8-letter words containing d, i, e, o
- demijohn — a large bottle with a short narrow neck, often with small handles at the neck and encased in wickerwork
- demivolt — a half turn on the hind legs
- democide — (Mass) murder of people by a government which has power over them.
- demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- demoniac — of, like, or suggestive of a demon; demonic
- demonian — of, relating to, or resembling a demon
- demonise — to turn into a demon or make demonlike.
- demonish — Like or characterisic of a demon; demonic.
- demonism — belief in the existence and power of demons
- demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
- demonize — If people demonize someone, they convince themselves that that person is evil.
- demoting — Present participle of demote.
- demotion — to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.
- dendroid — freely branching; arborescent; treelike
- denotify — (transitive, India) To repeal the categorization of (a tribe) as criminal under the w Criminal Tribes Act.
- denoting — to be a mark or sign of; indicate: A fever often denotes an infection.
- denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depolish — to remove the polish from (an object)
- deposing — Present participle of depose.
- deposite — Obsolete spelling of deposit.
- deposits — Plural form of deposit.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
- derisory — If you describe something such as an amount of money as derisory, you are emphasizing that it is so small or inadequate that it seems silly or not worth considering.
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
- 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.
- detoxify — If someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol detoxifies, or if they are detoxified, they undergo treatment which stops them from being addicted.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deviator — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- devil of — (intensifier)
- devildom — the rule or power of the devil or devils
- devision — Obsolete spelling of division.
- devisors — Plural form of devisor.
- devoiced — having been made voiceless
- devoided — not possessing, untouched by, void, or destitute (usually followed by of).
- devonian — of, denoting, or formed in the fourth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, lasting 60-70 million years during which amphibians first appeared
- devoting — to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.: to devote one's time to reading.
- devotion — Devotion is great love, affection, or admiration for someone.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- dialogue — Dialogue is communication or discussion between people or groups of people such as governments or political parties.
- diamonte — A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- diazoles — Plural form of diazole.