7 Letter Words That Start With DE

despair

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to despair.

Verb : (intransitive) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. [(often) with of]

delight

Noun : Joy; pleasure.

Noun : Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

Verb : To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.

deadpan

Adjective : Deliberately impassive or expressionless.

Adjective : Having such a face or look.

Verb : In a deadpan manner.

decline

Noun : Downward movement, fall.

Noun : A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.

Noun : A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.

devotee

Noun : An ardent enthusiast or admirer.

Noun : (religion) A believer in a particular religion or god.

Noun : (slang) A person (almost exclusively a man) with a sexual attraction for people with physical disabilities, especially amputees.

develop

Verb : (transitive or impersonal, now rare) To discover, find out; to uncover.

Verb : (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

decorum

Noun : (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.

Noun : (countable) A convention of social behavior.

declare

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.

Verb : (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.

deviant

Adjective : Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.

Noun : A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.

Noun : A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.

despite

Noun : (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.

Noun : (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.

Noun : Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.

demesne

Noun : A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.

Noun : A region or area; a domain.

despise

Verb : To regard with contempt or scorn.

Verb : To disregard or ignore.

deliver

Verb : To set free from restraint or danger.

Verb : (process) Senses having to do with birth.

Verb : To assist in the birth of.

deflect

Verb : (transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path or position.

Verb : (transitive, ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.

Verb : (intransitive) To deviate from an original path or position.

devoted

Adjective : Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.

Adjective : Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.

Adjective : Zealous; characterized by devotion.

deviate

Verb : (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

Verb : (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to diverge.

deplore

Verb : (transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.

Verb : (transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.

Verb : (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.

devised

Adjective : That can be devised or invented.

Adjective : Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.

default

Noun : (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.

Noun : (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.

Noun : (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

defunct

Adjective : No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

Adjective : (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.

Adjective : (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.

defiant

Adjective : Defying.

Adjective : Boldly resisting opposition.

Noun : One who defies opposition.

debauch

Noun : An individual act of debauchery.

Noun : An orgy.

Verb : (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.

descent

Noun : An instance of descending; act of coming down.

Noun : A way down.

Noun : A sloping passage or incline.

devious

Adjective : Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.

Adjective : Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.

deficit

Noun : Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.

Noun : A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.

derived

Adjective : (systematics) Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species.

Adjective : (comparable, archaic, taxonomy) Possessing features believed to be more advanced or improved than those other organisms.

Adjective : A product of derivation

denizen

Noun : An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.

Noun : One who frequents a place.

Noun : (British, historical) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.

deprave

Verb : (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile

Verb : (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt

debased

Adjective : Brought low; degraded.

Adjective : (heraldry) Abased, abaissé: (of a charge) borne lower than usual.

degrade

Verb : (transitive) To lower in value or social position.

Verb : (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.

Verb : (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

debacle

Noun : An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

Noun : (ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

decency

Noun : The quality of being decent; propriety.

Noun : That which is proper or becoming.

descend

Verb : Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.

Verb : (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.

Verb : (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).

destiny

Noun : That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.

Noun : That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

Noun : One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).

destroy

Verb : (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.

Verb : (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.

Verb : (transitive) To put down or euthanize.

demerit

Noun : A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.

Noun : A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.

Noun : That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

deathly

Adjective : Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death.

Adjective : Deadly, fatal, causing death.

Adjective : Extreme.

derided

Adjective : Disparaged; subject to criticism or mockery.

delimit

Verb : (transitive, literal, figurative) To mark or fix the limits of.

deicide

Noun : The killing of a deity; godslaughter.

Noun : The killer of a deity.

Noun : (Christianity, theology) The crucifixion of Jesus, viewed as a crime.

declaim

Verb : To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.

Verb : To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

Verb : To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.

defined

Adjective : Having a definition or value.

Adjective : (bodybuilding) Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.

demotic

Adjective : Of or for the common people.

Adjective : Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.

Adjective : Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

devilry

Noun : Mischief.

Noun : Wickedness; cruelty.

Noun : An action performed with the help of a devil; witchcraft.

dead air

Noun : (idiomatic, broadcasting) An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.

Noun : (idiomatic, by extension) A quiet or awkward moment in a conversation where neither individual is speaking.

descant

Noun : A lengthy discourse on a subject.

Noun : (music) A counterpoint melody sung or played above the theme.

Verb : (intransitive) To discuss at length.

deceive

Verb : (transitive) To trick or mislead.

de novo

Adjective : Anew, afresh, from the beginning; without consideration of previous instances, proceedings or determinations.

Verb : anew (from the beginning)

deplume

Verb : (transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To lay bare; to expose.

Verb : To condense excess water vapor from the flue gas.

deigned

Verb : (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.

Verb : (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.

Verb : (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.

density

Noun : (physics) A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.

Noun : The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.

Noun : (mathematics, statistics) The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable.

deposit

Noun : (geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.

Noun : (law) Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.

Noun : (banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.

devolve

Verb : (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.

Verb : (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.

Verb : (especially of a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.) To transfer authority and responsibility for (something) to (another entity).

despoil

Verb : (transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.

Verb : (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive or reflexive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

demonic

Adjective : Pertaining to demons or evil spirits; demoniac.

