8-letter words containing i, s, t, o
- cosmetic — Cosmetics are substances such as lipstick or powder, which people put on their face to make themselves look more attractive.
- costings — Plural form of costing.
- costlier — costing much; expensive; high in price: a costly emerald bracelet; costly medical care.
- coteries — Plural form of coterie.
- cottiers — Plural form of cottier.
- counties — Plural form of county.
- creolist — a student of creole languages
- crosstie — a sleeper between rails on a railway
- crostini — pieces of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- crostino — piece of toasted bread served with a savoury topping
- cursitor — (in the Court of Chancery) a clerk or officer
- custodia — (rare) pyx (container for the host).
- cyrtosis — Pathology. any abnormal curvature of the spine or of the extremities.
- cytosine — a white crystalline pyrimidine occurring in nucleic acids; 6-amino-2-hydroxy pyrimidine. Formula: C4H5N3O
- debitors — a debtor.
- deltoids — Plural form of deltoid.
- demonist — A believer in, or worshipper of, demons.
- deposite — Obsolete spelling of deposit.
- deposits — Plural form of deposit.
- 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.
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- dictions — style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
- diestock — a frame for holding a number of standard threaded dies for cutting screw threads.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- dilators — Plural form of dilator.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- 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.
- diorites — Plural form of diorite.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- discotic — (chemistry) Describing disc-shaped liquid crystals.
- discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- dish out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- dish top — a circular table top upturned at the edge.
- disjoint — to separate or disconnect the joints or joinings of.
- dismount — to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposit — (transitive) To deposit.
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- distorts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distort.
- ditokous — producing two young or laying two eggs at a time.
- docetism — an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
- docetist — One who believes in docetism.
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- domotics — Robotic technology for use in the home.
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- dorticos — Osvaldo [aws-vahl-daw] /ɔsˈvɑl dɔ/ (Show IPA), (Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado) 1919–83, Cuban lawyer and statesman: president 1959–76.
- dottings — Plural form of dotting.