8-letter words containing d, n, o, t
- contends — to struggle in opposition: to contend with the enemy for control of the port.
- contused — Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
- cornuted — having horns
- cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
- cotingid — (zoology) Any member of the Cotingidae.
- cottoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cotton.
- couldn't — Couldn't is the usual spoken form of 'could not'.
- creodont — any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cynodont — a carnivorous mammal-like reptile of the late Permian and Triassic periods, whose specialized teeth were well developed
- d-notice — an official notice sent to newspapers, prohibiting the publication of certain security information
- da ponte — Lorenzo (loˈrɛntso), real name Emmanuele Conegliano 1749–1838, Italian writer; Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- debation — Debating.
- dedition — (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- deletion — the act of deleting or fact of being deleted
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
- 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.
- denotate — to denote (something)
- 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.
- deponent — (of a verb, esp in Latin) having the inflectional endings of a passive verb but the meaning of an active verb
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
- desknote — a computer that is similar in size to a notebook computer, but is designed to remain stationary, like a desktop computer
- dethrone — If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- 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
- diamonte — A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.
- diatonic — of, relating to, or based upon any scale of five tones and two semitones produced by playing the white keys of a keyboard instrument, esp the natural major or minor scales forming the basis of the key system in Western music
- dication — (chemistry) Any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
- dictions — style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
- dig into — to penetrate by or as by digging
- digitron — a type of tube, for displaying information, having a common anode and several cathodes shaped in the form of characters, which can be lit by a glow discharge
- diketone — a compound containing two C=O groups, as CH 3 COCOCH 3 .
- dilation — the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
- dilution — the act of diluting or the state of being diluted.
- dine out — to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.