8-letter words containing d, o, t
- de-orbit — the act of leaving orbit
- deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
- deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.
- debation — Debating.
- debitors — a debtor.
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- dedition — (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- deepmost — most deep; deepest
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- deforest — If an area is deforested, all the trees there are cut down or destroyed.
- defrosts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrost.
- dehorter — a person who dehorts
- 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
- deletory — something that deletes or erases
- deltoids — Plural form of deltoid.
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- demivolt — a half turn on the hind legs
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- 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.
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- deponent — (of a verb, esp in Latin) having the inflectional endings of a passive verb but the meaning of an active verb
- deported — Simple past tense and past participle of deport.
- deportee — A deportee is someone who is being deported.
- deporter — a person or thing that deports
- deposeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deposeth.
- deposite — Obsolete spelling of deposit.
- deposits — Plural form of deposit.
- deptford — a district in the Greater London borough of Lewisham, on the S bank of the River Thames: formerly the site of the Royal Naval dockyard
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- dermato- — indicating skin
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
- 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
- desktops — Plural form of desktop.
- desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- despotat — the dominion of a despot
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.