8-letter words containing d, i, p
- dipstick — a rod for measuring the depth of a liquid; especially, a thin metal rod used to measure the oil level in the crankcase of an automotive engine.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- dipthong — Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
- diptychs — Plural form of diptych.
- disapply — (transitive, legal) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.
- disciple — Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- dish top — a circular table top upturned at the edge.
- 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
- dispence — Obsolete form of dispense.
- dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- 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.
- dispised — Simple past tense and past participle of dispise.
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- displant — to dislodge.
- displays — Plural form of display.
- displume — to strip of plumes; deplume.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposal — availability for use
- disposed — having a certain inclination or disposition; inclined (usually followed by to or an infinitive): a man disposed to like others.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- disposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispose.
- disposit — (transitive) To deposit.
- 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.
- dispunge — to expunge
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputed — to engage in argument or debate.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disputes — Plural form of dispute.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- divvy up — divide, share out
- dogeship — the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dolphins — Plural form of dolphin.
- 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.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downspin — spin (def 19).