8-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- 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.
- djakarta — a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java.
- doctoral — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dog star — the bright star Sirius, in Canis Major.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- donatary — the recipient of a donation
- donators — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- donatory — a donee of the king, especially one given the right by the king to property obtained by escheat or forfeit.
- doormats — Plural form of doormat.
- dorothea — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- drabbest — Superlative form of drab.
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- 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.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- dry-salt — to cure or preserve (meat, hides, etc.) by drying and salting.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- dunnarts — Plural form of dunnart.
- 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.
- dustcart — a garbage truck.
- dynatron — an electron tube, usually a tetrode, that produces an oscillating current at certain frequencies
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- educator — a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.