8-letter words containing p, i
- despises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despise.
- despited — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- despites — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- 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.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diaglyph — any instance of artwork carved into the surface of a hard substance (predominantly stone or metal), such that the design is set back from the surface; an intaglio
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- 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
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- 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
- diapiric — of or pertaining to a diapir; of the nature of a diapir
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- 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)
- diazepam — a chemical compound used as a minor tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and to treat acute epilepsy. Formula: C16H13ClN2O
- 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)
- dice cup — a container, usually cylindrical and open at the top, in which dice are shaken to give them a random position and from which they are then thrown or rolled.
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- dig deep — find sufficient money
- digipack — a cardboard package for a compact disc or DVD
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- 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.
- diopside — a monoclinic pyroxene mineral, calcium magnesium silicate, CaMg(SiO 3) 2 , occurring in various colors, usually in crystals.
- 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.
- dioptric — Optics. pertaining to dioptrics: dioptric images.
- 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.
- dipchick — Alternative form of dabchick.
- diphasic — having two phases; two-phase.
- diphenyl — biphenyl.
- diphonia — diplophonia.
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- diplegic — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- diplexer — a device that can split and combine audio and video signals, permitting two transmitters to share the same antenna.
- diploidy — (genetics) The state of being diploid.
- diplomas — Plural form of diploma.
- diplomat — a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
- diplopia — a pathological condition of vision in which a single object appears double (opposed to haplopia).
- diplopod — belonging or pertaining to the class Diplopoda.
- diplosis — the doubling of the chromosome number by the union of the haploid sets in the union of gametes.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dipnoous — having both lungs and gills for breathing
- dipodies — Plural form of dipody.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped