6-letter words containing e, l, d
- dartle — to move swiftly and repeatedly
- dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
- dazzle — If someone or something dazzles you, you are extremely impressed by their skill, qualities, or beauty.
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- deafly — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- dealed — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of deal.
- dealer — A dealer is a person whose business involves buying and selling things.
- dealth — (obsolete) A share dealt out.
- dearly — If you love someone dearly, you love them very much.
- deasil — in the direction of the apparent course of the sun; clockwise
- debile — having no strength, muscle, or power
- debulk — (transitive, surgery) To remove part of (a malignant tumour).
- decals — Plural form of decal.
- decile — one of nine actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into ten groups with equal frequencies: the ninth decile is the value below which 90% of the population lie
- deckel — a board, usually of stainless steel, fitted under part of the wire in a Fourdrinier machine for supporting the pulp stack before it is sufficiently formed to support itself on the wire.
- deckle — a frame used to contain pulp on the mould in the making of handmade paper
- declaw — to remove the claws from (an animal or bird)
- deelie — a thing whose name is unknown or forgotten; thingumbob.
- deeply — at or to a considerable extent downward; well within or beneath a surface.
- deevil — Eye dialect of devil.
- defile — To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
- deflea — to remove fleas from (an animal or bird)
- deflex — (of the grip of an archery bow) having the theoretical pivot point further from the archer's body than the theoretical pivot point of the limbs of the bow
- defoul — corruption; defilement
- deftly — dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.
- defuel — to remove the fuel from (a vehicle or aircraft)
- dehull — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- deland — Margaret (Margaretta Wade Campbell Deland) 1857–1945, U.S. novelist.
- delano — a city in S California.
- delany — Martin Robinson, 1812–85, U.S. physician, army officer, and political reformer: leader of the black nationalist movement.
- delate — (formerly) to bring a charge against; denounce; impeach
- delays — Plural form of delay.
- delead — to remove the lead from (an object or substance)
- delete — If you delete something that has been written down or stored in a computer, you cross it out or remove it.
- delian — a native or inhabitant of Delos
- delice — a delicacy; a pleasure
- delict — a wrongful act for which the person injured has the right to a civil remedy
- delila — (genetics) DEoxyribonucleic-acid LIbraryLAnguage. Software for extracting fragments from sequences of DNA.
- delime — to remove lime from (a substance)
- deline — (obsolete) To delineate or mark out.
- 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)
- dellas — a female given name, form of Delia.
- deller — Alfred (George). 1912–79, British countertenor
- delope — to shoot into the air during a duel, in order deliberately to miss one's opponent
- delors — Jacques (Lucien Jean). born 1925, French politician and economist, President of the European Commission (1985–94): originator of the Delors plan for closer European union