4-letter words containing t
- delt — (slang) Shoulder.
- dent — If you dent the surface of something, you make a hollow area in it by hitting or pressing it.
- dept — Dept is used as a written abbreviation for department, usually in the name of a particular department.
- dest — Abbreviation of destination.
- deth — Obsolete form of death.
- detr — Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions
- dict — to dictate (something)
- diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
- dint — force; power: By dint of hard work she became head of the company.
- dipt — a simple past tense of dip1 .
- dirt — Design In Real Time
- dist — distance
- dita — an apocynaceous shrub, Alstonia scholaris, of tropical Africa and Asia, having large shiny whorled leaves and medicinal bark
- dite — a bit (usually used in negative constructions): I don't care a dite.
- dits — an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
- ditz — Slang. airhead2 .
- dlit — Doctor of Letters (or Literature)
- dmtf — Desktop Management Task Force
- doat — dote.
- doit — Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
- dolt — a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- dont — contraction of do not.
- doot — (chiefly, Scotland) doubt.
- dort — Dordrecht.
- dost — 2nd person singular present ind. of do1 .
- dote — to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually followed by on or upon): They dote on their youngest daughter.
- doth — 3rd person singular present ind. of do1 .
- dots — Plural form of dot.
- doty — (of wood) decayed.
- dout — Obsolete spelling of doubt.
- dowt — a cigarette butt
- drat — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- dt&e — Developmental Test and Evaluation
- dt's — the, delirium tremens.
- dtlr — Department of Transport, Local Government, and the Regions
- dtls — Descriptive Top-Level Specification
- dtmf — Dual Tone Multi Frequency
- dtor — (computing) abbreviation of destructor.
- dtss — (operating system) The first commercial time-sharing system, created by Dartmouth College and sold by General Electric around 1967. GE's Information Service Divsion (ISD) marketed DTSS which was running on a system called GE-265 (a combination of the front-end processor the Datanet-30 and the GE-235). DTSS was ported (and significantly improved by GE ISD around 1965-1966 on a combination of DN-30 and GE-635). This proprietary system, called Mk-II, later improved by GE and renamed Mk-III, is still working today (1997) as part of the GE service bureau that also includes IBM and Unix computers.
- dttp — either of two pyrimidine nucleotides used to synthesize DNA.
- duct — any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- duet — a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
- duit — doit (def 1).
- dunt — a hard blow or hit, especially one that makes a dull sound; thump.
- durt — Alternative form of dirt.
- dust — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- duty — something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
- east — a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- eath — (Now chiefly dialectal) Easily.
- eats — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).