8-letter words containing d, a, r, t, e
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- 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.
- dermato- — indicating skin
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
- desalter — an apparatus for desalting
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- detailer — a person who cares for (polishes, repaints, cleans, etc) cars
- detainer — the wrongful withholding of the property of another person
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- detraque — insane person
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- dielytra — a member of a genus of flowering herbaceous plants including bleeding heart
- digerati — People with expertise or professional involvement in information technology.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- 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.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- 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.
- elaterid — any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae (click beetles). The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies
- endurant — Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc.
- eradiate — (botany) Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.