Octordle Words Starting With D

DAB (6) [noun] A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. | [noun] A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. | [noun] A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. | [noun] One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept. | [noun] A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder. | [adjective] (costers) Bad. DAD (5) [noun] A father, a male parent. | [noun] (familiar) Used to address one's father | [noun] Used to address an older adult male | [noun] A lump or piece. DAG (5) [noun] A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. | [noun] A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. | [verb] To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. | [noun] A skewer. | [interjection] Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. | [noun] One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance. | [noun] A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. | [noun] A misty shower; dew. | [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. DAH (7) [noun] The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] (Burma) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard. DAK (8) [noun] A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers. DAL (4) [noun] Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils. | [noun] A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc. | [noun] A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea. DAM (6) [noun] A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding. | [noun] The water reservoir resulting from placing such structure. | [noun] A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band. | [noun] Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (correlative to sire). | [noun] An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee. | [interjection] Damn. DAP (6) [noun] Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs. | [noun] A fistbump. | [verb] To greet with a dap. DAW (7) [noun] A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw. | [noun] An idiot, a simpleton; fool. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn. DAY (7) [noun] Any period of 24 hours. | [noun] A period from midnight to the following midnight. | [noun] Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth). DEB (6) [noun] Debutante ball or debut. | [noun] A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society. | [noun] A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment. DEE (4) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter D. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock. | [noun] Police detective. DEL (4) [noun] The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. | [noun] The symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential | [noun] A part, portion | [noun] A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy DEN (4) [noun] A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment. | [noun] A squalid or wretched place; a haunt. | [noun] A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining. | [noun] An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou. | [adverb] (temporal location) At that time. DEV (7) DEW (7) [noun] Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces. | [noun] Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops. | [noun] (but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc. | [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. DEX (11) [noun] An order or factor of ten. | [noun] Dexterity. | [noun] Dextromethorphan. DEY (7) DIB (6) [noun] A dibber (gardening tool) | [noun] One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints. | [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DID (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DIE (4) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. | [noun] A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. | [noun] A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. DIG (5) [noun] An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. | [noun] A plodding and laborious student. | [noun] A thrust; a poke. | [verb] To understand or show interest in. | [noun] Digoxin. DIM (6) [noun] Dimness. | [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. DIN (4) [noun] A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion. | [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. DIP (6) [noun] A lower section of a road or geological feature. | [noun] Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. | [noun] The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. | [noun] A foolish person. | [noun] Initialism of device-independent pixel. | [noun] A diplomat. DIS (4) [noun] An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect. | [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. | [noun] Dissertation. | [noun] Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore. | [pronoun] This. DIT (4) [verb] To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit). | [verb] To close up. | [noun] A ditty, a little melody. | [noun] The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] Decimal digit | [adjective] Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French. DOC (6) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence. | [noun] A documentary. DOE (4) [noun] A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used). | [noun] A female rabbit. | [noun] A female hare. | [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [adverb] Though DOG (5) [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. | [noun] Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. | [noun] A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. DOL (4) [noun] The unit of measurement for pain. DOM (6) [noun] A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. | [noun] A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil DON (4) [noun] A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge. | [noun] An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents. | [noun] A mafia boss. | [verb] (clothing) To put on, to dress in. DOR (4) [noun] A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying | [noun] Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee | [noun] A trick, joke, or deception DOS (4) [noun] A party, celebration, social function. | [noun] A hairdo. | [noun] Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts). | [noun] A party, celebration, social function. DOT (4) [noun] A small, round spot. | [noun] (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. | [noun] A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. | [noun] A dowry. DOW (7) DRY (7) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. DUB (6) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. | [noun] A blow, thrust, or poke. | [noun] An unskillful, awkward person. | [noun] A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed. | [noun] A pool or puddle. | [noun] A twenty dollar sack of marijuana. | [noun] A lock. DUD (5) [noun] A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. | [noun] A failure of any kind. | [noun] Clothes, now always used in plural form duds. DUE (4) [noun] Deserved acknowledgment. | [noun] (in plural dues) A membership fee. | [noun] That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. DUG (5) [verb] To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. | [verb] To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. | [verb] To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. DUI (4) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUN (4) [noun] A brownish grey colour. | [adjective] Of a brownish grey colour. | [noun] A collector of debts. | [noun] A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago. | [noun] An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland. | [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. | [noun] A mound or small hill. | [interjection] Imitating suspenseful music. DUO (4) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUP (6) DYE (7) [noun] A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. | [noun] Any hue, color, or blee. | [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [noun] A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

