8-letter words containing n, p, d
- deposing — Present participle of depose.
- deprenyl — a drug used to treat senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and depression, by acting as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- depurant — purifying
- deputing — Present participle of depute.
- desponds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despond.
- dew pond — a shallow pond, usually man-made, that is kept supplied with water by dew and condensation
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- dimpling — a small, natural hollow area or crease, permanent or transient, in some soft part of the human body, especially one formed in the cheek in smiling.
- dip into — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- diphenyl — biphenyl.
- diphonia — diplophonia.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dipnoous — having both lungs and gills for breathing
- dippings — Plural form of dipping.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipthong — Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
- dishpans — Plural form of dishpan.
- dispence — Obsolete form of dispense.
- dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- displant — to dislodge.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- dispunge — to expunge
- dognaper — to steal (a dog), especially for the purpose of selling it for profit.
- dolphins — Plural form of dolphin.
- dopamine — Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease. Compare dopa.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- downpour — a heavy, drenching rain.
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- driftpin — driftbolt (def 1).
- drink up — finish beverage
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- 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.
- dropdown — (computing, GUI, of a widget) Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.