7-letter words containing i, d, e
- deskill — If workers are deskilled, they no longer need special skills to do their work, especially because of modern methods of production.
- desking — the desks and related furnishings in a given space, such as an office
- desmids — Plural form of desmid.
- desmoid — resembling a tendon or ligament
- despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
- despise — If you despise something or someone, you dislike them and have a very low opinion of them.
- despite — You use despite to introduce a fact which makes the other part of the sentence surprising.
- despoil — To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it.
- destain — to remove a stain from
- destine — to set apart or appoint (for a certain purpose or person, or to do something); intend; design
- destiny — A person's destiny is everything that happens to them during their life, including what will happen in the future, especially when it is considered to be controlled by someone or something else.
- details — an individual or minute part; an item or particular.
- detains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detain.
- detemir — A long-acting human insulin analogue for maintaining the basal level of insulin.
- detinue — an action brought by a plaintiff to recover goods wrongfully detained
- detrain — to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc
- detrite — (obsolete) worn out.
- detroit — a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River: a major Great Lakes port; once the largest car-manufacturing centre in the world. Pop: 911 402 (2003 est)
- deutzia — any saxifragaceous shrub of the genus Deutzia: cultivated for their clusters of white or pink spring-blooming flowers
- deveins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devein.
- deviant — Deviant behaviour or thinking is different from what people normally consider to be acceptable.
- deviate — To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- devices — a thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- deviled — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devilet — a young or small devil
- devilry — reckless or malicious fun or mischief
- devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
- devisal — the act of inventing, contriving, or devising; contrivance
- devised — to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
- devisee — a person to whom property, esp realty, is devised by will
- deviser — A person who devises; a planner.
- devises — Plural form of devise.
- devisor — a person who devises property, esp realty, by will
- devived — Simple past tense and past participle of devive.
- devizes — a market town in S England, in Wiltshire: agricultural and dairy products. Pop: 14 379 (2001)
- devling — a young devil
- devoice — to make (a voiced speech sound) voiceless
- devoids — not possessing, untouched by, void, or destitute (usually followed by of).
- devoirs — compliments or respects; courteous attentions
- dextrin — any of a group of sticky substances that are intermediate products in the conversion of starch to maltose: used as thickening agents in foods and as gums
- dhegiha — a division of the Siouan language family, comprising the dialects spoken by the Omaha, Osage, Kansa, Ponca, and Quapaw.
- dhootie — Alternative form of dhoti.
- dhurrie — a coarse cotton or wool rug woven in India in a flat weave and in various designs
- diabase — an altered dolerite
- diadems — Plural form of diadem.
- dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- dialled — a plate, disk, face, or other surface containing markings or figures upon which the time of day is indicated by hands, pointers, or shadows, as of a clock or sundial.
- diallel — (in genetic research, particularly into the genetics of plants) a scheme of cross-breeding within a select group of parents, designed to produce various hybrids with different genetic properties
- dialler — Alternative form of dialer.
- dialyse — to separate by dialysis