8-letter words starting with det
- detached — Someone who is detached is not personally involved in something or has no emotional interest in it.
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- detaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detach.
- detailed — A detailed report or plan contains a lot of details.
- detailee — An employee of a United States government agency on assignment or loan.
- detailer — a person who cares for (polishes, repaints, cleans, etc) cars
- detailly — In detail.
- detained — Simple past tense and past participle of detain.
- detainee — A detainee is someone who is held prisoner by a government because of his or her political views or activities.
- detainer — the wrongful withholding of the property of another person
- detangle — to remove tangles from (hair)
- detassel — to remove the upper, pollen-bearing part (the tassel) of a corn (maize) plant and place it on the ground. This is done to one variety of corn in a plantation containing two varieties, so that all the corn will be pollinated by a single variety, thus producing fertile hybrids
- detected — to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act: to detect someone cheating.
- detector — A detector is an instrument which is used to discover that something is present somewhere, or to measure how much of something there is.
- deterges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deterge.
- determin — Obsolete form of determine.
- deterred — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- deterrer — a person who or a thing that deters
- detested — to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
- detester — Someone who detests, a hater.
- dethatch — to remove dead grass from (a lawn)
- dethrone — If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
- deticker — an implement or chemical agent used to remove ticks (from an animal)
- detinues — Plural form of detinue.
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- detorted — Simple past tense and past participle of detort.
- detoured — Simple past tense and past participle of detour.
- detoxify — If someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol detoxifies, or if they are detoxified, they undergo treatment which stops them from being addicted.
- detoxing — Present participle of detox.
- detracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detract.
- detrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detrain.
- detraque — insane person
- detrital — rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
- detritus — Detritus is the small pieces of rubbish that remain after an event has finished or when something has been used.
- detrusor — a muscle in the wall of the bladder
- deturned — Simple past tense and past participle of deturn.
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