7-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- dotards — Plural form of dotard.
- drabbet — a yellowish-brown fabric of coarse linen
- drafted — Simple past tense and past participle of draft.
- draftee — a person who is drafted into military service. Compare enlistee (def 1).
- drafter — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragnet — a net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc.
- drastic — acting with force or violence; violent.
- dratted — damned; confounded (used as a mild oath): This dratted car won't start.
- draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dravite — a brown variety of magnesium tourmaline.
- drayton — Michael, 1563–1631, English poet.
- drybeat — to beat (someone) severely
- dunnart — Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
- durante — James Francis ("Jimmy") 1893–1980, U.S. comedian.
- duranty — Walter, 1884–1957, English journalist and author in the U.S.
- durmast — a European oak, Quercus petraea, yielding a heavy, elastic wood used for furniture and in the construction of buildings.
- dustrag — a piece of fabric that is used to dust surfaces
- earthed — (British) Grounded, connected electrically to the ground.
- educrat — An education administrator.
- entrada — (historical) An armed incursion of Spanish conquistadors into American territories.
- estrade — A dais or raised platform.
- fatbird — a small wading bird (Calidris melanotos) native to N America and Asia
- fracted — broken; having a part displaced.
- frontad — toward the front.
- g-rated — (of a motion picture) deemed suitable for viewers of all ages: a G-rated film.
- gardant — (of an animal) depicted full-faced but with the body seen from the side: a lion guardant.
- garoted — to execute by the garrote.
- gordita — A Mexican flatbread made from cornmeal and stuffed with meat, cheese, vegetables, or a sweet filling.
- gradate — to pass by gradual or imperceptible degrees, as one color into another.
- grafted — Simple past tense and past participle of graft.
- granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- gyrated — Simple past tense and past participle of gyrate.
- hardest — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hardhat — a construction worker, especially a member of a construction workers' union.
- hardtop — a style of car having a rigid metal top and no center posts between windows.
- harstad — a seaport in W Norway: herring fishing.
- hatreds — Plural form of hatred.
- hearted — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
- hoodrat — (slang) A sexually promiscuous girl.
- hydrant — an upright pipe with a spout, nozzle, or other outlet, usually in the street, for drawing water from a main or service pipe, especially for fighting fires.
- hydrate — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- ideator — One who ideates; one who holds or generates an idea, or synthesizes a concept.
- indraft — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- intrada — an introductory piece of music; prelude
- laterad — toward the side.
- leotard — a skintight, one-piece garment for the torso, having a high or low neck, long or short sleeves, and a lower portion resembling either briefs or tights, worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.
- lyrated — Alternative form of lyrate.
- madtran — Early preprocessor that translated Fortran to MAD, for gain in speed.
- madwort — a mat-forming plant, Aurinia saxatilis (or Alyssum saxatille), of the mustard family, having spatulate leaves and open clusters of pale yellow flowers.