8-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- diaspora — the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- dicaprio — Leonardo. born 1974, US film actor; his films include Romeo and Juliet (1996), Titanic (1997), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Django Unchained (2012)
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dispread — to spread out
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- doxapram — a drug used to stimulate the respiratory process
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- 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.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- drop-add — the period at the beginning of a term when students can sign up for new courses and drop courses for which they were previously registered
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- durgapur — a city in S West Bengal State, NE India.
- eardrops — an earring with a pendant.
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- endocarp — The innermost layer of the pericarp that surrounds a seed in a fruit. It may be membranous (as in apples) or woody (as in the stone of a peach or cherry).
- endpaper — A blank or decorated leaf of paper at the beginning or end of a book, especially one fixed to the inside of the cover.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- expander — One who expands; something that expands.
- feldspar — any of a group of minerals, principally aluminosilicates of potassium, sodium, and calcium, characterized by two cleavages at nearly right angles: one of the most important constituents of igneous rocks.
- firedamp — a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- fpm dram — Fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
- frampold — bad-tempered; peevish
- frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
- gladwrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed: used for wrapping food