7 Letter Words That Start With DE

despair

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

Noun : Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to despair.

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

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

Adjective : Deliberately impassive or expressionless.

Verb : In a deadpan manner.

decline

Noun : The act of declining or refusing something.

Verb : (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.

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) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.

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

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

decorum

Noun : (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.

Noun : (countable) A convention of social behavior.

declare

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.

Verb : (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.

deviant

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

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

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

despite

Noun : Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.

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

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

demesne

Noun : A region or area; a domain.

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.

despise

Verb : To regard with contempt or scorn.

Verb : To disregard or ignore.

deliver

Verb : To bring or transport something to its destination.

Verb : To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

Verb : (intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.

deflect

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

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

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).

devoted

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

Adjective : Zealous; characterized by devotion.

Adjective : Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.

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 condemn; to express strong disapproval of.

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

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

devised

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

Adjective : That can be devised or invented.

default

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

Noun : (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.

Noun : A selection made in the absence of an alternative.

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 : (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.

defiant

Adjective : Boldly resisting opposition.

Noun : One who defies opposition.

Adjective : Defying.

debauch

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

Verb : (intransitive) To indulge in revelry.

Noun : An individual act of debauchery.

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 : (literal, archaic) Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.

deficit

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

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

derived

Adjective : A product of derivation

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.

denizen

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

Noun : One who frequents a place.

Noun : (biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.

deprave

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

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

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

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

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.

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 severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.

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 : Deadly, fatal, causing death.

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

Verb : Extremely, dreadfully.

derided

Adjective : Disparaged; subject to criticism or mockery.

delimit

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

deicide

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

Noun : The killing of a deity; godslaughter.

Noun : The killer of a deity.

declaim

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.

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

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.

Noun : (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.

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

devilry

Noun : Mischief.

Noun : Wickedness; cruelty.

Noun : An act of such mischief, wickedness, cruelty, or 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.

Noun : (mechanical, HVAC, engineering) Air that is subject to little or no ventilation, thus, little to no air exchange.

descant

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

Verb : (intransitive) To discuss at length.

Noun : A lengthy discourse on a subject.

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 amount of a certain phenomenon (such as stuff, things, energy, or otherwise) in a given area (surface area) or volume (amount of space).

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.

deposit

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

Noun : (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.

Noun : A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit

devolve

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).

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

Verb : (especially of government authority) To shift or to be transferred from a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.

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.

Noun : (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

demonic

Adjective : Pertaining to demons or evil spirits; demoniac.

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

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

detract

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

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

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 : (transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):

Verb : To use up, exhaust, or consume (power or resources).

Verb : (medicine) To reduce the amount of a substance with a medication or medical procedure or due to a illness.

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 time when dew begins to form.

Noun : The forming of dew.

denoted

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

Verb : (transitive) To indicate; to mark.

Verb : (transitive) To make overt.

deraign

Verb : (ambitransitive) To engage in battle or combat.

Verb : (transitive) To determine or decide by combat; to fight out.

Verb : (transitive) To ready or prepare for combat.

denotes

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

Verb : (transitive) To indicate; to mark.

Verb : (transitive) To make overt.

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

depress

Verb : To make depressed, sad or bored.

Verb : To press down.

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

decease

Noun : (formal) Death, departure from life.

Verb : (formal, transitive) To cause to die.

Verb : (now rare) To die.

decapod

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

Noun : (zoology) Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.

Adjective : (zoology) Having ten legs.

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 : A plant of species Dalibarda repens.

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

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

Adjective : Unswervingly dedicated; resolutely determined.

Adjective : (Australia, colloquial) Complete and utter; total.

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

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.]

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

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

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 bereave.

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

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

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.

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

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

detinue

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

Noun : A person or thing detained; a detainee.

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 group of parishes for which a rural dean has responsibility.

Noun : The house in which a dean lives.

derange

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

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

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

delayed

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

deadeye

Adjective : Very accurate in shooting or throwing.

Noun : A very accurate marksman.

Adjective : (concerning a stare) Cold; unfriendly.

denuded

Adjective : exposed by erosion

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