7-letter words containing a, e, d
- descale — to remove the hard deposit formed by chemicals in water from (a kettle, pipe, etc)
- descant — A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
- deskman — a person who works at a desk in a workplace, esp the police sergeant in charge in a police station or a copy editor in a news office
- desmans — Plural form of desman.
- despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
- despawn — (video games) To dematerialize; to disappear from the game world.
- destain — to remove a stain from
- desugar — to rewrite (computer code) in a more refined and concise form; to remove all unnecessary syntactical elements from (computer code)
- details — an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- detains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detain.
- detract — If one thing detracts from another, it makes it seem less good or impressive.
- detrain — to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc
- detreat — (transitive) To reverse the treatment of.
- deutzia — any saxifragaceous shrub of the genus Deutzia: cultivated for their clusters of white or pink spring-blooming flowers
- devalue — To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
- deviant — Deviant behaviour or thinking is different from what people normally consider to be acceptable.
- deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- devisal — the act of inventing, contriving, or devising; contrivance
- dewater — to remove water from
- dewclaw — a nonfunctional claw in dogs; the rudimentary first digit
- dewfall — the formation or settling of dew; the dew which is deposited
- dewlaps — Plural form of dewlap.
- dextral — of, relating to, or located on the right side, esp of the body; right-hand
- dextran — a polysaccharide produced by the action of bacteria on sucrose: used as a substitute for plasma in blood transfusions
- dhegiha — a division of the Siouan language family, comprising the dialects spoken by the Omaha, Osage, Kansa, Ponca, and Quapaw.
- diabase — an altered dolerite
- diadems — Plural form of diadem.
- dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- dialled — a plate, disk, face, or other surface containing markings or figures upon which the time of day is indicated by hands, pointers, or shadows, as of a clock or sundial.
- diallel — (in genetic research, particularly into the genetics of plants) a scheme of cross-breeding within a select group of parents, designed to produce various hybrids with different genetic properties
- dialler — Alternative form of dialer.
- dialyse — to separate by dialysis
- dialyze — to apply dialysis to or separate by dialysis
- diamide — a chemical compound containing two amido groups
- diamine — any chemical compound containing two amino groups in its molecules
- diapers — Plural form of diaper.
- diaries — Plural form of diary.
- diarise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of diarize.
- diarize — to make use of a diary to record past events or those planned for the future
- diastem — a minor interruption in the deposition of sedimentary material
- diaster — the stage in cell division at which the chromosomes are in two groups at the poles of the spindle before forming daughter nuclei
- diazene — (inorganic compound) The compound HN=NH.
- diazine — any organic compound whose molecules contain a hexagonal ring of four carbon atoms and two nitrogen atoms, esp any of three isomers with the formula C4N2H4
- diazole — any organic compound whose molecules contain a pentagonal ring of three carbon atoms and two nitrogen atoms, esp imidazole (1,3-diazole) or pyrazole (1,1–diazole)
- dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- didache — a treatise, perhaps of the 1st or early 2nd century ad, on Christian morality and practices
- dieback — a condition in a plant in which the branches or shoots die from the tip inward, caused by any of several bacteria, fungi, or viruses or by certain environmental conditions.
- diehard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- dietary — of or relating to diet: a dietary cure.
- dilated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilate.