8-letter words containing s, a, d, i
- dishoard — to put previously withheld (money) into circulation
- dishpans — Plural form of dishpan.
- dishrags — Plural form of dishrag.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- disloyal — false to one's obligations or allegiances; not loyal; faithless; treacherous.
- dismally — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
- dismayed — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- displant — to dislodge.
- displays — Plural form of display.
- disposal — availability for use
- dispread — to spread out
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- distally — situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal. Compare proximal.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distaste — dislike; disinclination.
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrail — dissipation trail.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrait — inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- disusage — Gradual cessation of use or custom; disuse.
- disvalue — disesteem; disparagement.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- dizzards — Plural form of dizzard.
- docimasy — the close examination of a person or substance in order to determine nature, quality and characteristics, formerly used to describe the evaluation of aspirants for public office or citizenship in Ancient Greece, now used of assaying metallic ores
- donatism — (Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.
- donatist — a member of a Christian sect that developed in northern Africa in a.d. 311 and maintained that it alone constituted the whole and only true church and that baptisms and ordinations of the orthodox clergy were invalid.
- dorsalis — dorsal1 .
- doxastic — Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural.
- drabbish — Somewhat drab in colour.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- draffish — resembling draff
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drusilla — a female given name.
- dualisms — Plural form of dualism.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarfism — the condition of being a dwarf or dwarfed.
- dwarvish — Synonym of dwarfish.
- dynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces.
- dynamise — Alternative spelling of dynamize.
- dynamism — The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress.
- dynamist — A subscriber to the philosophy of dynamism.