6-letter words containing e, d, i
- delink — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- delint — /dee-lint/ To modify code to remove problems detected when linting. Confusingly, this process is also referred to as "linting" code.
- delish — delicious
- delist — If a company delists or if its shares are delisted, its shares are removed from the official list of shares that can be traded on the stock market.
- delium — an ancient seaport in Greece, in Boeotia: the Boeotians defeated the Athenians here 424 b.c.
- delius — Frederick. 1862–1934, English composer, who drew inspiration from folk tunes and the sounds of nature. His works include the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet (1901), A Mass of Life (1905), and the orchestral variations Brigg Fair (1907)
- delphi — an ancient Greek city on the S slopes of Mount Parnassus: site of the most famous oracle of Apollo
- demain — (obsolete, British, legal) A demesne, especially the Ancient demesne claimed by William the Conqueror.
- demies — a foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford: so called because such a scholar originally received half the allowance of a fellow.
- demine — Remove explosive mines from.
- demise — The demise of something or someone is their end or death.
- demiss — submissive or humble
- demist — to free or become free of condensation through evaporation produced by a heater and/or blower
- denali — McKinley2
- denial — A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.
- denied — to withhold something from, or refuse to grant a request of: to deny a beggar.
- denier — Denier is used when indicating the thickness of stockings and tights.
- denies — Refuse to admit the truth or existence of (something).
- denims — Denims are casual trousers made of denim.
- denise — a feminine name
- dennis — C(larence) J(ames). 1876–1938, the poet of the Australian larrikin, esp in The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915) and The Moods of Ginger Mick (1916)
- denti- — indicating a tooth
- dentil — one of a set of small square or rectangular blocks evenly spaced to form an ornamental row, usually under a classical cornice on a building, piece of furniture, etc
- dentin — the hard, dense, calcareous tissue forming the body of a tooth, under the enamel and surrounding the pulp canal
- depict — To depict someone or something means to show or represent them in a work of art such as a drawing or painting.
- depill — to remove small, pill-like balls from (fabric): a video on how to depill a sweater. Compare pill1 (def 10).
- derail — To derail something such as a plan or a series of negotiations means to prevent it from continuing as planned.
- derain — André (ɑ̃dre). 1880–1954, French painter, noted for his Fauvist pictures (1905–08)
- deride — If you deride someone or something, you say that they are stupid or have no value.
- dering — Present participle of dere.
- derive — If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them.
- dermic — dermal
- dermis — the layer of skin just below the epidermis
- derris — any East Indian leguminous woody climbing plant of the genus Derris, esp D. elliptica, whose roots yield the compound rotenone
- desier — Eye dialect of desire.
- design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
- desilt — To remove suspended silt from the water.
- desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
- desist — If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
- desmid — any freshwater green alga of the mainly unicellular family Desmidioideae, typically constricted into two symmetrical halves
- dessin — (math) dessin d'enfant.
- destin — Obsolete form of destiny.
- detail — The details of something are its individual features or elements.
- detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- detick — to remove ticks from (an animal); free of ticks
- devein — (generally) to remove a vein or veins from
- device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
- devide — Obsolete form of divide.
- devils — Plural form of devil.
- devine — George (Alexander Cassady). 1910–65, British stage director and actor: founded (1956) the English Stage Company in London's Royal Court Theatre