8-letter words containing d, i, r, t
- dirtying — Present participle of dirty.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- discreet — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discrete — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- disenter — Obsolete form of disinter.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- disherit — to disinherit.
- disinter — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- dispirit — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- distorts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distort.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrail — dissipation trail.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrait — inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- distrest — Obsolete form of distressed.
- district — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
- disturbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disturb.
- dithered — Simple past tense and past participle of dither.
- ditherer — a trembling; vibration.
- diuretic — increasing the volume of the urine excreted, as by a medicinal substance.
- diverted — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- diverter — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- dniester — a river in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains to the Black Sea. About 875 miles (1410 km) long.
- doctrine — a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
- dolerite — a coarse-grained variety of basalt.
- dormient — sleeping; dormant.
- dorticos — Osvaldo [aws-vahl-daw] /ɔsˈvɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado) 1919–83, Cuban lawyer and statesman: president 1959–76.
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- driblets — Plural form of driblet.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifters — Plural form of drifter.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnet — Alternative spelling of drift net.
- driftpin — driftbolt (def 1).
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- drink to — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- drinketh — Archaic third-person singular form of drink.
- 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.
- druggist — a person who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.