7-letter words starting with de
- defroze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- deftest — Superlative form of deft.
- defunct — If something is defunct, it no longer exists or has stopped functioning or operating.
- defused — Simple past tense and past participle of defuse.
- defuser — a person or device that defuses bombs
- defuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defuse.
- defying — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- degames — lemonwood.
- degauss — to neutralize the magnetic field of (a ship's hull) as a protection against magnetic mines, using equipment producing an opposing magnetic field
- deglaze — to dilute meat sediments in (a pan) in order to make a sauce or gravy
- degloss — to remove the gloss from (a surface), especially in order to roughen: The old paint needs to be deglossed before new paint can be applied.
- deglove — To peel back the skin from part of the body as if removing a glove, especially as the result of an accident.
- degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
- degreed — having an academic degree
- degrees — any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale.
- dehisce — (of fruits, anthers, etc) to burst open spontaneously, releasing seeds, pollen, etc
- dehorns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehorn.
- deicers — Plural form of deicer.
- deicide — the act of killing a god
- deicing — Present participle of deice.
- deictic — proving by direct argument
- deified — to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity: to deify a beloved king.
- deiform — having the form or appearance of a god; sacred or divine
- deigned — Do something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- deindex — to cause to become no longer index-linked
- deirdre — an Irish heroine who elopes to Scotland with her lover to avoid marrying the king: when the lover is treacherously killed, she commits suicide
- deiseal — Motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun; a turning in this direction.
- deistic — a person who believes in deism.
- deities — a god or goddess.
- deja vu — Déjà vu is the feeling that you have already experienced the things that are happening to you now.
- dejecta — waste products excreted through the anus; faeces
- dejects — (rare) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deject.
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- del mar — Norman. 1919–94, British conductor, associated esp with 20th- century British music
- del rio — a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- delaine — a sheer wool or wool and cotton fabric
- delaney — Shelagh [shee-luh] /ˈʃi lə/ (Show IPA), 1939–2011, English playwright.
- delapse — a falling or sinking down
- delated — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delater — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- delator — An accuser; an informer.
- delayed — of or relating to a particle, as a neutron or alpha particle, that is emitted from an excited nucleus formed in a nuclear reaction, the emission occurring some time after the reaction is completed.
- delayer — to prune the administrative structure of (a large organization) by reducing the number of tiers in its hierarchy
- delbert — a male given name, form of Albert.
- deleave — to separate copies of (printed material)
- deledda — Grazia (ˈɡrattsja). 1875–1936, Italian novelist, noted for works, such as La Madre (1920), on peasant life in Sardinia: Nobel prize for literature 1926
- delenda — items to be deleted
- deleted — Simple past tense and past participle of delete.
- deleter — Agent noun of delete; one who deletes.
- deletes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delete.