8-letter words starting with di
- diplosis — the doubling of the chromosome number by the union of the haploid sets in the union of gametes.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dipnoous — having both lungs and gills for breathing
- dipodies — Plural form of dipody.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped
- dippings — Plural form of dipping.
- diprotic — (of an acid) having two transferable protons.
- dipsetic — Tending to produce thirst.
- dipsosis — (medicine) Any condition characterized by excessive thirst.
- dipstick — a rod for measuring the depth of a liquid; especially, a thin metal rod used to measure the oil level in the crankcase of an automotive engine.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- dipthong — Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
- diptychs — Plural form of diptych.
- directed — proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique: a direct route.
- directer — Comparative form of direct.
- directly — in a direct line, way, or manner; straight: The path leads directly to the lake.
- director — a person or thing that directs.
- diredawa — a city in E Ethiopia.
- direness — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirgeful — Having the qualities of a dirge; moaning.
- dirigent — directing
- dirigist — Of or pertaining to dirigisme.
- diriment — causing to become wholly void; nullifying.
- dirt bag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- dirtball — (slang, derogatory) A dirty or sleazy person.
- dirtbike — An off-road motorcycle.
- 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).
- dirtying — Present participle of dirty.
- disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- disabler — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disables — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disable.
- disabuse — to free (a person) from deception or error.
- disadorn — To deprive of ornaments.
- disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disannex — to separate (a place or thing that was formally annexed or joined to another)
- disannul — to annul utterly; make void: to disannul a contract.
- disapply — (transitive, legal) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.
- disarmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarm.
- disarmer — A person who advocates or campaigns for the withdrawal of nuclear weapons.
- disarray — to put out of array or order; throw into disorder.
- 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.
- disavail — To disadvantage or harm.
- disavows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disavow.