8-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- 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)
- diazepam — a chemical compound used as a minor tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and to treat acute epilepsy. Formula: C16H13ClN2O
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- digipack — a cardboard package for a compact disc or DVD
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- diphasic — having two phases; two-phase.
- diphonia — diplophonia.
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- diplomas — Plural form of diploma.
- diplomat — a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
- diplopia — a pathological condition of vision in which a single object appears double (opposed to haplopia).
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- disapply — (transitive, legal) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.
- dishpans — Plural form of dishpan.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- displant — to dislodge.
- displays — Plural form of display.
- disposal — availability for use
- dispread — to spread out
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- expiated — Simple past tense and past participle of expiate.
- firedamp — a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- grid map — a map on which a network of horizontal and vertical lines are superimposed, for locating points
- handgrip — the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting: a firm but friendly handgrip.