8-letter words containing i, p, r
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despiser — to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe.
- 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.
- 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.
- dioptric — Optics. pertaining to dioptrics: dioptric images.
- diplexer — a device that can split and combine audio and video signals, permitting two transmitters to share the same antenna.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- diprotic — (of an acid) having two transferable protons.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispirit — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- dispread — to spread out
- disprize — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disproof — the act of disproving.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- dried-up — depleted of water or moisture; gone dry: a dried-up water hole.
- driftpin — driftbolt (def 1).
- drink up — finish beverage
- 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.
- drip-dry — wash-and-wear.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- drippily — In a drippy way.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- drive-up — serving or accessible to customers who drive up in their cars: a drive-up taco stand; a drive-up window at a bank.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- dropkick — (football) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.