8-letter words containing e, t, o
- 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.
- desterro — former name of Florianópolis.
- destroys — Put an end to the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it.
- detector — A detector is an instrument which is used to discover that something is present somewhere, or to measure how much of something there is.
- 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.
- detorted — Simple past tense and past participle of detort.
- detoured — Simple past tense and past participle of detour.
- detoxify — If someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol detoxifies, or if they are detoxified, they undergo treatment which stops them from being addicted.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- detrusor — a muscle in the wall of the bladder
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deutero- — second or secondary
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- deviator — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- devolute — (obsolete) To devolve.
- devotees — Plural form of devotee.
- 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.
- devoutly — Devoutly is used to emphasize how sincerely or deeply you hope for something or believe in something.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- dextrose — Dextrose is a natural form of sugar that is found in fruits, honey, and in the blood of animals.
- dextrous — dexterous
- diamonte — A seven-line poem describing two opposite subjects using only adjectives, nouns and participles.
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- diestock — a frame for holding a number of standard threaded dies for cutting screw threads.
- digestor — digester (def 2).