7-letter words containing t, e, r
- 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)
- detrude — to force down or thrust away or out
- deuter- — deutero-
- dewater — to remove water from
- dextral — of, relating to, or located on the right side, esp of the body; right-hand
- dextran — a polysaccharide produced by the action of bacteria on sucrose: used as a substitute for plasma in blood transfusions
- 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
- dextro- — on or towards the right
- diaster — the stage in cell division at which the chromosomes are in two groups at the poles of the spindle before forming daughter nuclei
- dictier — high-class or stylish.
- diderot — Denis (dəni). 1713–84, French philosopher, noted particularly for his direction (1745–72) of the great French Encyclopédie
- 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
- dilater — One who, or that which, dilates, expands, or enlarges.
- 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.
- diluter — (chemistry) A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.
- dimeter — a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- 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.
- 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.
- diorite — a granular igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende.
- diptera — the order comprising the dipterous insects.
- 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.
- dirempt — to separate (something) forcefully or violently
- dirtied — Simple past tense and past participle of dirty.
- dirtier — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- dirties — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dirty.
- disrate — to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- dissert — to discourse on a subject.
- ditcher — a person who digs ditches.
- dithers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dither.
- dithery — a trembling; vibration.
- ditsier — Comparative form of ditsy.
- ditzier — Comparative form of ditzy.
- diverts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divert.
- donnert — stunned
- dorture — Alternative form of dortour.
- doubter — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- dourest — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- drabbet — a yellowish-brown fabric of coarse linen
- drafted — Simple past tense and past participle of draft.
- draftee — a person who is drafted into military service. Compare enlistee (def 1).
- drafter — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragnet — a net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc.
- dratted — damned; confounded (used as a mild oath): This dratted car won't start.
- dravite — a brown variety of magnesium tourmaline.
- 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.