DABS (7) [noun] A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. | [noun] A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval. | [noun] A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. DACE (7) [noun] The shoal-forming fish Leuciscus leuciscus common in fast-flowing rivers in England and Wales and in Europe. | [noun] Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America. DADA (6) [noun] Father, dad. | [noun] (Southeast Asia) Illegal drugs. | [noun] A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art. DADO (6) [noun] The section of a pedestal above the base. | [noun] The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. | [noun] The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain. DADS (6) [noun] A father, a male parent. | [noun] (familiar) Used to address one's father | [noun] Used to address an older adult male DAFF (11) [noun] A fool; an idiot; a blockhead. | [verb] To be foolish; make sport; play; toy. | [verb] To daunt. | [verb] To toss (aside); to dismiss. | [noun] A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. | [noun] A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East. DAFT (8) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. DAGO (6) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAGS (6) [noun] A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. | [noun] A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. | [verb] To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. DAHL (8) DAHS (8) [noun] The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code. | [noun] (Burma) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard. DAIS (5) [noun] A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. | [noun] A bench, a settle, a pew. | [noun] An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. DAKS (9) [noun] A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers. DALE (5) [noun] A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. | [noun] A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. DALS (5) DAME (7) [noun] Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. | [noun] A matron at a school, especially Eton College. | [noun] In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. DAMN (7) [noun] The use of "damn" as a curse. | [noun] A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. | [noun] The smallest amount of concern or consideration. DAMP (9) [noun] Moisture; humidity; dampness. | [noun] Fog; fogginess; vapor. | [noun] Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity. DAMS (7) [noun] A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding. | [noun] The water reservoir resulting from placing such structure. | [noun] A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band. DANG (6) [noun] A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration. | [verb] Damn. | [adjective] Damn. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash. DANK (9) [noun] Moisture; humidity; water. | [adjective] Dark, damp and humid. | [adjective] (of marijuana) Highly potent. | [verb] To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc. | [noun] A small silver coin formerly used in Persia. DAPS (7) [noun] Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs. | [noun] A fistbump. | [verb] To greet with a dap. DARB (7) DARE (5) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. | [verb] To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. | [noun] A small fish, the dace. DARK (9) [adjective] Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. | [adjective] (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light. | [adjective] Hidden, secret, obscure. | [noun] A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. | [verb] To grow or become dark, darken. DARN (5) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [adjective] Damn. | [adverb] (degree) Damned. | [noun] A place mended by darning. DART (5) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. | [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. DASH (8) [noun] Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar). | [noun] (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code. | [noun] A short run, flight. DATA (5) [noun] (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc. | [noun] (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation. | [noun] (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn. DATE (5) [noun] The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. | [noun] The date palm. | [noun] The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made. DATO (5) DAUB (7) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DAUT (5) DAVY (11) DAWK (12) DAWN (8) [noun] The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. | [noun] The rising of the sun. | [noun] The time when the sun rises. DAWS (8) [noun] A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw. | [noun] An idiot, a simpleton; fool. DAWT (8) DAYS (8) [noun] Any period of 24 hours. | [noun] A period from midnight to the following midnight. | [noun] Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth). | [adverb] During the day. DAZE (14) [noun] The state of being dazed | [noun] A glittering stone. | [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DEAD (6) [noun] (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died. | [noun] (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. | [noun] (usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings. DEAF (8) [noun] A deaf person. | [noun] (with "the") Those who are deaf, taken as a group. | [verb] To deafen. DEAL (5) [noun] A division, a portion, a share. | [noun] (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good). | [noun] An act of dealing or sharing out. | [noun] Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir). DEAN (5) [noun] A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students). | [noun] A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons. | [noun] The senior member of some group of people. | [noun] (chiefly in place names) A hill. DEAR (5) [noun] A very kind, loving person. | [noun] A beloved