7-letter words containing c, d, r, e
- divorce — a divorced man.
- dockers — Plural form of docker.
- dormice — any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- douceur — a gratuity; tip.
- doucker — (UK, dialect) A grebe or diver.
- dracone — A large bag used to transport a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
- drecnet — /drek'net/ [Yiddish/German "dreck", meaning filth] Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community. So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also connector conspiracy.
- driesch — Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist
- drucken — drunken
- dry ice — CO2: used for refrigeration
- duckers — Plural form of ducker.
- duncery — the characteristic behaviour or the state of being a dunce or a dullard
- durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
- ecuador — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- educrat — An education administrator.
- eductor — ejector (def 3).
- encoder — A device used to encode a signal either for cryptography or compression.
- encored — Simple past tense and past participle of encore.
- endarch — (of a xylem strand) having the first-formed xylem internal to that formed later
- epacrid — a type of heath-like plant of the family Epacridaceae
- erected — Simple past tense and past participle of erect.
- ergodic — Relating to or denoting systems or processes with the property that, given sufficient time, they include or impinge on all points in a given space and can be represented statistically by a reasonably large selection of points.
- ericoid — (of leaves) small and tough, resembling those of heather
- eructed — Simple past tense and past participle of eruct.
- euchred — Simple past tense and past participle of euchre.
- farcied — (of a horse) afflicted with farcy
- fracted — broken; having a part displaced.
- fredric — a male given name.
- frocked — Simple past tense and past participle of frock.
- fructed — (of a tree or other plant) represented as bearing fruit, seeds, or the like: an apple tree vert fructed gules.
- icterid — any bird of the N American family Icteridae
- inducer — Biochemistry. a substance that has the capability of activating genes within a cell.
- keycard — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- lurched — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- marched — Simple past tense and past participle of march.
- mcbride — Willie John. born 1940, Irish Rugby Union footballer. A forward, he played for Ireland (1962–75) and the British Lions (1962–74)
- mercado — a market.
- occured — Misspelling of occurred.
- ochered — any of a class of natural earths, mixtures of hydrated oxide of iron with various earthy materials, ranging in color from pale yellow to orange and red, and used as pigments.
- odoacer — a.d. 434?–493, first barbarian ruler of Italy 476–493.
- parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- peracid — an oxyacid, the primary element of which is in its highest possible oxidation state, as perchloric acid, HClO 4 , and permanganic acid, HMnO 4 .
- perched — a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
- percoid — belonging to the Percoidea, a group of acanthopterygian fishes comprising the true perches and related families, and constituting one of the largest natural groups of fishes.
- pierced — punctured or perforated, as to form a decorative design: a pendant in pierced copper.
- pranced — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- precede — to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
- precode — a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message: Morse code.
- predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- proceed — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.