7 Letter Words That Start With DE

develop

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

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

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

despite

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

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

Noun : Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.

dessert

Noun : The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc.

Noun : A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal.

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

despair

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

Verb : (transitive) To cause to despair.

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

deliver

Verb : To set free from restraint or danger.

Verb : (process) To do with birth.

Verb : To assist in the birth of.

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.

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 : That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another.

Noun : (banking) Money placed in an account.

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.

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.

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).

descent

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

Noun : A way down.

Noun : A sloping passage or incline.

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.

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.

despise

Verb : To regard with contempt or scorn.

Verb : To disregard or ignore.

defiant

Adjective : Defying.

Adjective : Boldly resisting opposition.

Noun : One who defies opposition.

deceive

Verb : (transitive) To trick or mislead.

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.

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 : (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.

deficit

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

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

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.

destroy

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To damage beyond use or repair.

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

Verb : (transitive) To put down or euthanize.

detente

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

defunct

Adjective : (now rare) Deceased, dead.

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.

deplete

Verb : 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.

devious

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

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

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.

devolve

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.

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.

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.

descend

Verb : (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.

Verb : (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.

Verb : (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

debrief

Verb : (transitive) To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).

Verb : (transitive) To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.

deviate

Noun : (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.

Noun : (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.

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

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.

denizen

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

Noun : One who frequents a place.

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

deflect

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

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 its original path.

de facto

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

Adjective : In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to de jure.)

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.

detract

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

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

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.

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

devoted

Adjective : Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.

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

Adjective : Zealous; characterized by devotion.

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.

demigod

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

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

details

Noun : true confidential informatio

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.

deadpan

Adjective : Deliberately impassive or expressionless.

Adjective : Having such a face or look.

Verb : In a deadpan manner.

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.

derrick

Noun : A device that is used for lifting and moving large objects.

Noun : A framework that is constructed over a mine or oil well for the purpose of boring or lowering pipes.

Noun : (obsolete) A hangman.

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.

defraud

Verb : (transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.

Verb : (archaic) To deprive.

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.

dentist

Noun : A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.

decimal

Noun : (countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

Noun : (informal, uncountable) The decimal system itself.

Noun : (informal) A decimal place.

decency

Noun : The quality of being decent; propriety.

Noun : That which is proper or becoming.

deja vu

Noun : Alternative spelling of déjà vu. [The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case.]

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.

decried

Noun : One who decries.

dervish

Noun : A member of a Sufi Muslim ascetic fraternity of mendicant friars.

Noun : (historical) A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), the Dhulbahante anti-colonial polity geographically corresponding with Khaatumo.

Noun : (Islam) An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.

defined

Adjective : Having a definition or value.

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

devotee

Noun : An ardent enthusiast or admirer.

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

Noun : (slang) Someone with an amputee fetish.

deposed

Adjective : removed from office or powe

delimit

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

Verb : (transitive) To demarcate.

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.

deflate

Verb : (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre

Verb : (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

Verb : (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.

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.

deluded

Adjective : Being affected by delusions.

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.

decided

Adjective : Determined; resolute.

Adjective : Clear; unmistakable.

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

destine

Verb : to preordain

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

Verb : to have a particular destination

dealing

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) A business transaction.

Noun : One's manner of acting toward others; behaviour; interactions or relations with others.

deserts

Noun : an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserve

denison

Noun : A male given name

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Crawford County, Iowa, United States.

decease

Noun : (formal) Death, departure from life.

Verb : (now rare) To die.

deprave

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

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

debauch

Noun : An individual act of debauchery.

Noun : An orgy.

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

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.

defacto

Noun : Alternative form of de facto [(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.]

decrete

decatur

Noun : A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Alabama.

Noun : A city, the county seat of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Macon County, Illinois.

devised

Adjective : That can be devised or invented.

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

desktop

Noun : The top surface of a desk.

Noun : (computing) A desktop computer.

Noun : (computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.

denotes

Verb : (transitive) To indicate; to mark.

Verb : (transitive) To make overt.

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

decrypt

Verb : (transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

Noun : A decoded communication.

decibel

Noun : A common measure of sound intensity ratio that is one tenth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale. It is defined as dB = ⅒log₁₀(P₁ / P₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the relative powers of the sound.

debride

Verb : (transitive) To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like).

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.

designs

Noun : A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.

Noun : A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.

Noun : A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

desired

Adjective : wished-for, longed-for

deville

Noun : A commune in Ardennes department, Grand Est, France.

Noun : A census-designated place in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Noun : A surname from French.

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.

delayed

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

demeter

Noun : (Greek mythology) The goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone.

Noun : (astronomy) 1108 Demeter, a main belt asteroid.

de jure

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

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

derives

Verb : (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.

Verb : (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.

Verb : (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).

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.

deltoid

Noun : (anatomy) The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder.

Noun : (anatomy) The deltoid ligament, a triangular ligament on the human ankle.

Noun : (geometry) A kite (quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end).

denture

Noun : A set of teeth, the teeth viewed as a unit.

Noun : An artificial replacement of one or more teeth.

Noun : (often in the plural) A complete replacement of all teeth in a mouth.

devices

Noun : an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices

detroit

Noun : The largest city and former capital of Michigan, United States, a major port on the Detroit River, known as the traditional automotive center of the U.S. It is the county seat of Wayne County.

Noun : (metonymically) The United States' automotive industry.

denuded

Adjective : exposed by erosion

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