6-letter words containing e, d, t
- desilt — To remove suspended silt from the water.
- desist — If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
- despot — A despot is a ruler or other person who has a lot of power and who uses it unfairly or cruelly.
- destem — to remove the stem from (a fruit or vegetable); stem.
- destin — Obsolete form of destiny.
- detach — If you detach one thing from another that it is fixed to, you remove it. If one thing detaches from another, it becomes separated from it.
- 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.
- detect — To detect something means to find it or discover that it is present somewhere by using equipment or making an investigation.
- detent — the locking piece of a mechanism, often spring-loaded to check the movement of a wheel in one direction only
- detenu — prisoner
- deterr — Misspelling of deter.
- deters — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- detest — If you detest someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- detext — (rare) To extract or remove from a text.
- detick — to remove ticks from (an animal); free of ticks
- detort — to twist, pervert, or distort
- detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
- detune — to change the pitch of (a stringed instrument), whether for musical or maintenance purposes
- deturn — (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- deuto- — deutero-
- deuton — deuteron.
- devast — (obsolete) To devastate.
- devest — to undress; strip
- devote — If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
- devoto — A devotee.
- devout — A devout person has deep religious beliefs.
- dewitt — to hang unlawfully; to lynch
- dexter — of or located on the right side
- dextr- — dextro-
- dextro — dextrorotatory
- dieted — Simple past tense and past participle of diet.
- dieter — food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health: Milk is a wholesome article of diet.
- digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- dilate — to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
- dilute — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- dimate — (language) Depot Installed Maintenance Automatic Test Equipment. A language for programming automatic test equipment. It Runs on the RCA 301.
- dinted — Simple past tense and past participle of dint.
- dipmet — Diploma in Metallurgy
- dipnet — Alt form dip net.
- direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direst — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- disect — Misspelling of dissect.
- disert — (obsolete) eloquent.
- dither — a trembling; vibration.
- ditone — (obsolete, music) An interval of two tones.
- ditzes — Plural form of ditz.
- divert — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divest — to strip of clothing, ornament, etc.: The wind divested the trees of their leaves.
- dnestr — Russian name of Dniester.