8-letter words containing r, e, d, s
- 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.
- desserts — Plural form of dessert.
- desterro — former name of Florianópolis.
- destress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- destrier — a war horse; charger
- destroys — Put an end to the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it.
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- desulfur — to free from sulfur; desulfurize.
- deterges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deterge.
- detester — Someone who detests, a hater.
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- 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.
- detrusor — a muscle in the wall of the bladder
- devisors — Plural form of devisor.
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
- dextrose — Dextrose is a natural form of sugar that is found in fruits, honey, and in the blood of animals.
- dextrous — dexterous
- dhurries — Plural form of dhurrie.
- 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.
- 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.
- digester — a person or thing that digests.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- diluters — Plural form of diluter.
- dimerise — Alternative spelling of dimerize.
- dimerous — consisting of or divided into two parts.
- 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
- direness — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- 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).
- disabler — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- disarmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarm.
- disarmer — A person who advocates or campaigns for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.