7-letter words containing d, e, t, i
- deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- devilet — a young or small devil
- dextrin — any of a group of sticky substances that are intermediate products in the conversion of starch to maltose: used as thickening agents in foods and as gums
- dhootie — Alternative form of dhoti.
- dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- 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
- dickite — a polymorph of kaolinite.
- dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- dictier — high-class or stylish.
- diderot — Denis (dəni). 1713–84, French philosopher, noted particularly for his direction (1745–72) of the great French Encyclopédie
- die out — If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely.
- diester — an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- dietary — of or relating to diet: a dietary cure.
- dieters — Plural form of dieter.
- diether — an organic chemical compound that contains two ether groups
- diethyl — (organic chemistry) Two ethyl groups attached to the same molecule.
- dietine — a minor or low-ranking diet or assembly
- dieting — Present participle of diet.
- digests — Plural form of digest.
- dighted — Simple past tense and past participle of dight.
- dilated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilate.
- dilater — One who, or that which, dilates, expands, or enlarges.
- dilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dilate.
- dilbert — (humour) A cartoon computer worker drawn by Scott Adams <[email protected]>, who works in Silicon Valley. The cartoon became so popular he left his day job. The cartoon satirises typical corporate life, especially that which revolves around computers. See also: BOFH.
- dilthey — Wilhelm1833-1911; Ger. philosopher
- diluent — serving to dilute; diluting.
- diluted — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- diluter — (chemistry) A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.
- dilutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dilute.
- dimeter — a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- dimmest — Superlative form of dim.
- dinette — a small space or alcove, often in or near the kitchen, serving as an informal dining area.
- diopter — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- dioptre — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- diorite — a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- dip net — a net attached to the end of a long pole, used to catch fish
- dip-net — to scoop (fish) from water with a dip net.
- diptera — the order comprising the dipterous insects.
- diptote — a substantive declined in only two cases, especially when occurring in a language in which this is less than the normal number.
- directs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of direct.
- directx — (programming, hardware) A Microsoft programming interface standard, first included with Windows 95. DirectX gives (games) programmers a standard way to gain direct access to enhanced hardware features under Windows 95 instead of going via the Windows 95 GDI. Some DirectX code runs faster than the equivalent under MS DOS. DirectX promises performance improvements for graphics, sound, video, 3D, and network capabilites of games, but only where both hardware and software support DirectX. DirectX 2 introduced the Direct3D interface. Version 5 was current at 1998-02-01. Version 8.1 is included in Windows XP.
- dirempt — to separate (something) forcefully or violently
- dirtied — Simple past tense and past participle of dirty.
- dirtier — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- dirties — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dirty.
- discept — To debate; to discuss.
- disgest — Obsolete form of digest.
- disject — to scatter; disperse.
- disnest — to remove from the nest