8-letter words containing s, a, d, i
- davisson — Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dayflies — Plural form of dayfly.
- daysides — Plural form of dayside.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- dealfish — any deep-sea teleost fish of the genus Trachipterus, esp T. arcticus, related to the ribbonfishes and having a very long tapelike body and a fan-shaped tail fin
- dealings — Someone's dealings with a person or organization are the relations that they have with them or the business that they do with them.
- deanship — Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
- debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- decimals — pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
- declaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declaim.
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- despairs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despair.
- despisal — contempt; the act of despising; scorn
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- deutzias — Plural form of deutzia.
- devadasi — A hereditary female dancer and courtesan in a Hindu temple.
- deviants — Plural form of deviant.
- deviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deviate.
- diabasic — Pertaining to, or containing, diabase.
- diabetes — Diabetes is a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in their blood.
- diabolos — Plural form of diabolo.
- diagnose — If someone or something is diagnosed as having a particular illness or problem, their illness or problem is identified. If an illness or problem is diagnosed, it is identified.
- diagrams — Plural form of diagram.
- dialects — Plural form of dialect.
- dialysed — to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.
- dialyser — a machine that performs dialysis, esp one that removes impurities from the blood of patients with malfunctioning kidneys; kidney machine
- dialyses — Physical Chemistry. the separation of crystalloids from colloids in a solution by diffusion through a membrane.
- dialysis — Dialysis or kidney dialysis is a method of treating kidney failure by using a machine to remove waste material from the kidneys.
- dialyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dialyze.
- diamonds — one of the four suits in an ordinary pack of cards bearing red lozenge-shapes symbols
- dianthus — any Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant of the widely cultivated genus Dianthus, such as the carnation, pink, and sweet william
- 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
- diarised — Simple past tense and past participle of diarise.
- diarists — Plural form of diarist.
- 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)
- diastase — any of a group of enzymes that hydrolyse starch to maltose. They are present in germinated barley and in the pancreas
- diastema — an abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in a bodily organ or part
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- diastyle — having columns about three diameters apart
- diazines — Plural form of diazine.
- diazoles — Plural form of diazole.
- dichasia — Plural form of dichasium.
- dickslap — (slang, rare) An objectionable person.
- dictates — authoritative commands or rules
- die-cast — formed by die casting.