8-Letter Words Containing: D,A,T,O,S

• one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement

• enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide

• add oxygen to or combine with oxygen

• a substance that oxidizes another substance

• a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed

• the exterior curve of an arch

• The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.

• (of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.

• (of an operator) Hermitian conjugate.

• A functor related to another functor by an adjunction.

• A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used.

• An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.

• An assistant mayor of a French commune.

• An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It usually, but not always, has a positive voltage.

• (by extension) The electrode at which chemical reduction of cations takes place, usually resulting in the deposition of metal onto the electrode.

• The electrode from which electrons are emitted into a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.

• That electrode of a semiconductor device which is connected to the n-type material of a p-n junction.

• the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided

• the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand