5-letter words containing e, d
- douce — sedate; modest; quiet.
- doune — Obsolete spelling of down.
- doupe — (UK, dialect, obsolete) The carrion crow.
- douse — to plunge into water or the like; drench: She doused the clothes in soapy water.
- doven — daven
- dover — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England: point nearest the coast of France.
- doves — Plural form of dove.
- dowed — to be able.
- dowel — a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.
- dower — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowie — dull; melancholy; dismal.
- dowle — Feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather.
- dowse — to plunge or be plunged into a liquid.
- doxie — opinion; doctrine.
- doyen — the senior member, as in age, rank, or experience, of a group, class, profession, etc.
- doyle — Sir Arthur Conan [kaw-nuh n,, koh-] /ˈkɔ nən,, ˈkoʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1859–1930, British physician, novelist, and detective-story writer.
- dozed — to sleep lightly or fitfully.
- dozen — a group of 12.
- dozer — bulldozer (def 1).
- dozes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of doze.
- drake — Sir Francis, c1540–96, English admiral and buccaneer: sailed around the world 1577–80.
- drape — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drate — Simple past form of drite.
- drave — a simple past tense of drive.
- drawe — Obsolete spelling of draw.
- dread — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drear — dreary.
- dreck — excrement; dung.
- dreed — tedious; dreary.
- drees — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dree.
- dregs — dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
- dreks — excrement; dung.
- dress — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drest — a simple past tense and past participle of dress.
- dreul — Obsolete form of drool.
- dreys — Plural form of drey.
- 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.
- droke — a valley with steeply sloping sides.
- drole — a scoundrel
- drome — a department in SE France. 2533 sq. mi. (6560 sq. km). Capital: Valence.
- drone — Music. a continuous low tone produced by the bass pipes or bass strings of musical instruments. the pipes (especially of the bagpipe) or strings producing this tone. a bagpipe equipped with such pipes.
- drove — simple past tense of drive.
- drupe — any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.
- druse — Islam. a member of an independent religious sect living chiefly in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, established in the 11th century as a branch of Ismaʿili Shiʿism and containing elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and believing in the transmigration of souls and the ultimate perfection of humankind.