8-letter words containing i, d, r, s
- descries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descry.
- descript — Archaic form of described.
- descrive — to describe
- desertic — (of soil) developing in hot, dry climates
- designer — A designer is a person whose job is to design things by making drawings of them.
- desilter — A desilter is a device, usually a hydrocyclone, at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.
- desilver — to remove silver from; to deprive of silver
- desirest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'desire'.
- desireth — Archaic third-person singular form of desire.
- desiring — to wish or long for; crave; want.
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despiser — to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
- destrier — a war horse; charger
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- detritus — Detritus is the small pieces of rubbish that remain after an event has finished or when something has been used.
- devisors — Plural form of devisor.
- dhurries — Plural form of dhurrie.
- diagrams — Plural form of diagram.
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- diarised — Simple past tense and past participle of diarise.
- diarists — Plural form of diarist.
- 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)
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- diereses — Plural form of dieresis.
- dieresis — the separation of two adjacent vowels, dividing one syllable into two.
- diestrus — (in female mammals) an interval of sexual inactivity between periods of estrus.
- diffuser — a person or thing that diffuses.
- diffusor — a person or thing that diffuses.
- digester — a person or thing that digests.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dilators — Plural form of dilator.
- diluters — Plural form of diluter.
- dimerise — Alternative spelling of dimerize.
- dimerous — consisting of or divided into two parts.
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- diopters — Plural form of diopter.
- dioptres — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- dioramas — Plural form of diorama.
- diorites — Plural form of diorite.
- dioscuri — the Greek name for Castor and Pollux, when considered together
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- direness — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirigist — Of or pertaining to dirigisme.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- dirtiest — Superlative form of dirty.
- dirtless — Free of dirt.
- dirtside — (science fiction) On the surface of a planet or moon (i.e. not in space).