8-letter words starting with de
- defogged — Simple past tense and past participle of defog.
- defogger — A defogger is a device that removes condensation from the window of a vehicle by blowing warm air onto it.
- deforced — Simple past tense and past participle of deforce.
- deforcer — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- deforest — If an area is deforested, all the trees there are cut down or destroyed.
- deformed — disfigured or misshapen
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- defrayed — to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
- defreeze — the process of unfreezing
- defriend — to remove (a person) from the list of one's friends on a social networking website
- defrocks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrock.
- defrosts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrost.
- defrozen — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- deftness — dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- degassed — to free from gas.
- degasser — A degasser is a device which removes gas from drilling mud.
- degender — to degenerate
- deglazed — Simple past tense and past participle of deglaze.
- degorger — a device for removing a fishhook from the throat of a fish.
- degraded — disgraced, debased, depraved, etc.
- degrader — One who, or that which, degrades.
- degrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degrade.
- degrease — to remove grease from
- degummed — to free from gum.
- degusted — Simple past tense and past participle of degust.
- degutted — to remove the entrails of; disembowel; gut.
- dehisced — Simple past tense and past participle of dehisce.
- dehisces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehisce.
- dehooker — a device for removing a hook from a fish.
- dehorned — Simple past tense and past participle of dehorn.
- dehorner — A device for cutting the horns off an animal's head.
- dehorter — a person who dehorts
- dehulled — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- dehusked — Simple past tense and past participle of dehusk.
- dehyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
- deianira — a sister of Meleager and wife of Hercules. She unintentionally killed Hercules by dipping his tunic in the poisonous blood of the Centaur Nessus, thinking it to be a love charm
- deicidal — a person who kills a god.
- deicides — Plural form of deicide.
- deictics — Logic. proving directly.
- deifying — Present participle of deify.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- deigning — to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity; condescend: He would not deign to discuss the matter with us.
- deionise — Alternative spelling of deionize.
- deionize — to remove ions from (water) by the use of cation and anion exchangers
- dejected — If you are dejected, you feel miserable or unhappy, especially because you have just been disappointed by something.
- dejecter — One who casts down, or dejects.
- dejeuner — the morning meal