8-letter words containing t, e, r
- dopester — a person who undertakes to predict the outcome of elections, sports events, or other contests that hold the public interest.
- dormient — sleeping; dormant.
- dorothea — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”.
- dosseret — a supplementary capital or thickened abacus, as in Byzantine architecture.
- dotterel — any of several plovers usually inhabiting upland areas, especially Eudromias morinellus, of Europe and Asia.
- doubters — Plural form of doubter.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- 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.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- driblets — Plural form of driblet.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifters — Plural form of drifter.
- driftnet — Alternative spelling of drift net.
- drinketh — Archaic third-person singular form of drink.
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drollest — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drop tee — a tee having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- drum set — kit consisting of several drums
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- drumette — the thick first section of a chicken wing that resembles a drumstick.
- drunkest — Superlative form of drunk.
- drupelet — a little drupe, as one of the individual pericarps composing the blackberry.
- druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
- dry rent — rent seck.
- 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.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- e-tailer — the selling of goods and services on the Internet or through email solicitation.
- ear tuft — a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.
- 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.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthier — Comparative form of earthy.
- earthily — In an earthy manner.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- earthman — a human inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthmen — Plural form of earthman.
- earthnut — any of various roots, tubers, or underground growths, as the peanut and the truffle.
- earthpea — the peanut.
- 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.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.