8-letter words containing s, t, e, r
- dextrose — Dextrose is a natural form of sugar that is found in fruits, honey, and in the blood of animals.
- dextrous — dexterous
- diestrus — (in female mammals) an interval of sexual inactivity between periods of estrus.
- digester — a person or thing that digests.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- diluters — Plural form of diluter.
- 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.
- 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.
- discreet — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discrete — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- disenter — Obsolete form of disinter.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- disherit — to disinherit.
- disinter — to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- distrest — Obsolete form of distressed.
- dniester — a river in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains to the Black Sea. About 875 miles (1410 km) long.
- doomster — a doomsayer.
- doorstep — a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.
- dopester — a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- dosseret — a supplementary capital or thickened abacus, as in Byzantine architecture.
- doubters — Plural form of doubter.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- drabbest — Superlative form of drab.
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- driblets — Plural form of driblet.
- drifters — Plural form of drifter.
- drollest — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- drum set — kit consisting of several drums
- drunkest — Superlative form of drunk.
- druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- earliest — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- earnests — Plural form of earnest.
- earthset — the apparent setting of the earth below the lunar horizon, as seen from a satellite or similar spacecraft emerging from the far side of the moon
- easterly — moving, directed, or situated toward the east: an easterly course.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.