6-letter words containing d
- adapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adapt.
- add in — If you add in something, you include it as a part of something else.
- add on — If one thing is added on to another, it is attached to the other thing, or is made a part of it.
- add up — If facts or events do not add up, they make you confused about a situation because they do not seem to be consistent. If something that someone has said or done adds up, it is reasonable and sensible.
- add-in — Journalism. copy added to a completed story.
- add-on — a device or unit added to equipment or a construction: an add-on to a computer; a nice add-on to an old house.
- addams — Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931
- addeem — to declare or determine, esp judicially
- addend — any of a set of numbers that is to be added
- adders — Plural form of adder.
- addeth — Archaic third-person singular form of add.
- addict — An addict is someone who takes harmful drugs and cannot stop taking them.
- adding — an act or instance of addition
- addled — If you describe someone as addled, you mean that they are confused or unable to think properly.
- addles — mentally confused; muddled.
- addoom — to declare or determine, esp judicially
- adduce — If you adduce something such as a fact or reason, you mention it in order to support an argument.
- adduct — (of a muscle) to draw or pull (a leg, arm, etc) towards the median axis of the body
- adeno- — gland or glandular
- adenyl — a derivative of adenine
- adepts — Plural form of adept.
- adhere — If you adhere to an opinion or belief, you support or hold it.
- adient — tending to move toward a stimulus.
- adieus — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adieux — the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
- adighe — Adygei.
- adipic — (organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
- adipsy — Archaic form of adipsia.
- aditus — The entrance to a cavity or channel.
- aditya — one of the Vedic gods, the sons of Aditi.
- adject — (obsolete) To annex.
- adjigo — a yam plant, Dioscorea hastifolia, native to SW Australia that has edible tubers
- adjoin — If one room, place, or object adjoins another, they are next to each other.
- adjure — to command, often by exacting an oath; charge
- adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
- adland — the advertising industry and the people who work in it
- adlibs — Plural form of adlib.
- admail — Alternative expression for junk mail.
- admass — the part of society that is easily influenced by the mass media and advertising
- admete — a daughter of Eurystheus for whom Hercules took the golden girdle of Ares from Hippolyte.
- admier — Eye dialect of admire.
- admins — Plural form of admin.
- admire — If you admire someone or something, you like and respect them very much.
- admits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of admit.
- admixt — Simple past tense and past participle of admix; alternative spelling of admixed.
- adnate — growing closely attached to an adjacent part or organ
- adnexa — adjoining organs, esp of the uterus
- adnoun — an adjective used as a noun; absolute adjective
- adobes — Plural form of adobe.
- adobos — Plural form of adobo.