8-letter words containing t, e, r
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- deemster — the title of one of the two justices in the Isle of Man
- deermeat — Alternative spelling of deer meat.
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- deferent — (esp of a bodily nerve, vessel, or duct) conveying an impulse, fluid, etc, outwards, down, or away; efferent
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflator — (economics) A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
- deforest — If an area is deforested, all the trees there are cut down or destroyed.
- defrosts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defrost.
- dehorter — a person who dehorts
- dejecter — One who casts down, or dejects.
- deletory — something that deletes or erases
- delsarte — François [fran-swah;; French frahn-swa] /frænˈswɑ;; French frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1811–71, French musician and teacher.
- deluster — remove the lustre from
- delustre — to remove the lustre from (something)
- demarket — to discourage consumers from buying (a particular product), either because it is faulty or because it could jeopardize the seller's reputation
- dementor — Evil and fearsome creature.
- demerits — Plural form of demerit.
- demister — A demister is the same as a defogger.
- democrat — A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- dempster — Arthur Jeffrey, 1886–1950, U.S. physicist.
- denature — to change the nature of
- dendrite — any of the short branched threadlike extensions of a nerve cell, which conduct impulses towards the cell body
- dentaria — a genus of plant within the family Brassicaceae, in some systems of classification considered identical with the genus Cardimime
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- dentures — Dentures are artificial teeth worn by people who no longer have all their own teeth.
- departed — Departed friends or relatives are people who have died.
- departee — a person who departs or has departed
- departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys
- depicter — A person who depicts (a specified subject).
- depictor — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depleter — a thing that depletes something
- deported — Simple past tense and past participle of deport.
- deportee — A deportee is someone who is being deported.
- deporter — a person or thing that deports
- depretis — Agostino (aɡoˈstiːno). 1813–87, Italian statesman; prime minister (1876–78; 1878–79; 1881–87). His policy led to the Triple Alliance (1882) between Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany
- deptford — a district in the Greater London borough of Lewisham, on the S bank of the River Thames: formerly the site of the Royal Naval dockyard
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- derating — Present participle of derate.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- deratize — to carry out the deratization of.
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- derilict — Misspelling of derelict.
- derivate — derived