8-letter words containing d, i, p, r
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispirit — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- dispread — to spread out
- disprize — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disproof — the act of disproving.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- dried-up — depleted of water or moisture; gone dry: a dried-up water hole.
- driftpin — driftbolt (def 1).
- drink up — finish beverage
- 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.
- drip-dry — wash-and-wear.
- 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.
- drippily — In a drippy way.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- 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.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- dropkick — (football) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
- 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.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drypoint — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- 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.
- 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.
- fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
- grid map — a map on which a network of horizontal and vertical lines are superimposed, for locating points
- groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- handgrip — the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting: a firm but friendly handgrip.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- hesperid — any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper
- hydropic — dropsical.
- impaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- imparted — Simple past tense and past participle of impart.