5 Letter Words That Start With DE

defer

Verb : (transitive) To delay or postpone

Verb : (especially more common, historically) to postpone induction into military service.

Verb : (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).

death

Noun : The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

Noun : Execution (in the judicial sense).

Noun : (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

devil

Noun : (theology) The chief devil; Satan.

Noun : (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.

Noun : (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.

delta

Noun : The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.

Noun : A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.

Noun : (mathematics, physics, engineering) The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".

demur

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To linger; to stay; to tarry

Verb : (intransitive) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.

Verb : (intransitive) To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk

delay

Noun : A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

Noun : (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.

Noun : (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”)

delve

Verb : (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.

deter

Verb : (transitive) To prevent something from happening.

Verb : (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.

Verb : (transitive) To distract someone from something.

deuce

Noun : (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

Noun : (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.

Noun : (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.

depth

Noun : the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep

Noun : the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet

Noun : (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

decay

Noun : The process or result of being gradually decomposed.

Noun : A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.

Noun : (obsolete) Overthrow, downfall, ruin.

deity

Noun : Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.

Noun : A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.

debut

Noun : A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.

Noun : (also attributive) The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece.

Noun : The first appearance of a debutante in society.

dense

Adjective : Having relatively high density.

Adjective : Compact; crowded together.

Adjective : Thick; difficult to penetrate.

decry

Verb : (transitive) To denounce as harmful.

Verb : (transitive) To blame for ills.

deign

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.

decor

Noun : The style of decoration of a room or building.

Noun : A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop.

depot

Noun : A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

Noun : A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.

Noun : (US) A bus station or railway station.

derby

Noun : Any of several annual horse races.

Noun : (by extension) Any organized race.

Noun : (US) A bowler hat.

demon

Noun : An evil supernatural spirit.

Noun : An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.

Noun : (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.

decal

Noun : A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.

Noun : (US) A decorative sticker.

Verb : (transitive) To apply decals to.

decoy

Noun : A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.

Noun : A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.

Noun : Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.

debit

Noun : In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.

Noun : A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.

Verb : To make an entry on the debit side of an account.

dealt

Noun : a 2017 American documentary film directed by Luke Korem.

derma

Noun : The inner layer of the skin.

Noun : A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke.

demit

Verb : (transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield.

Verb : To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Noun : The act of demitting.

denim

Noun : A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.

detox

Noun : Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or illegal, addictive drugs.

Noun : A detoxification unit.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs.

deeds

Noun : performance of moral or religious act

derth

Noun : Obsolete spelling of dearth [A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.]

dewey

Noun : A surname from Old French.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1890s American usage.

Noun : (US, slang, humorous, uncommon) A charge of DUI.

deion

Noun : A male given name

deism

Noun : A religious philosophy and movement prominent in 17th-18th-century England, France, and what is now the United States which rejected supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, divine revelation, and holy books or revealed religions that assert such things exist.

Noun : A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.

Noun : Belief in a god who ceased to intervene with existence after acting as the cause of the cosmos.

debar

Verb : (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.

Verb : (transitive) To hinder or prevent.

Verb : (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.

dewar

Noun : A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.

Noun : A city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States.

deist

Noun : A surname from German.

Adjective : (religion) of or relating to deism.

Noun : (religion) a person who believes in deism.

delft

Noun : A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.

Noun : A city in South Holland, Netherlands known for its production of blue and white pottery.

Noun : A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.

delph

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A village in Saddleworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD9807).

Noun : Alternative spelling of Delft (“style of earthenware”) [A city in South Holland, Netherlands known for its production of blue and white pottery.]

devon

Noun : A county of England bordered by Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, the Bristol Channel and the English Channel.

Noun : Any of a number of places in US and Canada.

Noun : A town in Alberta, Canada.

debug

Verb : (computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

Verb : (electronics) To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere).

Verb : (US) To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice.

degas

Verb : (transitive) To remove the gas from.

decaf

Noun : (informal) A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.

delhi

Noun : A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.

Noun : A locale in North America; named for the city in India.

Noun : A census-designated place in Merced County, California.

deneb

Noun : (astronomy) A blue giant star in the constellation Cygnus; Alpha (α) Cygni. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle. Deneb is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and one of the most luminous stars known.

deify

Verb : (transitive) To make a god of (something or someone).

Verb : (transitive) To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.

denis

Noun : A male given name from Ancient Greek, a mostly British and Irish spelling variant of Dennis.

Noun : A surname.

devos

Noun : A surname from Dutch.

deere

Noun : A surname

Adjective : Archaic spelling of dear. [(Ireland, UK) High in price; expensive.]

