8-letter words containing s, i, t, e
- desilter — A desilter is a device, usually a hydrocyclone, at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.
- desinent — (obsolete) Ending; forming an end; lowermost.
- desirest — (archaic) Second-person singular present simple form of 'desire'.
- desireth — Archaic third-person singular form of desire.
- desisted — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
- desmitis — inflammation of a ligament.
- despited — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- despites — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.
- destined — If something is destined to happen or if someone is destined to behave in a particular way, that thing seems certain to happen or be done.
- destines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destine.
- destrier — a war horse; charger
- detinues — Plural form of detinue.
- 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.
- deutzias — Plural form of deutzia.
- deviants — Plural form of deviant.
- deviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deviate.
- diabetes — Diabetes is a medical condition in which someone has too much sugar in their blood.
- dialects — Plural form of dialect.
- 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
- dictates — authoritative commands or rules
- die stem — the South African national anthem until 1991, when part of it was incorporated into the current anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
- die-cast — formed by die casting.
- diestock — a frame for holding a number of standard threaded dies for cutting screw threads.
- diestrus — (in female mammals) an interval of sexual inactivity between periods of estrus.
- digested — Simple past tense and past participle of digest.
- digester — a person or thing that digests.
- digestif — a drink of brandy, liqueur, etc., taken after a meal to aid the digestion.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- digitise — to convert (data) to digital form for use in a computer.
- diluents — Plural form of diluent.
- diluters — Plural form of diluter.
- dinettes — Plural form of dinette.
- dingiest — Superlative form of dingy.
- dinkiest — Superlative form of dinky.
- 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.
- diorites — Plural form of diorite.
- dipsetic — Tending to produce thirst.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- 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).
- 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.