8-letter words containing a, d, r, i
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- darkling — in the dark or night
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- darraine — clear of guilt
- dartitis — (in darts) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- day girl — a girl who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- day trip — A day trip is a journey to a place and back again on the same day, usually for pleasure.
- day-trip — to travel as a day-tripper.
- dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
- deadlier — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- debonair — A man who is debonair is confident, charming, and well-dressed.
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- 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
- denarian — One who is between the age of 10 and 19, inclusive.
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- dentaria — a genus of plant within the family Brassicaceae, in some systems of classification considered identical with the genus Cardimime
- deprival — to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy.
- deracine — uprooted
- derailed — Cause (a train or trolley car) to leave its tracks accidentally.
- derailer — One who, or that which, derails.
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- deratize — to carry out the deratization of.
- derivate — derived
- dermatic — (dated) Of or relating to the skin; dermic.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- 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.
- diablery — Sorcery.
- diagrams — Plural form of diagram.
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- dialyzer — an apparatus for dialyzing, esp. one used as an artificial kidney
- 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.
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- diarbekr — Diyarbakir.
- diarchal — Relating to, or pertaining to, diarchy or a diarchy system.
- diarised — Simple past tense and past participle of diarise.
- diarists — Plural form of diarist.
- diarized — Simple past tense and past participle of diarize.
- diarrhea — If someone has diarrhea, a lot of liquid feces comes out of their body because they are ill.