8-letter words containing d, e, p, r
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- dress up — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress-up — being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season.
- dried-up — depleted of water or moisture; gone dry: a dried-up water hole.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- drive-up — serving or accessible to customers who drive up in their cars: a drive-up taco stand; a drive-up window at a bank.
- drop tee — a tee having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- droppers — Plural form of dropper.
- dropsley — a dish of very small dumplings made from a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning dropped in small pieces into broth.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- dropzone — The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
- drupelet — a little drupe, as one of the individual pericarps composing the blackberry.
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- duplexer — an automatic electronic switching device that permits the use of the same antenna for transmitting and receiving.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- emplored — Simple past tense and past participle of implore.
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- endpaper — A blank or decorated leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- eslpdpro — ESL public domain version of Edinburgh Prolog for MS-DOS. The code is totally compatible with C-Prolog.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- evesdrop — Archaic form of eavesdrop.
- expander — One who expands; something that expands.
- expender — One who expends.
- exploder — Someone or something that explodes.
- explored — Simple past tense and past participle of explore.
- exported — Simple past tense and past participle of export.
- eyedrops — Plural form of eyedrop.
- feldspar — any of a group of minerals, principally aluminosilicates of potassium, sodium, and calcium, characterized by two cleavages at nearly right angles: one of the most important constituents of igneous rocks.
- fired up — enthusiastic, excited
- firedamp — a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- foredeep — an elongate sediment-filled sea-floor depression bordering an island arc or other orogenic belt.
- forspend — to exhaust financially
- grappled — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail