8-letter words containing r, o, s, i, e
- debitors — a debtor.
- derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
- derisory — If you describe something such as an amount of money as derisory, you are emphasizing that it is so small or inadequate that it seems silly or not worth considering.
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- devisors — Plural form of devisor.
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- 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
- discoure — Obsolete form of discover.
- discover — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- disenrol — to remove from a register
- disgorge — to eject or throw out from the throat, mouth, or stomach; vomit forth.
- dishorse — (archaic, intransitive) To dismount from a horse.
- disorbed — thrown out of orbit
- disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disrobed — Simple past tense and past participle of disrobe.
- disrobes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrobe.
- divorces — Plural form of divorce.
- dossiers — Plural form of dossier.
- dressoir — a cabinet of the 18th century, having a number of shallow shelves for dishes over a base with drawers and closed cupboards.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drowsier — Comparative form of drowsy.
- eeyorish — Alternative capitalization of Eeyorish.
- elsinore — Helsingør
- emersion — The process or state of emerging from or being out of water after being submerged.
- ensiform — Shaped like a sword blade; long and narrow with sharp edges and a pointed tip.
- environs — The surrounding area or district.
- epispore — the outer layer of certain spores
- ergotism — Poisoning produced by eating food affected by ergot, typically resulting in headache, vomiting, diarrhea, and gangrene of the fingers and toes.
- ericsson — John1803-89; U.S. naval engineer & inventor, born in Sweden: builder of the Monitor
- eriksson — Sven-Goran (ˈsfɛnˈɡɜːrən). born 1948, Swedish football manager; honours as a club manager include the UEFA Cup (1982) with Gothenburg, three Portuguese league titles with Benfica (1983, 1984, 1990), and the Italian league with Lazio (2000); head coach of the England national team (2001–06)
- erosible — able to be eroded
- erosions — Plural form of erosion.
- erotesis — (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby a question is asked in confident expectation of a negative answer.
- errorist — One who encourages and propagates error.
- escorial — a village in central Spain, northwest of Madrid: site of an architectural complex containing a monastery, palace, and college, built by Philip II between 1563 and 1584
- esoteric — Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
- essoiner — a person who essoins
- eversion — An act of turning inside out.
- exorcise — Drive out or attempt to drive out (an evil spirit ) from a person or place.
- exorcism — The expulsion or attempted expulsion of an evil spirit from a person or place.
- exorcist — A person, especially a priest, who practices exorcism.
- farinose — yielding farina.