7-letter words containing a, t
- decants — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decant.
- decatur — Stephen. 1779–1820, US naval officer, noted for his raid on Tripoli harbour (1804) and his role in the War of 1812
- dectape — (hardware, storage) A reel of magnetic tape about 4 inches in diameter and one inch wide. Unlike today's macrotapes, microtape drivers allowed random access to the data, and therefore could be used to support file systems and even for swapping (this was generally done purely for hack value, as they were far too slow for practical use). DECtape was a variant on LINCtape. In their heyday DECtapes were used in pretty much the same ways one would now use a floppy disk: as a small, portable way to save and transport files and programs.
- def art — definite article
- defacto — (Australia, New Zealand) A partner in a spousal relationship not officially declared as a marriage, comparable to a common law husband or wife.
- default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
- defeats — Plural form of defeat.
- defiant — If you say that someone is defiant, you mean they show aggression or independence by refusing to obey someone.
- deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
- dejecta — waste products excreted through the anus; faeces
- delated — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delater — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delator — An accuser; an informer.
- delta-4 — Definition and Design of an open Dependable Distributed system architecture. An Esprit project investigating the achievement of dependability in open distributed systems, including real-time systems.
- deltaic — pertaining to or like a delta.
- deltase — A distributed processing environment concerned with fault-tolerant and process-control applications from the Esprit Delta-4 project.
- demasts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demast.
- dentary — a bone in the lower jaw of non-mammalian vertebrates, which holds the teeth
- dentate — having teeth or toothlike processes
- dential — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to dentine.
- deodate — anything offered to God or given by God
- depaint — to depict or delineate
- depants — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- departs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depart.
- derated — Simple past tense and past participle of derate.
- desalts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalt.
- descant — A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
- destain — to remove a stain from
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- dialist — a person who makes (sun)dials
- diarist — A diarist is a person who records things in a diary which is later published.
- 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
- diatoms — Plural form of diatom.
- diatron — an electrical circuit that uses diodes
- dibatag — a small gazelle, Ammodorcas clarkei, of Somaliland, having a long neck: now rare.
- dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- dietary — of or relating to diet: a dietary cure.
- digital — of, relating to, or using numerical calculations.