8-Letter Words That Start With: DES

• an official report (usually sent in haste)

• the property of being prompt and efficient

• killing a person or animal

• the act of sending off something

• send away towards a designated goal

• the top of a desk

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• give a description of

• to give an account or representation of in words

• make a mark or lines on a surface

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• properly deserved

• belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot

• ruled by or characteristic of a despot

• characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty

• treated with dislike or contempt

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed

• remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed

• move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

• come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

• do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

• come as if by falling