7-letter words containing e, l, d
- declass — to lower in social status or position; degrade
- decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- declive — declivous.
- decolor — to remove the color from; deprive of color; bleach.
- decrial — the act of decrying; noisy censure.
- decuple — to increase by ten times
- deedful — having or full of exploits
- deedily — in an active or eagerly hardworking manner
- deerfly — a fly of the order Diptera and the genus Chrysops
- deerlet — a very small deer, specifically one of the species of musk deer known as the chevrotain
- default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
- defiled — to make foul, dirty, or unclean; pollute; taint; debase.
- defiler — to make foul, dirty, or unclean; pollute; taint; debase.
- defiles — Third person singular simple present of to defile.
- deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
- deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
- deglaze — to dilute meat sediments in (a pan) in order to make a sauce or gravy
- degloss — to remove the gloss from (a surface), especially in order to roughen: The old paint needs to be deglossed before new paint can be applied.
- deglove — To peel back the skin from part of the body as if removing a glove, especially as the result of an accident.
- deiseal — Motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun; a turning in this direction.
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- del mar — Norman. 1919–94, British conductor, associated esp with 20th- century British music
- del rio — a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- delaine — a sheer wool or wool and cotton fabric
- delaney — Shelagh [shee-luh] /ˈʃi lə/ (Show IPA), 1939–2011, English playwright.
- delapse — a falling or sinking down
- delated — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delater — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delator — An accuser; an informer.
- delayed — of or relating to a particle, as a neutron or alpha particle, that is emitted from an excited nucleus formed in a nuclear reaction, the emission occurring some time after the reaction is completed.
- delayer — to prune the administrative structure of (a large organization) by reducing the number of tiers in its hierarchy
- delbert — a male given name, form of Albert.
- deleave — to separate copies of (printed material)
- deledda — Grazia (ˈɡrattsja). 1875–1936, Italian novelist, noted for works, such as La Madre (1920), on peasant life in Sardinia: Nobel prize for literature 1926
- delenda — items to be deleted
- deleted — Simple past tense and past participle of delete.
- deleter — Agent noun of delete; one who deletes.
- deletes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delete.
- delgado — Cape, a cape at the NE extremity of Mozambique.
- deliber — (obsolete) To deliberate.
- delibes — (Clément Philibert) Léo (leo). 1836–91, French composer, noted particularly for his ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876), and the opera Lakmé (1883)
- delible — able to be deleted
- delibly — In a delible way.
- delicia — a female given name.
- delicts — Plural form of delict.
- delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
- delilah — Samson's Philistine mistress, who deprived him of his strength by cutting off his hair (Judges 16:4–22)
- delillo — Don, born 1936, U.S. novelist.
- delimit — If you delimit something, you fix or establish its limits.
- deliria — Pathology. a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc.