7-letter words starting with di
- dissave — to withdraw or spend savings, especially to meet increased living expenses.
- disseat — to unseat.
- dissect — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- dissent — to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
- dissert — to discourse on a subject.
- dissing — to show disrespect for; affront.
- distaff — a staff with a cleft end for holding wool, flax, etc., from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
- distain — to discolor; stain; sully.
- distant — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- distend — Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
- distent — distended.
- distfix — (programming) ("distributed fixity"?) A description of an operator represented by multiple symbols before, between, and/or after the arguments. The classical example is the C conditional operator, "?:" which is written E1 ? E2 : E3 If E1 is true it returns E2 otherwise it returns E3. Several functional programming languages, e.g. Hope, Haskell, have similar operators ("if E1 then E2 else E3"). getRow:row andColumn:col ofCell:cell is a message with three arguments, row, col, and cell.
- distich — a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
- distill — to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
- distome — a genus of digenetic parasitic flatworms having two suckers, one ventral and the other oral
- distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- distrix — the splitting of the ends of hairs
- distune — to cause (an instrument) to be out of tune
- disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- disturn — (obsolete) To turn aside.
- distyle — having two columns.
- disused — discontinuance of use or practice: Traditional customs are falling into disuse.
- diswarn — (obsolete) To dissuade from by previous warning.
- disyoke — to free from or as from a yoke.
- ditched — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
- ditcher — a person who digs ditches.
- ditches — Plural form of ditch.
- dithers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dither.
- dithery — a trembling; vibration.
- dithiol — a chemical compound consisting of two thiols
- ditmars — Raymond Lee, 1876–1942, U.S. zoologist and author.
- ditsier — Comparative form of ditsy.
- dittany — a Cretan plant, Origanum dictamnus, of the mint family, having spikes of purple flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal qualities.
- ditties — Plural form of ditty.
- ditting — Present participle of dit.
- dittoed — the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
- ditzier — Comparative form of ditzy.
- diuerse — Obsolete spelling of diverse.
- diurnal — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- diverge — to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off.
- diverse — of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike: a wide range of diverse opinions.
- diverts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divert.
- divests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divest.
- divided — separated; separate.
- divider — a person or thing that divides.
- divides — Separate or be separated into parts.
- divined — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
- diviner — a theologian; scholar in religion.
- divines — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
- divinyl — (chemistry) Two vinyl functional groups in a molecule.