Words starting with dead
4 letter words starting with dead
- dead — A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- dead ahead — directly in front
- dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.
- dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
5 letter words starting with dead
6 letter words starting with dead
- deaded — Simple past tense and past participle of dead.
- deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
- deader — a person who is dead
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- deadly embrace — deadlock
7 letter words starting with dead
- dead-on — exactly right, accurate, or pertinent: The film director has a dead-on feel for characterization.
- deadend — Alternative spelling of dead-end.
- deadens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deaden.
- deadest — no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals.
- deadeye — either of a pair of disclike wooden blocks, supported by straps in grooves around them, between which a line is rove so as to draw them together to tighten a shroud
8 letter words starting with dead
- dead-end — terminating in a dead end: a dead-end street.
- deadbeat — If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society.
- deadbeef — (convention, storage) /ded-beef/ The hexadecimal pattern used to fill words of freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments including the RS/6000; equal to decimal 3,735,928,559 (unsigned) or -559,038,737 (32-bit signed). As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory).
- deadbolt — a locking bolt that is turned by the key rather than a spring
- deadborn — (dated, rare) Stillborn.
9 letter words starting with dead
- dead-beat — If you are dead-beat, you are very tired and have no energy left.
- dead-head — To dead-head a plant which is flowering means to remove all the dead flowers from it.
- dead-melt — to melt (steel) until killed.
- dead-spot — Anatomy. a small area on the retina that is insensitive to light due to the interruption, where the optic nerve joins the retina, of the normal pattern of light-sensitive rods and cones.
- dead-tree — printed on paper
10 letter words starting with dead
- dead-metal — the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
- dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
- deadheaded — Simple past tense and past participle of deadhead.
- deadliness — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlining — Present participle of deadline.
11 letter words starting with dead
- dead-headed — a person who attends a performance, sports event, etc., or travels on a train, airplane, etc., without having paid for a ticket, especially a person using a complimentary ticket or free pass.
- dead-nettle — any Eurasian plant of the genus Lamium, such as L. alba (white dead-nettle), having leaves resembling nettles but lacking stinging hairs: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- dead-stroke — relating to a stroke made that has no kickback or reverberation
14 letter words starting with dead
- dead-and-alive — (of a place, activity, or person) dull; uninteresting
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