7-letter words containing n, d, t
- drayton — Michael, 1563–1631, English poet.
- drecnet — /drek'net/ [Yiddish/German "dreck", meaning filth] Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community. So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also connector conspiracy.
- drenthe — a province in E Netherlands. 1011 sq. mi. (2620 sq. km).
- du mont — Allen Balcom. 1901–65, US inventor and electronics manufacturer. He developed the cathode-ray tube used in television sets and oscilloscopes
- du pont — É(leuthère) I(rénée)1771-1834; Am. industrialist, born in France
- dubawnt — a river in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, flowing NE to Baker Lake. 580 miles (933 km) long.
- ducting — any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- duction — (obsolete) guidance.
- dueting — Present participle of duet.
- dugento — duecento.
- dunitic — Of or relating to dunite.
- dunnart — Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
- dunnite — an ammonium picrate explosive used as a bursting charge for armor-piercing projectiles and in high-explosive shells; explosive D.
- dunstan — Saint, a.d. c925–988, English statesman: archbishop of Canterbury 961–978.
- dunting — a hard blow or hit, especially one that makes a dull sound; thump.
- duotone — of two tones or colors.
- durante — James Francis ("Jimmy") 1893–1980, U.S. comedian.
- duranty — Walter, 1884–1957, English journalist and author in the U.S.
- dustbin — an ashcan; garbage can.
- dusting — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- dustman — a person employed to remove or cart away garbage, refuse, ashes, etc.; garbage collector.
- dustmen — Plural form of dustman.
- dustpan — a short-handled shovellike utensil into which dust is swept for removal.
- duvetyn — a napped fabric, in a twilled or plain weave, of cotton, wool, silk, or rayon.
- dynasts — Plural form of dynast.
- dynasty — A line of hereditary rulers of a country.
- edenite — (mineral) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
- edental — Edentate.
- editing — Present participle of edit.
- edition — one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. (distinguished from impression).
- enacted — Simple past tense and past participle of enact.
- end tag — tag
- endgate — the tailboard of a vehicle
- endites — Plural form of endite.
- endmost — Nearest to the end.
- endnote — A note printed at the end of a book or section of a book.
- entered — Simple past tense and past participle of enter.
- enticed — Simple past tense and past participle of entice.
- entrada — (historical) An armed incursion of Spanish conquistadors into American territories.
- entrold — surrounded
- entuned — Simple past tense and past participle of entune.
- evident — Plain or obvious; clearly seen or understood.
- extends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extend.
- fainted — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- fantods — Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving.
- feinted — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
- fidonet — (messaging, networking, history) A worldwide hobbyist network of personal computers which exchanged e-mail, discussion groups, and files. Founded in 1984 and originally consisting only of IBM PCs and compatibles, FidoNet grew to include such diverse machines as Apple IIs, Ataris, Amigas and Unix systems. Though much younger than Usenet, by early 1991 FidoNet had reached a significant fraction of Usenet's size at some 8000 systems.
- findest — Archaic second-person singular form of find.
- findeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of find.
- flinted — a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.