7-letter words containing a, d, l, i
- bidault — Georges (ʒɔːrʒ). 1899–1983, French statesman; prime minister (1946, 1949–50). His opposition to Algerian independence led him to support the OAS: he was charged with treason (1963) and fled abroad
- bimodal — characterized by two modes
- bipedal — having two feet
- blading — the act or an instance of skating with in-line skates
- boabdil — original name Abu-Abdullah, called El Chico, ruled as Mohammed XI. died ?1538, last Moorish king of Granada (1482–83; 1486–92)
- c-linda — (language) The most widely used variant of Linda, with C as the base language. It is available from Sci Comp Assocs <[email protected]>.
- cabildo — a municipal council, or a town hall, in Latin America
- camelid — of or relating to camels
- cardial — (rare) Relating to the heart.
- caviled — Simple past tense and past participle of cavil.
- cedilla — A cedilla is a symbol that is written under the letter 'c' in French, Portuguese, and some other languages to show that you pronounce it like a letter 's' rather than like a letter 'k'. It is written ç.
- chalcid — any tiny hymenopterous insect of the family Chalcididae and related families, whose larvae are parasites of other insects
- chiliad — a group of one thousand
- citadel — In the past, a citadel was a strong building in or near a city, where people could shelter for safety.
- cladism — the cladistic method of classification.
- cladist — a specialist in cladistics
- claimed — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- claudia — a feminine name
- codical — Of or pertaining to a code or codex.
- codilla — the coarse parts of flax and hemp
- cordial — Cordial means friendly.
- cotidal — (of a line on a tidal chart) joining points at which high tide occurs simultaneously
- dactyli — an enlarged portion of the leg after the first joint in some insects, as the pollen-carrying segment in the hind leg of certain bees.
- daffily — In a daffy manner.
- dahlias — Plural form of dahlia.
- dahling — (as a term of address) darling (imitating a posh or pretentious person).
- dailies — of, done, occurring, or issued each day or each weekday: daily attendance; a daily newspaper.
- daimler — Gottlieb (Wilhelm) (German ˈɡɔtliːp ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1834–1900, German engineer and car manufacturer, who collaborated with Nikolaus Otto in inventing the first internal-combustion engine (1876)
- dalasis — Plural form of dalasi.
- dalgite — (Western Australia) A rabbit-eared bandicoot; a bilby.
- dallied — to waste time; loiter; delay.
- dallier — One who dallies; a procrastinator.
- dallies — Plural form of dally.
- danakil — Afar.
- dandily — In a dandy way.
- daniels — Josephus1862-1948; U.S. statesman & journalist: secretary of the navy (1913-21)
- dariole — a small cup-shaped mould used for making individual sweet or savoury dishes
- darling — You call someone darling if you love them or like them very much.
- datival — (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
- daygirl — a girl who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening
- daylily — any lily of the genus Hemerocallis, having yellow, orange, or red flowers that commonly last only for a day.
- daysail — to go boating in a day sailer.
- deal in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- dealign — To put, or to become, out of alignment.
- dealing — selling or doing business in a particular commodity
- deasoil — deasil
- decimal — A decimal is a fraction that is written in the form of a dot followed by one or more numbers which represent tenths, hundredths, and so on: for example .5, .51, .517.
- declaim — If you declaim, you speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre.
- decrial — the act of decrying; noisy censure.
- deiseal — Motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun; a turning in this direction.