8-letter words containing d, i, a, t
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- 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.
- dubitate — to doubt or be uncertain
- ducktail — DA.
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- dynamist — A subscriber to the philosophy of dynamism.
- dynamite — A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- dystaxia — (pathology, rare) ataxia.
- dystaxic — relating to or affected by dystaxia
- dystocia — Difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- eastside — (US) The east side of a district or city.
- eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- editable — (of text or software) in a format that can be edited by the user.
- elaterid — any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae (click beetles). The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies
- entailed — Simple past tense and past participle of entail.
- eradiate — (botany) Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- expiated — Simple past tense and past participle of expiate.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- fatigued — of or relating to fatigues or any clothing made to resemble them: The guerrilla band wore fatigue pants and field jackets. She brought fatigue shorts to wear on the hike.
- filiated — Simple past tense and past participle of filiate.
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- gaudiest — Superlative form of gaudy.
- get laid — have sex
- gift aid — a scheme that allows a charity to claim tax exemption on individual charitable donations
- gilthead — any of several marine fishes having gold markings, as a sparid, Sparus auratus, of the Mediterranean Sea.
- gladiate — having the shape of a sword; sword-shaped.
- goddamit — Alternative spelling of goddammit.
- gradatim — (in prescriptions) by degrees; gradually.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- habitude — customary condition or character: a healthy mental habitude.
- handiest — superlative form of handy: most handy.
- handlist — a list, as of the contents of a collection, containing few details
- hard-hit — adversely affected; struck by disaster.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardtail — blue runner.
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hindutva — (in India) a political movement advocating Hindu nationalism and the establishment of a Hindu state
- hydatids — Plural form of hydatid.