7-letter words containing i, r
- die for — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- diehard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- diester — an organic compound that contains two ester groups.
- dietary — of or relating to diet: a dietary cure.
- dieters — Plural form of dieter.
- diether — an organic chemical compound that contains two ether groups
- differs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differ.
- difform — different or irregular in form; not uniform
- diggers — a person or an animal that digs.
- digrams — Plural form of digram.
- digraph — a pair of letters representing a single speech sound, as ea in meat or th in path.
- digress — to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
- dihydro — (chemistry, especially in combination) Two hydrogen atoms in a molecule.
- dilater — One who, or that which, dilates, expands, or enlarges.
- dilator — Anatomy. a muscle that dilates some cavity of the body.
- dilbert — (humour) A cartoon computer worker drawn by Scott Adams <[email protected]>, who works in Silicon Valley. The cartoon became so popular he left his day job. The cartoon satirises typical corporate life, especially that which revolves around computers. See also: BOFH.
- dillard — Annie, born 1945, U.S. writer.
- diluter — (chemistry) A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.
- dilutor — a device that dilutes something, such as a fitting on a garden hose or part of an industrial machine
- dimeric — a molecule composed of two identical, simpler molecules.
- dimeter — a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- dimmers — Plural form of dimmer.
- dimorph — either of the two forms assumed by a mineral or other chemical substance exhibiting dimorphism.
- dinaric — of or relating to the Alpine region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Slovenia to N Albania and extending across W Coatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovna, and Montenegro.
- dineric — of or relating to the face of separation of two immiscible liquid phases.
- dingers — Plural form of dinger.
- dingier — Comparative form of dingy.
- dinitro — (organic chemistry) Two nitro groups in a chemical compound.
- dinners — Plural form of dinner.
- diopter — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- dioptra — Alternative form of diopter.
- dioptre — Optics. a unit of measure of the refractive power of a lens, having the dimension of the reciprocal of length and a unit equal to the reciprocal of one meter. Abbreviation: D.
- diorama — a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.
- diorism — definition; clarity
- diorite — a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- dipolar — Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- dippers — Plural form of dipper.
- diptera — the order comprising the dipterous insects.
- diquark — a low-energy configuration of two quarks attracted to one another by virtue of having antisymmetric colours and spins
- directs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of direct.
- directx — (programming, hardware) A Microsoft programming interface standard, first included with Windows 95. DirectX gives (games) programmers a standard way to gain direct access to enhanced hardware features under Windows 95 instead of going via the Windows 95 GDI. Some DirectX code runs faster than the equivalent under MS DOS. DirectX promises performance improvements for graphics, sound, video, 3D, and network capabilites of games, but only where both hardware and software support DirectX. DirectX 2 introduced the Direct3D interface. Version 5 was current at 1998-02-01. Version 8.1 is included in Windows XP.
- direful — dreadful; awful; terrible.
- dirempt — to separate (something) forcefully or violently
- dirhams — Plural form of dirham.
- dirksen — Everett McKinley, 1896–1969, U.S. politician.
- dirling — to vibrate; shake.
- dirndls — Plural form of dirndl.
- dirtbag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtied — Simple past tense and past participle of dirty.
- dirtier — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.