Adjective : Pertaining to daemons in ancient Greek thought; concerning supernatural ‘genius’.

Adjective : (by extension) Extremely cruel or evil; abhorrent or repugnant; diabolical.

detract

Verb : (intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.

Verb : (transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to derogate; to defame or decry.

delphic

Adjective : Of or relating to Delphi or its oracles.

Adjective : Obscurely prophetic.

Adjective : Relating to a womb

details

Noun : true confidential informatio

detente

Noun : Alternative form of détente [(chiefly politics) A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.]

deplete

Verb : (ambitransitive) To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

Verb : To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.

decided

Adjective : Determined; resolute.

Adjective : Clear; unmistakable, definite, unquestionable.

Noun : A voter etc. who has reached their decision.

demigod

Noun : (mythology) A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

Noun : Someone held up for reverence as a supreme example.

decayed

Adjective : Having undergone decay, rotted.

Adjective : (dated) Reduced in circumstances; having lost one's status or fortune.

despond

Verb : (intransitive) To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.

Noun : (archaic) Despondency.

decreed

Adjective : fixed or established especially by order or comman

defiled

Adjective : Impure; dirty.

defaced

Adjective : having the surface damaged or disfigure

dewfall

Noun : The forming of dew.

Noun : The time when dew begins to form.

denoted

Verb : (transitive) To indicate; to mark.

Verb : (transitive) To make overt.

Verb : (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey as objective meaning.

deraign

Verb : (law, transitive) To prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat.

Verb : To engage in (battle, combat etc.).

denotes

Verb : (transitive) To indicate; to mark.

Verb : (transitive) To make overt.

Verb : (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey as objective meaning.

deodate

Noun : (obsolete) A gift or offering to, or from, God.

demonym

Noun : A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place, usually derived from the name of the place.

Noun : (obsolete) A pseudonym formed of an adjective.

defence

Noun : The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.

Noun : Something used to oppose attacks.

Noun : An argument in support or justification of something.

depress

Verb : To press down.

Verb : To make depressed, sad or bored.

Verb : (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.

decease

Noun : (formal) Death, departure from life.

Verb : (now rare) To die.

decapod

Noun : A decapod, the 0-10-0 (UK) and 2-10-0 steam locomotive configurations.

Adjective : (zoology) Having ten legs.

Noun : (zoology) Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.

deictic

Adjective : (grammar) Of or pertaining to deixis; to a word whose meaning is dependent on context.

Adjective : Directly pointing out; specifying.

Noun : (grammar) Such a word (such as I or here).

dewdrop

Noun : A droplet of water formed as dew.

Noun : (baseball, slang, dated, 1800s) A slow pitch.

Noun : A plant of species Dalibarda repens.

desired

Adjective : wished-for, longed-for

destine

Verb : to preordain

Verb : to assign something (especially finance) for a particular use

Verb : to attribute a particular destination

dead set

Noun : (hunting) The rigid pose a hunting dog assumes when pointing out game to a hunter.

Noun : A fixed or stationary condition arising from obstacle or hindrance; a deadlock.

Noun : (figuratively, by extension) A determined effort.

de luxe

Adjective : Alternative spelling of deluxe [Very fine in quality or luxurious.]

deduced

Verb : (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.

Verb : (transitive, uncommon) To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.

demarch

Noun : (historical) The chief magistrate of a deme.

Noun : (obsolete) walk; gait

dead pan

Adjective : Alternative form of deadpan [Deliberately impassive or expressionless.]

Verb : Alternative form of deadpan [In a deadpan manner.]

Noun : Alternative form of deadpan [A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.]

depeche

Verb : Obsolete form of dispatch. [(transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.]

de facto

Verb : (modal) In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.

Adjective : In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand) A legally undeclared spouse; a partner in a spousal relationship which is not officially declared as a marriage, comparable to a common law husband or wife.

defense

Noun : The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.

Noun : Anything employed to oppose attack(s).

Noun : (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.

de jure

Verb : By right; in accordance with or as deemed by the statute of the law, particularly as opposed to actual practice.

Adjective : Legal; justified by right or by law, especially when in name only.

deprive

Verb : (transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.

Verb : (transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.

Verb : (transitive) To bereave.

deserve

Verb : (transitive) To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.

Verb : (obsolete) To earn, win.

Verb : (obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.

debouch

Noun : (geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.

Noun : (military) A fortress at the end of a defile.

Verb : (intransitive) To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.

detinue

Noun : A person or thing detained; a detainee.

Noun : (law) A legal action to reclaim goods wrongfully detained.

delilah

Noun : The mistress of Samson who betrayed him to the Philistines.

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.

Noun : A beautiful, cunning and treacherous woman; a femme fatale.

deanery

Noun : The position held by a dean.

Noun : The house in which a dean lives.

Noun : The group of parishes for which a rural dean has responsibility.

derange

Verb : (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged.

Verb : (transitive) To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to malfunction or become inoperative.

delayed

Adjective : Happening later than is usual, expected, or desired.

deadeye

Adjective : Very accurate in shooting or throwing.

Adjective : (concerning a stare) Cold; unfriendly.

Noun : (nautical) A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.

denuded

Adjective : exposed by erosion

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