person. | [noun] An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife. | [adjective] Severe, or severely affected; sore. DEBS (7) [noun] Debutante ball or debut. | [noun] A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society. | [noun] A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment. DEBT (7) [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] 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. DECK (11) [noun] Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. | [noun] 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] A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane. | [verb] (sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance DECO (7) [noun] (underwater diving) Decompression. | [noun] A friendship book in which people add decorative elements such as drawings, stickers and sequins. DEED (6) [noun] An action or act; something that is done. | [noun] A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit. | [noun] Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation. DEEM (7) [noun] An opinion, a judgment, a surmise. | [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. DEEP (7) [noun] (with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc. | [noun] (with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation. | [noun] A deep shade of colour. DEER (5) [noun] A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla | [noun] (in particular) one of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk | [noun] The meat of such an animal; venison. DEES (5) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter D. | [noun] Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock. | [noun] Police detective. DEET (5) DEFI (8) DEFT (8) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. DEFY (11) [noun] A challenge. | [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. DEIL (5) DEKE (9) [noun] A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman. | [noun] As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team. | [noun] A quick detour. DELE (5) [noun] A sign signifying deletion | [verb] (usually imperative) to delete DELF (8) DELI (5) [noun] A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving. | [noun] Food sold at a delicatessen. DELL (5) [noun] A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep. | [noun] A young woman; a wench. DELS (5) [noun] The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. | [noun] The symbol ∂, in the context of a partial differential | [noun] A part, portion DEME (7) [noun] A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | [noun] A distinct local population of plants or animals. DEMO (7) [noun] A demonstration or visual explanation. | [noun] A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully. | [noun] An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount. | [verb] To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release. | [verb] To demolish (especially a house or fixture). DEMY (10) [noun] A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches. | [noun] One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford. | [noun] Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford. DENE (5) [noun] A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet | [noun] A sand dune by the seashore DENS (5) [noun] A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment. | [noun] A squalid or wretched place; a haunt. | [noun] A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining. | [noun] The strong odontoid process of the axis. DENT (5) [noun] A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. | [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. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action | [noun] A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. DENY (8) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DERE (5) [noun] Hurt; harm; injury. | [verb] To hurt; harm; injure; wound. | [verb] To annoy, trouble, grieve. | [noun] That place. DERM (7) [noun] The integument of animal; the skin. | [noun] The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis. | [noun] A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology. | [noun] (usually in the plural) guts DESK (9) [noun] A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath. | [noun] A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession. | [noun] A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news. DEVA (8) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DEVS (8) DEWS (8) [noun] Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces. | [noun] Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops. | [noun] (but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc. DEWY (11) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DEXY (15) DEYS (8) DHAK (12) DHAL (8) [noun] Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils. | [noun] A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc. | [noun] A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea. DHOW (11) [noun] A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail. DIAL (5) [noun] A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed). | [noun] A clock face. | [noun] A sundial. DIBS (7) [noun] The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else. | [verb] To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve. | [interjection] Used to claim this right | [noun] A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. | [noun] A dibber (gardening tool) DICE (7) [noun] Gaming with one or more dice. | [noun] A die. | [noun] That which has been diced. | [noun] A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. DICK (11) [noun] A male person. | [noun] The penis. | [noun] A highly contemptible person; a jerk. | [noun] A detective. | [noun] A declaration. | [numeral] Ten in Cumbrian sheep counting DIDO (6) [noun] A fuss, a row. | [noun] A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. DIDY (9) DIED (6) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. DIEL (5) [adjective] Having a 24-hour period regardless of day or night. DIES (5) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. DIET (5) [noun] The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | [noun] A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | [noun] (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption. | [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [noun] (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly. DIGS (6) [noun] An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. | [noun] A plodding and laborious student. | [noun] A thrust; a poke. DIKE (9) [verb] Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. | [noun] A well-dressed man. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DILL (5) [noun] Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed. | [noun] A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring | [noun] A fool. | [verb] To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain. DIME (7) [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar. | [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar. | [noun] A small amount of money | [verb] (with "on") To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously. DIMS (7) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DINE (5) [noun] Dinnertime | [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. DING (6) [noun] Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. | [noun] A rejection. