8-letter words containing i, d, o, t
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- clotilda — ?475–?545 ad, wife of Clovis I of the Franks, whom she converted (496) to Christianity
- codirect — to direct jointly
- coeditor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- colletid — (zoology) Any member of the Colletidae.
- comedist — a writer of comedies.
- conduits — Plural form of conduit.
- copyedit — to edit (a manuscript, document, text, etc.) for publication, especially for punctuation, spelling, grammatical structure, style, etc.
- cotingid — (zoology) Any member of the Cotingidae.
- cotyloid — shaped like a cup
- creditor — Your creditors are the people who you owe money to.
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
- d-notice — an official notice sent to newspapers, prohibiting the publication of certain security information
- daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
- datolite — a colourless mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium and boron in monoclinic crystalline form, occurring in cavities in igneous rocks. Formula: CaBSiO4(OH)
- de dicto — relating to the expression of a belief, possibility, etc, rather than to the individuals mentioned, as in the number of the planets is the number of satellites of the sun, the truth of which is independent of what number that is
- de-orbit — the act of leaving orbit
- debation — Debating.
- debitors — a debtor.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- 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
- deltoids — Plural form of deltoid.
- demivolt — a half turn on the hind legs
- 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.
- 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.
- deposite — Obsolete spelling of deposit.
- deposits — Plural form of deposit.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
- 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.
- 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.
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deviator — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- 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.
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- diatomic — containing two atoms
- 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.