7-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
- del mar — Norman. 1919–94, British conductor, associated esp with 20th- century British music
- delater — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delator — An accuser; an informer.
- delayer — to prune the administrative structure of (a large organization) by reducing the number of tiers in its hierarchy
- deliria — Pathology. a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc.
- deloria — Vine, (Jr.) [vahyn] /vaɪn/ (Show IPA), 1933–2005, U.S. writer.
- demarco — Tom DeMarco proposed a form of structured analysis.
- denarii — a silver coin and monetary unit of ancient Rome, first issued in the latter part of the 3rd century b.c., that fluctuated in value and sometimes appeared as a bronze coin.
- denmark — a kingdom in N Europe, between the Baltic and the North Sea: consists of the mainland of Jutland and about 100 inhabited islands (chiefly Zealand, Lolland, Funen, Falster, Langeland, and Bornholm); extended its territory throughout the Middle Ages, ruling Sweden until 1523 and Norway until 1814, and incorporating Greenland as a province from 1953 to 1979; joined the Common Market (now the EU) in 1973; an important exporter of dairy produce. Language: Danish. Religion: Christian, Lutheran majority. Currency: krone. Capital: Copenhagen. Pop: 5 556 452 (2013 est). Area: 43 031 sq km (16 614 sq miles)
- dentary — a bone in the lower jaw of non-mammalian vertebrates, which holds the teeth
- deodars — Plural form of deodar.
- departs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depart.
- deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
- deraign — to contest (a claim, suit, etc)
- derails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derail.
- derange — to disturb the order or arrangement of; throw into disorder; disarrange
- derated — Simple past tense and past participle of derate.
- derrida — Jacques. 1930–2004, French philosopher and literary critic, regarded as the founder of deconstruction: author of L'Ecriture et la différence (1967)
- despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
- desugar — to rewrite (computer code) in a more refined and concise form; to remove all unnecessary syntactical elements from (computer code)
- 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.
- dewater — to remove water from
- 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
- dialler — Alternative form of dialer.
- 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
- diaster — the stage in cell division at which the chromosomes are in two groups at the poles of the spindle before forming daughter nuclei
- 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.
- dilater — One who, or that which, dilates, expands, or enlarges.
- diptera — the order comprising the dipterous insects.
- disrate — to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- dog-ear — (in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- dowager — a woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, especially the widow of a king, duke, etc. (often used as an additional title to differentiate her from the wife of the present king, duke, etc.): a queen dowager; an empress dowager.
- drabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of drab.
- drabber — Comparative form of drab.
- drabbet — a yellowish-brown fabric of coarse linen
- drabble — Margaret, born 1939, English novelist.
- dracone — A large bag used to transport a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
- 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.
- dragees — a sugarcoated nut or candy.
- dragged — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.