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [noun] The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. DINK (9) [noun] A soft drop shot. | [noun] A light chip; a chipped pass or shot | [verb] To play a soft drop shot. | [noun] A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle. | [noun] A North Vietnamese soldier. | [noun] Double Income No Kids - a childless couple with two jobs. | [noun] Hard work, especially one's share of a task. | [noun] A penis. | [adjective] Finely dressed, elegant; neat. | [adjective] Not making a requisite amount of progress in one's qualifications. DINS (5) [noun] A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion. | [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. DINT (5) [noun] A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. | [noun] Force, power; especially in by dint of. | [noun] The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. DIOL (5) [noun] Any organic compound having two hydroxy functional groups DIPS (7) [noun] A lower section of a road or geological feature. | [noun] Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. | [noun] The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. DIPT (7) DIRE (5) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRK (9) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DIRL (5) DIRT (5) [noun] Soil or earth. | [noun] A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. | [noun] Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person. DISC (7) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] An intervertebral disc. | [noun] Something resembling a disc. DISH (8) [noun] A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. | [noun] The contents of such a vessel. | [noun] (metonym) A specific type of prepared food. DISK (9) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] Something resembling a disk. | [noun] An intervertebral disc DISS (5) [noun] An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect. | [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. | [noun] Dissertation. | [noun] An Algerian reedy grass used for cordage. DITA (5) DITE (5) DITS (5) [noun] A ditty, a little melody. | [noun] A word; a decree. | [noun] The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. DITZ (14) [noun] A scatterbrained person, especially a woman. DIVA (8) [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges. DIVE (8) [noun] A jump or plunge into water. | [noun] A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. | [noun] A downward swooping motion. | [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature. DJIN (12) DOAT (5) DOBY (10) DOCK (11) [noun] Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash. | [noun] A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant. | [noun] The fleshy root of an animal's tail. | [noun] A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port. | [noun] Part of a courtroom where the accused sits. | [verb] To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven. DOCS (7) [noun] A doctor. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A document, especially (in professional jargon) a piece of technical documentation or legal evidence. | [noun] A documentary. DODO (6) [noun] A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius. | [noun] A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt. | [noun] Fried plantain. DOER (5) [noun] Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. DOES (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [noun] A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used). DOFF (11) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOGE (6) [noun] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. | [noun] A dog. | [noun] Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. DOGS (6) [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. | [noun] Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. | [noun] A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. DOGY (9) DOIT (5) [noun] A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver. | [noun] A small amount; a bit, a jot. | [noun] In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards. | [verb] To stumble; to blunder. DOJO (12) [noun] The ring, made of compacted clay, in which a sumo wrestling match is held. | [noun] A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training. | [noun] (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities, such as meditation or software development. | [noun] The dojo loach, Japanese weather loach, or pond loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus), a freshwater fish native to East Asia. DOLE (5) [noun] Money or other goods given as charity. | [noun] Distribution; dealing; apportionment. | [noun] Payment by the state to the unemployed. | [noun] Sorrow or grief; dolour. DOLL (5) [noun] A toy in the form of a human. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman | [noun] A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart. DOLS (5) DOLT (5) [noun] A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. | [verb] To behave foolishly. DOME (7) [noun] A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola | [noun] Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover | [noun] Head (uppermost part of one's body) DOMS (7) DONA (5) DONE (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [noun] A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management. DONG (6) [noun] The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ | [noun] A penis. | [noun] (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. | [noun] Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch. | [noun] A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea. DONS (5) [noun] A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil | [noun] A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge. | [noun] An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents. DOOM (7) [noun] Destiny, especially terrible. | [noun] An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. | [noun] A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair. DOOR (5) [noun] A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. | [noun] Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. | [noun] (immigration) An entry point. DOPA (7) [noun] The amino acid dihydroxyphenylalanine that is generated in the liver from tyrosine and then converted into dopamine in the brain. DOPE (7) [noun] Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface. | [noun] An absorbent material used to hold a liquid. | [noun] Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc. DOPY (10) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DORE (5) DORK (9) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DORM (7) [verb] To reside in a dorm. | [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. DORP (7) [noun] A village or small town; a town considered