7-letter words containing a, n, d, e
- mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- mandean — a member of an ancient Gnostic sect extant in Iraq.
- mandela — Nelson (Rolihlahla) [raw-lee-lah-luh] /ˌrɔ liˈlɑ lə/ (Show IPA), 1918–2013, South African black antiapartheid activist: president of South Africa 1994–99.
- mandore — (musical instruments) An early form of lute, that gave rise to the mandolin.
- mandrel — a shaft or bar the end of which is inserted into a workpiece to hold it during machining.
- mangled — to smooth or press with a mangle.
- manmade — produced, formed, or made by humans.
- mantled — Simple past tense and past participle of mantle.
- manured — Simple past tense and past participle of manure.
- masoned — Simple past tense and past participle of mason.
- maunder — to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.
- meander — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
- medians — Plural form of median.
- mediant — the third degree of a major or minor musical scale.
- medinas — Plural form of medina.
- medusan — pertaining to a medusa or jellyfish.
- melinda — a female given name.
- menaced — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- mendota — Lake, a lake in S Wisconsin, in N Madison. About 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- mendoza — Pedro de [pe-th raw th e] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1487–1537, Spanish soldier and explorer: founder of the first colony of Buenos Aires 1536?.
- monades — plural of monas.
- mondale — Walter Frederick ("Fritz") born 1928, U.S. politician: senator 1965–77; vice president 1977–81.
- mundane — common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
- na-dene — a group of North American Indian languages, comprising the Athabaskan family, Eyak, Tlingit, and Haida, hypothetically considered to be descendants of a single protolanguage: the genetic relationship of either Tlingit or Haida to Athabaskan and Eyak is now disputed.
- naiades — Plural form of naiad.
- nakedly — In a naked manner; without concealing anything; blatantly or openly.
- nandine — a carnivorous mammal (Nandinia binotata) native to West Africa
- nannied — Simple past tense and past participle of nanny.
- nardine — an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- natured — having a temperament of a particular kind (usually used in combination): good-natured.
- needham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- negated — Nullify; make ineffective.
- netdead — (jargon, chat) The state of someone who signs off IRC, perhaps during a netburp, and doesn't sign back on until later. In the interim, he is "dead to the net".
- nethead — (slang) An obsessive Internet user.
- netload — A program to down-load Excelan TCP/IP software. The host's Ethernet address can be specified as netload -e aabbccddeeff where aabbccddeeff is a 12 hexadecimal digit number.
- nevadan — a state in the W United States. 110,540 sq. mi. (286,300 sq. km). Capital: Carson City. Abbreviation: NV (for use with zip code), Nev.
- new lad — a cultural stereotype, which is basically a throwback to a supposedly more masculine or macho image of masculinity in reaction against the supposedly feminized 'New Man' of the 1990s
- newmade — Newly made.
- nodated — knotted
- notated — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- notepad — a pad of blank pages for writing notes.
- novated — Simple past tense and past participle of novate.
- nuanced — a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
- nutated — Simple past tense and past participle of nutate.
- oceanid — any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea nymph.
- odonate — belonging or pertaining to the order Odonata, comprising the damselflies and dragonflies.
- one day — someday: an unspecified day in the future
- onstead — (UK, Scotland, dialect) A single farmhouse; a steading.
- operand — a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- ornated — Simple past tense and past participle of ornate.