8-letter words starting with di
- disports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disport.
- disposal — availability for use
- disposed — having a certain inclination or disposition; inclined (usually followed by to or an infinitive): a man disposed to like others.
- disposer — a person or thing that disposes.
- disposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispose.
- disposit — (transitive) To deposit.
- dispread — to spread out
- disprize — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disproof — the act of disproving.
- disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dispunge — to expunge
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputed — to engage in argument or debate.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disputes — Plural form of dispute.
- disquiet — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- disrobed — Simple past tense and past participle of disrobe.
- disrobes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrobe.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- dissects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissect.
- disseise — to deprive of seisin; wrongfully dispossess of a freehold interest in land
- disseize — to deprive (a person) of seizin, or of the possession, of a freehold interest in land, especially wrongfully or by force; oust.
- dissents — Plural form of dissent.
- disserve — to be a disservice to; serve harmfully or injuriously.
- dissever — to sever; separate.
- dissight — something unsightly; an eyesore
- dissolve — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- distally — situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal. Compare proximal.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distaste — dislike; disinclination.
- distends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distend.
- disthene — (mineral) Kyanite.
- distills — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distill.
- distinct — distinguished as not being the same; not identical; separate (sometimes followed by from): His private and public lives are distinct.
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- distorts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distort.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrail — dissipation trail.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrait — inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- distrest — Obsolete form of distressed.
- district — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
- disturbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disturb.
- disunify — to destroy the unity of.