7-letter words containing t, r
- 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.
- 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
- diarist — A diarist is a person who records things in a diary which is later published.
- diaster — the stage in cell division at which the chromosomes are in two groups at the poles of the spindle before forming daughter nuclei
- diatron — an electrical circuit that uses diodes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- dimeter — a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.
- dinitro — (organic chemistry) Two nitro groups in a chemical compound.
- 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.
- 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
- dirtbag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtied — Simple past tense and past participle of dirty.