5-letter words containing d, i, e
- dirge — a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- dirke — Obsolete form of dirk.
- disme — a former coin of the U.S., equal to 10 cents, issued in 1792: early form of the dime.
- dived — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
- diver — a person or thing that dives.
- dives — an act or instance of diving.
- divet — Alternative form of divot.
- divey — Having the character of a dive, a disreputable bar or nightclub.
- dixer — (Australia, politics) A planted question in Parliamentary w Question time.
- dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- dizen — to deck with clothes or finery; bedizen.
- dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- dogie — a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
- dowie — dull; melancholy; dismal.
- doxie — opinion; doctrine.
- drice — frozen carbon dioxide
- dried — simple past tense and past participle of dry.
- drier — a person or thing that dries.
- dries — a plural of dry.
- drite — (intransitive, obsolete) To defecate.
- drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- dutie — Obsolete spelling of duty.
- dwile — a cloth, rag, or mop used for various cleaning purposes around the house
- dwine — (archaic except in Scotland and dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.
- eddie — Mary (Morse) Baker (Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Patterson) 1821–1910, U.S. founder of the Christian Science Church.
- edict — a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- edify — to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer.
- edile — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- edina — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- edith — a female given name: from Old English words meaning “rich, happy” and “war.”.
- edits — Plural form of edit.
- edwin — MIT Scheme
- egadi — a group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of W Sicily. 15 sq. mi. (39 sq. km).
- eider — A northern sea duck, of which the male has mainly black and white plumage with a colored head, and the brown female has soft down feathers that are used to line the nest.
- eidos — The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group.
- ejido — (in Mexico) a piece of land farmed communally under a system supported by the state.
- eldin — fuel or firewood
- elide — Omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking.
- emdir — The CERN Electronic Mail DIRectory utility.
- equid — Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
- fedin — Konstantin Aleksandrovich [kuh n-stuhn-tyeen uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /kən stʌnˈtyin ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1977, Russian novelist and short-story writer.
- felid — any animal of the family Felidae, comprising the cats.
- fetid — having an offensive odor; stinking.
- fidel — a male given name.
- fides — (italics) Latin. (used with a singular verb) good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate: The bona fides of this contract is open to question. Compare mala fides.
- fidge — (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
- field — Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
- fiend — Satan; the devil.
- filed — Simple past tense and past participle of file.
- finde — Archaic spelling of find.