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Showing words for DISPERSE using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Disperse

despiser, disperse, presides

7 Letter Words for Disperse

depress, desires, despise, esprise, pedesis, perseid, predies, preside, pressed, pressie, prissed, resides, speired, spersed, spiders, spiered

6 Letter Words for Disperse

deesis, desire, dieses, eiders, eprise, espied, espier, espies, peiser, perdie, perses, persis, pissed, pisser, preses, prides, redips, reises, repses, reside, resids, risped, seders, seised, sepsid, series, siders, sipers, speeds, speers, speirs, speise, sperse, spider, spiers, spired, spires, spreds, spreed, sprees, spried

5 Letter Words for Disperse

deeps, deess, deres, desse, dreep, drees, dress, dries, drips, eider, epris, erses, essed, isere, pedes, peers, peres, peris, perse, piers, preed, prees, press, pride, pried, pries, priss, redes, redip, reeds, resid, rides, riped, ripes, rises, risps, seder, sedes, seeds, seeps, seers, seirs, seise, sered, seres, sider, sides, siped, siper, sipes, sired, sires, speed, speer, speir, spide, spied, spier, spies, spire, spise, spred, spree

4 Letter Words for Disperse

deep, deer, dees, deis, depe, depr, dere, desi, dess, dier, dies, dips, dire, disp, dree, drie, drip, dsri, eide, eire, ered, eres, erie, eris, erse, eses, esse, idee, ides, ipse, ired, ires, irpe, ised, peds, peed, peer, pees, pere, peri, pers, pess, pied, pier, pies, pirs, pise, piss, pred, pree, pres, prie, psid, psis, rede, reds, reed, rees, reps, resp, ride, rids, ries, ripe, rips, rise, risp, seed, seep, seer, sees, seir, seis, sepd, seps, sere, sers, sese, side, sids, sier, sipe, sips, sire, sirs, sise, sped, spie, sris, ssed

3 Letter Words for Disperse

dee, dei, dep, der, des, die, dip, dir, dis, dpi, dsp, dsr, edp, eds, eer, eir, epi, erd, ere, ers, esd, ese, esp, esr, ess, ide, idp, ids, ipr, ips, ire, irs, ise, ped, pee, per, pes, pid, pie, pir, pis, pre, prs, psi, red, ree, rei, rep, res, rid, rie, rip, rps, sds, sed, see, sei, sep, ser, sie, sip, sir, sis, sps, sri, sse, ssp

Definitions for Disperse

[1] to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
[2] to spread widely; disseminate: to disperse knowledge.
[3] to dispel; cause to vanish: The wind dispersed the fog.
[4] Physical Chemistry . to cause (particles) to separate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid, or gas.
[5] Optics . to subject (light) to dispersion.
[6] to separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered: The crowd dispersed.
[7] to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish: The smoke dispersed into the sky.
[8] Physical Chemistry . noting the dispersed particles in a dispersion.
[9] to scatter; distribute over a wide area
[10] to dissipate or cause to dissipate
[11] to leave or cause to leave a gathering, often in a random manner
[12] to separate or be separated by dispersion
[13] (tr) to diffuse or spread (news, information, etc)
[14] to separate (particles) throughout a solid, liquid, or gas, as in the formation of a suspension or colloid
[15] of or consisting of the particles in a colloid or suspension disperse phase

Words related to Disperse

dispel, separate, dissolve, diffuse, dislodge, spray, spread, dissipate, disband, discharge, vanish, scatter, disappear, circulate, shed, dismiss, deal, eject, disseminate, rout

Words nearby Disperse

dispermy, dispersal, dispersal prison, dispersal zone, dispersant, disperse, disperse dye, disperse phase, disperse system, dispersion, dispersion hardening

Origin of Disperse

1350–1400; Middle English dispersen, disparsen (< Middle French disperser ) < Latin dispersus (past participle of dispergere ), equivalent to di- di-2 + -sper(g )- scatter (stem of -spergere, combining form of spargere to scatter, strew) + -sus past participle suffix

Words that may be confused with Disperse

disperse, disburse, disperse, dispose

Other words from Disperse

dis·pers·ed·ly [dih-spur -sid-lee] /dɪˈspɜr sɪd li/ , adverb
dis·pers·er , noun
dis·pers·i·bil·i·ty , noun
dis·pers·i·ble , adjective
pre·dis·perse , verb (used with object), pre·dis·persed, pre·dis·pers·ing.
re·dis·perse , verb, re·dis·persed, re·dis·pers·ing.
un·dis·persed , adjective
un·dis·pers·ing , adjective
well-dis·persed , adjective

Word origin for Disperse

C14: from Latin dispērsus scattered, from dispergere to scatter widely, from di- ² + spargere to strew

Synonyms for Disperse

break up, circulate, diffuse, disappear, disband, discharge, dislodge, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, scatter, separate, spray, spread, vanish, banish, besprinkle, broadcast, deal, disburse, dismiss, disseminate, eject, intersperse, partition, propagate, radiate, rout, scramble, shed, sow, strew, cast forth, divvy, dole out, measure out, send off, split up, take off in all directions