7-letter words containing t, e, r
- cythera — a Greek island off the SE coast of the Peloponnese: in ancient times a centre of the worship of Aphrodite. Pop: 3354 (2001). Area: about 285 sq km (110 sq miles)
- dabster — an incompetent or amateurish worker; bungler
- daren't — Daren't is the usual spoken form of 'dare not'.
- darkest — having very little or no light: a dark room.
- darknet — a covert communication network on the internet
- darnest — give a darn. damn (def 14).
- darters — Plural form of darter.
- dartles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dartle.
- daunter — One who daunts.
- de trop — not wanted; in the way; superfluous
- dearest — You can call someone dearest when you are very fond of them.
- dearths — Plural form of dearth.
- debater — A debater is someone who takes part in debates.
- debitor — the heading written at the top of the debit column in an accounts book
- debrett — a list of the British aristocracy
- debtors — Plural form of debtor.
- decatur — Stephen. 1779–1820, US naval officer, noted for his raid on Tripoli harbour (1804) and his role in the War of 1812
- decerpt — (obsolete) Plucked off or away.
- decreet — the final judgment or sentence of a court
- decrypt — to decode (a message) with or without previous knowledge of its key
- deerlet — a very small deer, specifically one of the species of musk deer known as the chevrotain
- def art — definite article
- defrost — When you defrost frozen food or when it defrosts, you allow or cause it to become unfrozen so that you can eat it or cook it.
- delater — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delator — An accuser; an informer.
- delbert — a male given name, form of Albert.
- deleter — Agent noun of delete; one who deletes.
- demerit — The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages.
- demeter — the goddess of agricultural fertility and protector of marriage and women
- dentary — a bone in the lower jaw of non-mammalian vertebrates, which holds the teeth
- denture — a partial or full set of artificial teeth
- deorbit — to depart deliberately from orbit, usually to enter a descent phase.
- departs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depart.
- deports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deport.
- derated — Simple past tense and past participle of derate.
- derbent — a port in S Russia, in the Dagestan Republic on the Caspian Sea: founded by the Persians in the 6th century. Pop: 106 000 (2005 est)
- derleth — August (William) 1909–71, U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
- dertrum — the extremity of the maxilla of a bird's bill, especially when hooked or differentiated from the rest of the bill, as in pigeons and plovers.
- derwent — a river in S Australia, in S Tasmania, flowing southeast to the Tasman Sea. Length: 172 km (107 miles)
- deseret — a territory established by the Mormons in 1849 as a proposed state of the Union: was refused admission to the Union by Congress and incorporated in the newly organized Territory of Utah 1850.
- deserts — something that is deserved or merited; just reward or punishment
- desport — To disport.
- dessert — Dessert is something sweet, such as fruit or a pudding, that you eat at the end of a meal.
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- detemir — A long-acting human insulin analogue for maintaining the basal level of insulin.
- deterge — to wash or wipe away; cleanse
- detours — Plural form of detour.
- detract — If one thing detracts from another, it makes it seem less good or impressive.
- detrain — to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc
- detreat — (transitive) To reverse the treatment of.