8-letter words starting with de
- dealbate — having a white exterior or covering
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- dearborn — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit: automobile industry. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)
- dearness — beloved or loved: a dear friend.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- deathbed — If someone is on their deathbed, they are in a bed and about to die.
- deathday — the day or the anniversary of the day of a person's death.
- deathful — characterized by or causing death
- debacles — Plural form of debacle.
- debagged — to depants.
- debarked — Simple past tense and past participle of debark.
- debarker — a machine that strips bark from logs
- debarred — to shut out or exclude from a place or condition: to debar all those who are not members.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- debating — the activity of taking part in debates
- debation — Debating.
- debeaker — to remove the upper beak from (a bird) to prevent egg eating or attacks on other birds.
- debility — Debility is a weakness of a person's body or mind, especially one caused by an illness.
- debitage — lithic debris and discards found at the sites where stone tools and weapons were made.
- debiting — the recording or an entry of debt in an account.
- debitors — a debtor.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- deboning — to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone: Before cooking, the chicken breasts should be deboned with a small, sharp knife.
- debossed — to indent (a figure or design) into a surface: The design on the book's cover is debossed.
- debouche — an outlet, as for troops to debouch through
- debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- debrecen — a city in E Hungary: seat of the revolutionary government of 1849. Pop: 205 881 (2003 est)
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- debrises — the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble: the debris of buildings after an air raid.
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- debtless — something that is owed or that one is bound to pay to or perform for another: a debt of $50.
- debugged — to detect and remove defects or errors from.
- debugger — a program that is used to find and correct bugs in other programs
- debunked — Simple past tense and past participle of debunk.
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburred — to remove burrs from (a piece of machined work); burr.
- debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- 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.
- decagons — Plural form of decagon.
- decagram — dekagram
- decalage — the difference between the angles of incidence of the upper and lower wings of a biplane: A biplane has positive decalage if the angle of incidence of the upper wing is greater than that of the lower wing and negative decalage when the lower wing has the greater angle.
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalled — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- decalogy — A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- decamped — Simple past tense and past participle of decamp.