8-letter words containing c, t
- decreets — Plural form of decreet.
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- decuplet — (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- dedicant — a person who devotes or dedicates
- dedicate — If you say that someone has dedicated themselves to something, you approve of the fact that they have decided to give a lot of time and effort to it because they think that it is important.
- deducted — to take away, as from a sum or amount: Once you deduct your expenses, there is nothing left.
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- defecate — When people and animals defecate, they get rid of waste matter from their body through their anus.
- defected — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- deficits — the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
- deflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflect.
- deictics — Logic. proving directly.
- dejected — If you are dejected, you feel miserable or unhappy, especially because you have just been disappointed by something.
- dejecter — One who casts down, or dejects.
- del city — a city in central Oklahoma.
- delectus — (obsolete) An elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.
- delicata — (North America) An heirloom variety of winter squash, oblong in shape and having a cream-colored skin with green stripes.
- delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- denticle — a small tooth or toothlike part, such as any of the placoid scales of sharks
- depeinct — to depict
- depicted — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depicter — A person who depicts (a specified subject).
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- derilict — Misspelling of derelict.
- dermatic — (dated) Of or relating to the skin; dermic.
- descants — Plural form of descant.
- descents — Plural form of descent.
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- desecate — (obsolete) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
- deselect — (of a constituency organization) to refuse to select (an existing MP) for re-election
- desertic — (of soil) developing in hot, dry climates
- despatch — dispatch
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- detached — Someone who is detached is not personally involved in something or has no emotional interest in it.
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- detaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detach.
- detected — to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act: to detect someone cheating.
- detector — A detector is an instrument which is used to discover that something is present somewhere, or to measure how much of something there is.
- dethatch — to remove dead grass from (a lawn)
- deticker — an implement or chemical agent used to remove ticks (from an animal)
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- deuteric — of, pertaining to, or resulting from the metasomatic changes taking place in igneous rock or magma as it solidifies