7-letter words containing d, e, c, n
- decence — (obsolete) decency.
- decency — Decency is the quality of following accepted moral standards.
- decerns — Scots Law. to enter a judicial decree.
- decking — Decking is wooden boards that are fixed to the ground in a garden or other outdoor area for people to walk on.
- deckman — A man who works on the deck of a ship.
- decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- decrown — to divest (a person) of the role of monarch
- decuman — a huge wave
- defence — Defence is action that is taken to protect someone or something against attack.
- defunct — If something is defunct, it no longer exists or has stopped functioning or operating.
- deicing — Present participle of deice.
- demonic — Demonic means coming from or belonging to a demon or being like a demon.
- deontic — of or relating to such ethical concepts as obligation and permissibility
- descant — A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
- descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
- descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
- dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- dineric — of or relating to the face of separation of two immiscible liquid phases.
- discern — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- docents — Plural form of docent.
- domenic — a male given name.
- doucine — a type of moulding of the cornice
- 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.
- drucken — drunken
- 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).
- echidna — Also called spiny anteater. any of several insectivorous monotremes of the genera Tachyglossus, of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, and Zaglossus, of New Guinea, that have claws and a slender snout and are covered with coarse hair and long spines.
- educand — Someone who is to be, or is being educated.
- educing — Present participle of educe.
- enacted — Simple past tense and past participle of enact.
- encaged — Simple past tense and past participle of encage.
- encased — Enclose or cover in a case or close-fitting surround.
- encloud — to hide with clouds; to darken
- enclude — Obsolete form of include.
- encoded — Convert into a coded form.
- encoder — A device used to encode a signal either for cryptography or compression.
- encodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encode.
- encored — Simple past tense and past participle of encore.
- end cap — An end cap is a rack or counter at the end of a store aisle used to display promotional or sale items.
- endarch — (of a xylem strand) having the first-formed xylem internal to that formed later
- endemic — (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
- enlaced — Simple past tense and past participle of enlace.
- enticed — Simple past tense and past participle of entice.
- evinced — Simple past tense and past participle of evince.
- exscind — (medicine, surgery) To cut out.
- faciend — the multiplicand in an equation (also referred to as the facient)
- fancied — made, designed, grown, adapted, etc., to please the taste or fancy; of superfine quality or exceptional appeal: fancy goods; fancy fruits.
- finched — Simple past tense and past participle of finch.
- glanced — Simple past tense and past participle of glance.