventer — an industrial city in the E Netherlands, in Overijssel province, on the River IJssel: medieval intellectual centre; early centre of Dutch printing. Pop: 88 000 (2003 est)
- deverbal — (of a noun or adjective) derived from a verb.
- devereux — Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1566–1601, British statesman, soldier, and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I.
- deviance — the act or state of being deviant
- deviancy — deviant quality or state.
- deviants — Plural form of deviant.
- deviated — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- deviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deviate.
- deviator — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- devil of — (intensifier)
- devildom — the rule or power of the devil or devils
- deviless — a female devil
- deviling — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devilish — A devilish idea or action is cruel or unpleasant.
- devilism — a characteristic of the devil; behaviour proper to the devil