7-letter words containing d, e, l, a
- glandes — (rare) Plural form of glans.
- glassed — (colloquial) of a person on whom a glass is smashed.
- gleamed — a flash or beam of light: the gleam of a lantern in the dark.
- gleaned — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- gloated — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
- gnarled — (of trees) full of or covered with gnarls; bent; twisted.
- gradely — (Northern England) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable.
- hackled — Simple past tense and past participle of hackle.
- haggled — Simple past tense and past participle of haggle.
- halberd — a shafted weapon with an axlike cutting blade, beak, and apical spike, used especially in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- haldane — John Burdon Sanderson [bur-dn san-der-suh n] /ˈbɜr dn ˈsæn dər sən/ (Show IPA), 1892–1964, English biochemist, geneticist, and writer.
- halides — Plural form of halide.
- halloed — Simple past tense and past participle of hallo.
- halsted — William Stewart ("Brill") 1852–1922, U.S. surgeon and educator.
- handled — fitted with or having a handle or handles, especially of a specified kind (often used in combination): a handled pot; a long-handled knife.
- handler — a person or thing that handles.
- handles — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- handsel — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
- hassled — a disorderly dispute.
- headful — A quantity sufficient to cover the head.
- headily — In a heady manner.
- hederal — of or resembling any plant of the genus Hedera
- helipad — a takeoff and landing area for helicopters, usually without commercial facilities.
- helmand — a river in S Asia, flowing SW from E Afghanistan to a lake in E Iran. 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- heralds — Plural form of herald.
- hidable — to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?
- hieland — characteristic of Highlanders, esp alluding to their supposed gullibility or foolishness in towns or cities
- hollaed — Simple past tense and past participle of holla.
- iceland — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- ideally — in accordance with an ideal; perfectly.
- impaled — Pinned to something by piercing.
- implead — to sue in a court of law.
- indexal — of or relating to an index
- inhaled — Simple past tense and past participle of inhale.
- inlayed — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of inlay.
- ireland — John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
- irideal — iridaceous
- isolead — a curved line on a ballistic graph that is used to calculate the trajectory required in order to hit a moving target
- jadedly — In a jaded manner.
- jangled — Simple past tense and past participle of jangle.
- kalends — the first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar, from which the days of the preceding month were counted backward to the ides.
- kaylied — intoxicated; drunk
- kendall — Edward Calvin, 1886–1972, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1950.
- kildare — a county in Leinster, in the E Republic of Ireland. 654 sq. mi. (1695 sq. km). County seat: Naas.
- knaidel — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- knarled — Alternative form of gnarled.
- labeled — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- labored — of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions: labor reforms.
- ladders — Plural form of ladder.
- laddery — like or with ladders