8-letter words containing d, i, p
- 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.
- duckpins — Plural form of duckpin.
- dukeship — the position or status of a duke
- dumpings — Plural form of dumping.
- dumpling — a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soup or with stewed meat.
- dumpsite — dump (def 17).
- dyspneic — difficult or labored breathing.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopic — Dystopian.
- eclipsed — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- endpoint — The final stage of a period or process.
- epidemic — A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- episodic — Containing or consisting of a series of loosely connected parts or events.
- epoxides — Plural form of epoxide.
- equipped — Supply with the necessary items for a particular purpose.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- expedite — (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
- expiated — Simple past tense and past participle of expiate.
- expidite — Misspelling of expedite.
- feedpipe — a pipe through which something is supplied to a machine or system, for instance steam to an engine, or oil to a tank
- filliped — Simple past tense and past participle of fillip.
- 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.
- fishpond — a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.
- fissiped — any member of the suborder Fissipedia, carnivorous mammals that have separate toes, as bears, badgers, dogs, cats, and raccoons.
- flipside — (music) The B-side of a phonograph record.