8-letter words containing a, s, r, i
- curacies — Plural form of curacy.
- curtails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curtail.
- curtains — death or ruin; the end
- czarists — of, relating to, or characteristic of a czar or the system and principles of government under a czar.
- czaritsa — A czarina or tsaritsa.
- 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)
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- dartitis — (in darts) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- diagrams — Plural form of diagram.
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- diarised — Simple past tense and past participle of diarise.
- diarists — Plural form of diarist.
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dilators — Plural form of dilator.
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dioramas — Plural form of diorama.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- disabler — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disadorn — To deprive of ornaments.
- disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- disarmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarm.
- disarmer — A person who advocates or campaigns for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons.
- disarray — to put out of array or order; throw into disorder.
- 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.
- discards — Plural form of discard.
- disfavor — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disgrade — (obsolete) To degrade.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- dishoard — to put previously withheld (money) into circulation
- dishrags — Plural form of dishrag.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- dispread — to spread out
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- 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.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.