Noun : Archaic spelling of dear. [A very kind, loving person.]

derry

Noun : A city in northwestern Northern Ireland; also known as Londonderry.

Noun : One of the traditional counties in northwestern Northern Ireland; known as County Derry, or officially as County Londonderry.

Noun : A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

dente

Noun : A surname from Italian.

denay

Noun : (obsolete) denial; refusal

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To deny, refuse.

decks

Noun : Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.

Noun : (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.

Noun : (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.

deane

Noun : A surname from Middle English, a variant of Dean.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD6907).

deice

Verb : (transitive) To remove the ice from something.

Verb : (intransitive) To lose its ice; to thaw.

demos

Noun : (originally Ancient Greece) An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.

Noun : (political science, singular or plural) The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people.

deals

Noun : (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.

Noun : (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).

Verb : (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.

defly

Verb : Obsolete form of deftly. [In a deft manner; quickly and neatly in action.]

deka-

deary

Noun : (informal) A dear; a darling.

Noun : (informal) A term of address for a female.

demob

Verb : (Britain) To demobilize; to release someone from military service.

Noun : (UK) Demobilization; release from military service.

detty

dermo

Noun : perkinsosis

della

Noun : A female given name originating as a coinage.

dekko

Noun : (Britain, slang) A look; a glance.

defoe

Noun : An English surname originating as a patronymic.

Noun : Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 to 1661 – 1731), English trader, writer, journalist and pamphleteer best known for writing Robinson Crusoe

debow

devel

Noun : (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel [(Scotland) A hard blow.]

Verb : (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel [(transitive, Scotland) To hit (something) hard.]

dewan

Noun : (historical) A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor.

debye

Noun : (physics) The CGS unit of electric dipole moment, defined as 1 D = 10⁻¹⁸ statcoulomb-centimetre and computable from the SI unit coulomb-metre by multiplying by the factor 3.33564 × 10⁻³⁰.

Noun : A surname.

decad

Noun : (music) A group of ten notes from which the consonant triads may be constructed

Noun : Archaic form of decade (“period of ten years”). [A group, set, or series of ten ]

Noun : Archaic form of decade (“group of ten”). [A group, set, or series of ten ]

debts

Noun : An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.

Noun : The state or condition of owing something to another.

Noun : (finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.

delos

Noun : An island in the Cyclades, Greece.

denny

Noun : A diminutive of the male given names Denis or Dennis.

Noun : A surname of Scottish origin.

Noun : A town in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8082).

derek

Noun : A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Noun : A surname.

demes

Noun : A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica.

Noun : (ecology) A distinct local population of plants or animals.

dexes

Noun : (physics and astrophysics) An order or factor of ten.

Noun : (roleplaying games) Dexterity.

Noun : (colloquial) Dextromethorphan.

deems

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

deets

Noun : (slang) Details.

Noun : (slang) dox, personal information of an individual usually published without their consent).

desex

Verb : (transitive) To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization.

delis

Noun : (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.

Noun : (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

Noun : A surname.

dents

Noun : A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.

Noun : (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.

Noun : A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.

deaux

demic

Adjective : (rare) Of or pertaining to a distinct population of people

Adjective : (ecology) Of or pertaining to a deme

Adjective : (dialect) Dysfunctional; broken

detat

delia

Noun : A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Noun : A village in Alberta, Canada.

Noun : A city in Kansas.

dench

Noun : An English surname.

Adjective : (UK, slang) Excellent; impressive; awesome.

Adjective : (UK, slang, of a man) Well-built, muscular, attractive.

deave

Verb : to deafe

devex

Adjective : Bending down; sloping.

Noun : (programming) Abbreviation of developer experience. [(computing) A developer's feeling about their tools, processes, constrains etc, and how it impacts productivity.]

decca

Noun : Archaic spelling of Dhaka. [The capital city of Bangladesh.]

devow

Verb : (obsolete) To give up; to devote.

Verb : (obsolete) To disavow; to disclaim.

debra

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew popular in the 1950s and the 1960s.

delly

Noun : Obsolete form of Delhi. [A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.]

demi-

dears

Noun : is a Japanese manga series co-written and illustrated by Banri Sendo and Shibuko Ebara, credited under their pen name Peach-Pit.

dearn

Noun : Alternative form of dern [(obsolete) A secret; secrecy.]

Adjective : Alternative form of dern [(obsolete, dialectal) Hidden; secret; private.]

Verb : Alternative form of dern [(transitive, obsolete) To hide; secrete, as in a hole.]

denys

Noun : (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Denis

detre

deeks

Verb : (Tyneside) To look.

Noun : (Tyneside) A look.

detab

depuy

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