8-letter words containing a, d, r, i, t
- dermatic — (dated) Of or relating to the skin; dermic.
- detailer — a person who cares for (polishes, repaints, cleans, etc) cars
- detainer — the wrongful withholding of the property of another person
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- detrital — rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
- deviator — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- diameter — The diameter of a round object is the length of a straight line that can be drawn across it, passing through the middle of it.
- diametre — Alternative form of diameter.
- diarists — Plural form of diarist.
- diatreme — a volcanic vent produced in a solid rock structure by the explosive energy of gases in magmas.
- diatribe — A diatribe is an angry speech or article which is extremely critical of someone's ideas or activities.
- diatryma — A big-beaked prehistoric bird in the genus Gastornis, larger than the ostrich, believed to have become extinct 15- to 25-million years ago due to a vast climate change.
- dicentra — any Asian or North American plant of the genus Dicentra, such as bleeding heart and Dutchman's-breeches, having finely divided leaves and ornamental clusters of drooping flowers: family Fumariaceae
- dictator — A dictator is a ruler who has complete power in a country, especially power which was obtained by force and is used unfairly or cruelly.
- dielytra — a member of a genus of flowering herbaceous plants including bleeding heart
- diffract — to break up or bend by diffraction.
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- digirati — digerati
- dilators — Plural form of dilator.
- dilatory — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dirt bag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- dirtball — (slang, derogatory) A dirty or sleazy person.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrail — dissipation trail.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrait — inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- elaterid — any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae (click beetles). The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies
- eradiate — (botany) Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- gradatim — (in prescriptions) by degrees; gradually.