7-letter words containing n, i
- dinesen — Isak [ee-sahk] /ˈi sɑk/ (Show IPA), (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) 1885–1962, Danish author.
- dinette — a small space or alcove, often in or near the kitchen, serving as an informal dining area.
- dingaan — died 1840, Zulu chief (1828–40), who fought the Boer colonists in Natal
- dingbat — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- dingers — Plural form of dinger.
- dingier — Comparative form of dingy.
- dingily — In a dingy manner.
- dinging — to cause surface damage to; dent: Flying gravel had dinged the car's fenders.
- dingles — Plural form of dingle.
- dingoes — Alternative spelling of dingosa; Plural form of dingo.
- dingwad — (informal) A stupid person.
- dinitro — (organic chemistry) Two nitro groups in a chemical compound.
- dinmont — a young neutered male sheep
- dinners — Plural form of dinner.
- dinning — a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor.
- dionaea — the Venus's-flytrap.
- dioscin — a saponin, found in Mexican yams, that on hydrolysis produces diosgenin, glucose, and rhamnose.
- dioxane — a colorless, flammable, liquid cyclic ether, C 4 H 8 O 2 , having a faint, pleasant odor: used chiefly in the varnish and silk industries and as a dehydrator in histology.
- dioxins — Plural form of dioxin.
- dip net — a net attached to the end of a long pole, used to catch fish
- dip-net — to scoop (fish) from water with a dip net.
- diphone — a unit of speech made up of two simple speech sounds known as phones
- dipinto — (archaeology, epigraphy) a sketched or painted (as opposed to engraved) inscription.
- diplont — the diploid individual in a life cycle that has a diploid and a haploid phase.
- dipnoan — belonging or pertaining to the order Dipnoi, comprising the lungfishes.
- dipping — Present participle of dip.
- dirksen — Everett McKinley, 1896–1969, U.S. politician.
- dirling — to vibrate; shake.
- dirndls — Plural form of dirndl.
- disband — to break up or dissolve (an organization): They disbanded the corporation.
- discant — Also, discantus [dis-kan-tuh s] /dɪsˈkæn təs/ (Show IPA). Music. a 13th-century polyphonic style with strict mensural meter in all the voice parts, in contrast to the metrically free organum of the period.
- discern — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- discing — any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
- disegno — drawing or design: a term used during the 16th and 17th centuries to designate the formal discipline required for the representation of the ideal form of an object in the visual arts, especially as expressed in the linear structure of a work of art.
- disgown — to remove a gown from (esp in a religious or academic sense)
- dishing — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- dishorn — (transitive) To deprive of horns.
- dishpan — a large pan in which dishes, pots, etc., are washed.
- disjoin — to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.
- disjune — breakfast.
- disking — a phonograph record.
- dislang — (language)
- dislimn — to cause to become dim or indistinct.
- dislink — to disunite
- disnest — to remove from the nest
- disowns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disown.
- dispand — (obsolete) To spread out; to expand.
- dispend — to pay out; expend; spend.