7-letter words starting with di
- dibutyl — (of a substance) that contains two butyl groups per molecule
- dicamba — a white crystalline solid used as a weedkiller
- dichord — a musical instrument with two strings, usually of the ancient or medieval period
- dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- dickers — Plural form of dicker.
- dickeys — Plural form of dickey.
- dicking — (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- dickish — (US, colloquial, coarse, pejorative) Offensively unpleasant and vexatious.
- dickite — a polymorph of kaolinite.
- dickson — Leonard Eugene, 1874–1954, U.S. mathematician.
- dicofol — a white crystalline solid, C 14 H 9 Cl 5 O, derived from DDT and used to protect crops from mites.
- diconal — a brand of dipanone, an opiate drug with potent analgesic properties: used to relieve severe pain
- dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- dictier — high-class or stylish.
- diction — Someone's diction is how clearly they speak or sing.
- dictums — Plural form of dictum.
- dicycly — the state or condition of being dicyclic
- didache — a treatise, perhaps of the 1st or early 2nd century ad, on Christian morality and practices
- diddled — Simple past tense and past participle of diddle.
- diddler — Informal. to move back and forth with short rapid motions; jiggle: Diddle the switch and see if the light comes on.
- diddles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diddle.
- diddley — Bo [boh] /boʊ/ (Show IPA), (Elias McDaniel) 1928–2008, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, guitarist, and composer.
- diderot — Denis (dəni). 1713–84, French philosopher, noted particularly for his direction (1745–72) of the great French Encyclopédie
- didicoy — (in Britain) one of a group of caravan-dwelling roadside people who live like Gypsies but are not true Romanies
- die for — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- die off — a sudden, natural perishing of large numbers of a species, population, or community.
- die out — If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely.
- die-off — a sudden, natural perishing of large numbers of a species, population, or community.
- dieback — a condition in a plant in which the branches or shoots die from the tip inward, caused by any of several bacteria, fungi, or viruses or by certain environmental conditions.
- diehard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- diesels — Plural form of diesel.
- 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
- diethyl — (organic chemistry) Two ethyl groups attached to the same molecule.
- dietine — a minor or low-ranking diet or assembly
- dieting — Present participle of diet.
- differs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differ.
- diffing — Present participle of diff.
- difform — different or irregular in form; not uniform
- diffuse — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- dig out — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
- digamma — a letter of the early Greek alphabet that generally fell into disuse in Attic Greek before the classical period and that represented a sound similar to English w.
- digests — Plural form of digest.
- diggers — a person or an animal that digs.
- digging — to make one's way or work by or as by removing or turning over material: to dig through the files.
- dighted — Simple past tense and past participle of dight.
- digibox — a device which converts the signals from a digital television broadcast into a form which can be viewed on a standard television set
- digicam — A digital camera.