8-letter words containing s, e, p, i
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- 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.
- dipodies — Plural form of dipody.
- dipsetic — Tending to produce thirst.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- disciple — Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- dispence — Obsolete form of dispense.
- dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispised — Simple past tense and past participle of dispise.
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- displume — to strip of plumes; deplume.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- disposed — having a certain inclination or disposition; inclined (usually followed by to or an infinitive): a man disposed to like others.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- disposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispose.
- dispread — to spread out
- disprize — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dispunge — to expunge
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputed — to engage in argument or debate.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disputes — Plural form of dispute.
- dogeship — the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- dukeship — the position or status of a duke
- dumpsite — dump (def 17).
- dyspneic — difficult or labored breathing.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- eclipsed — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- eclipses — Plural form of eclipse.
- eclipsis — (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.
- elapsing — Present participle of elapse.
- ellipses — Plural form of ellipse.
- ellipsis — The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
- emperish — to damage or harm
- emphasis — Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- empirics — Plural form of empiric.
- empoison — (obsolete) poison.
- emprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emprise.