7-letter words starting with dis
- dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
- dislimb — To remove a limb from, to dismember, to pull off arms or legs.
- dislimn — to cause to become dim or indistinct.
- dislink — to disunite
- dismail — (archaic) To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
- dismals — a gloomy state of mind
- dismask — to remove the mask from
- dismast — to deprive (a ship) of masts; break off the masts of.
- dismayd — Obsolete form of dismayed.
- dismayl — to remove a coat of mail from
- dismays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dismay.
- dismiss — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
- disnest — to remove from the nest
- disobey — Fail to obey (rules, a command, or someone in authority).
- disomic — having an extra chromosome in the haploid state that is homologous to an existing chromosome in this set
- disowns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disown.
- dispace — to move or travel about
- dispair — (transitive) To separate (a pair).
- dispand — (obsolete) To spread out; to expand.
- dispark — to release from confinement
- dispart — (now rare) To part, separate.
- dispell — Alternative form of dispel.
- dispels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispel.
- dispend — to pay out; expend; spend.
- dispise — Obsolete spelling of despise.
- display — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- dispone — to arrange
- disport — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dispose — to give a tendency or inclination to; incline: His temperament disposed him to argue readily with people.
- dispost — (transitive) To eject from a post; to displace.
- dispute — to engage in argument or debate.
- disrank — to deprive (oneself or another) of rank, to demote
- disrate — to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- disrobe — Take off one's clothes.
- disroot — to uproot; dislodge.
- disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- 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.