8-letter words containing s, t, a, i, d
- dictates — authoritative commands or rules
- die-cast — formed by die casting.
- digitals — Plural form of digital.
- dilators — Plural form of dilator.
- dingbats — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- 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.
- discants — Plural form of discant.
- dishabit — to dislodge
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- displant — to dislodge.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- 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.
- 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.
- doxastic — Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion; conjectural.
- dynamist — A subscriber to the philosophy of dynamism.
- dynastic — Pertaining to a dynasty.
- dystaxia — (pathology, rare) ataxia.
- dystaxic — relating to or affected by dystaxia
- dystocia — Difficult birth, typically caused by a large or awkwardly positioned fetus, by smallness of the maternal pelvis, or by failure of the uterus and cervix to contract and expand normally.
- dystonia — abnormal tone of any tissue.
- dystopia — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- eastside — (US) The east side of a district or city.
- factoids — Plural form of factoid.
- gaudiest — Superlative form of gaudy.
- handiest — superlative form of handy: most handy.
- handlist — a list, as of the contents of a collection, containing few details
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hindcast — to test (a mathematical model) by observing whether it would have correctly predicted a historical event
- hydatids — Plural form of hydatid.
- idealist — a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. Synonyms: optimist, perfectionist, reformer, visionary, utopianist. Antonyms: pragmatist, skeptic, cynic.
- impasted — Simple past tense and past participle of impaste.
- inkstand — a small stand, usually on a desk, for holding ink, pens, etc.
- instated — to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- isolated — compact
- jihadist — a jihadi.
- katydids — Plural form of katydid.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- mastoids — of or relating to the mastoid process.