8-letter words containing d, e, p
- despites — in spite of; notwithstanding.
- desponds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despond.
- despotat — the dominion of a despot
- despotic — If you say that someone is despotic, you are emphasizing that they use their power over other people in a very unfair or cruel way.
- develope — Obsolete spelling of develop.
- develops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of develop.
- dew pond — a shallow pond, usually man-made, that is kept supplied with water by dew and condensation
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- diapente — (in classical Greece) the interval of a perfect fifth
- diapered — a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
- diaphane — Something transparent or diaphanous.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diascope — an optical projector used to display transparencies
- diaspore — a white, yellowish, or grey mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium oxide in orthorhombic crystalline form, found in bauxite and corundum. Formula: AlO(OH)
- diazepam — a chemical compound used as a minor tranquillizer and muscle relaxant and to treat acute epilepsy. Formula: C16H13ClN2O
- dice cup — a container, usually cylindrical and open at the top, in which dice are shaken to give them a random position and from which they are then thrown or rolled.
- didapper — a little grebe or dabchick
- dig deep — find sufficient money
- diopside — a monoclinic pyroxene mineral, calcium magnesium silicate, CaMg(SiO 3) 2 , occurring in various colors, usually in crystals.
- dioptase — a mineral, hydrous copper silicate, CuSiO 3 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
- diopters — Plural form of diopter.
- dioptres — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- diphenyl — biphenyl.
- diplegia — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- diplegic — paralysis of the identical part on both sides of the body.
- diplexer — a device that can split and combine audio and video signals, permitting two transmitters to share the same antenna.
- dipodies — Plural form of dipody.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped
- dipsetic — Tending to produce thirst.
- dipteral — dipterous.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- dipteron — a dipterous insect.
- dipteros — (in ancient Greece) a building with a double colonnade on all sides
- disciple — Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- dispeace — an absence of peace
- dispence — Obsolete form of dispense.
- dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- dispermy — the fertilization of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispised — Simple past tense and past participle of dispise.
- displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- displume — to strip of plumes; deplume.
- disponee — the person whom something is disponed to
- disponer — someone who dispones
- 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.
- dispread — to spread out