provincial. DORR (5) DORS (5) [noun] A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying | [noun] Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee | [noun] A trick, joke, or deception DORY (8) [noun] A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers. | [noun] Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish. | [adjective] Of a bright yellow or golden color. | [noun] A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand. DOSE (5) DOSS (5) [noun] The avoidance of work. | [noun] An easy piece of work. | [noun] A place to sleep in; a bed. DOST (5) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOTE (5) [noun] A darling, a cutie. | [noun] An imbecile; a dotard. | [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. DOTH (8) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOTS (5) [noun] A small, round spot. | [noun] (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period. | [noun] A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ. DOTY (8) DOUM (7) DOUR (5) [adjective] Stern, harsh and forbidding. | [adjective] Unyielding and obstinate. | [adjective] Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy. DOUX (12) DOVE (8) [noun] A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae. | [noun] A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. | [noun] Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. | [verb] To swim under water. DOWN (8) [noun] A negative aspect; a downer. | [noun] A grudge (on someone). | [noun] An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. | [noun] (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland | [noun] Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets. DOWS (8) DOXY (15) [noun] A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress. | [noun] A defined opinion. | [noun] A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C22H24N2O8, of the tetracycline class. | [noun] A dachshund. DOZE (14) [noun] A light, short sleep or nap. | [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. DOZY (17) [adjective] Quite sleepy or tired. | [adjective] Intellectually slow. | [adjective] Decaying, rotten, spongy. DRAB (7) DRAG (6) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. | [noun] Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. DRAM (7) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. | [noun] The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma. DRAT (5) [verb] To damn or curse. | [interjection] Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration. DRAW (8) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DRAY (8) [noun] A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads. | [noun] A kind of sledge or sled. | [noun] A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree. DREE (5) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. | [adjective] Long; large; ample; great. | [noun] Length; extension; the longest part. DREG (6) DREK (9) [noun] Trash; worthless merchandise. DREW (8) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. DRIB (7) DRIP (7) [verb] To fall one drop at a time. | [verb] To leak slowly. | [verb] To let fall in drops. | [noun] A drop of a liquid. | [noun] A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. DROP (7) [noun] A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | [noun] A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | [noun] (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general. DRUB (7) [noun] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal. | [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. DRUG (6) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. | [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [noun] A drudge. DRUM (7) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. | [noun] A small hill or ridge of hills. | [noun] A social gathering or assembly held in the evening. DRYS (8) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. DUAD (6) [noun] A pair or couple. | [noun] Dwadasama. | [noun] An unordered pair. DUAL (5) [noun] Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. | [noun] Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. | [noun] (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number. DUBS (7) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUCE (7) DUCI (7) DUCK (11) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [noun] An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. | [noun] A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. | [noun] A term of endearment; pet; darling. DUCT (7) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUDE (6) [noun] A man, generally a younger man. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice. | [noun] An inexperienced cowboy. DUDS (6) [noun] A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. | [noun] A failure of any kind. | [noun] Clothes, now always used in plural form duds. DUEL (5) [noun] Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. | [noun] Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat) | [noun] Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas. DUES (5) [noun] Deserved acknowledgment. | [noun] (in plural dues) A membership fee. | [noun] That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. DUET (5) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUFF (11) [noun] Dough. | [noun] A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed. | [noun] A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums. | [noun] Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor. | [noun] The buttocks. | [verb] To disguise something to make it look new. | [noun] A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East. DUGS (6) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. DUIT (5) DUKE (9) [noun] The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess). | [noun] The sovereign of a small state. | [noun] A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom. DULL (5) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULY (8) [adverb] In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly. | [adverb] Regularly; at the proper time. DUMA (7) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMB (9) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. | [verb] To silence. DUMP (9) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. | [noun] A thick, ill-shapen piece. | [noun] A deep hole in a river bed; a pool. DUNE (5) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. DUNG (6) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. DUNK (9) DUNS (5) [noun] A brownish grey colour. | [noun] A collector of debts. | [noun] An urgent request or demand of payment. DUNT (5) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. | [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. | [noun] The disease gid or sturdy in sheep. DUOS (5) [noun] Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together. | [noun] Any pair of two people. | [noun] Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur. DUPE (7) [noun] A person who has been deceived. | [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [noun] A duplicate of a photographic image. DUPS (7) DURA (5) [noun] The dura mater, the outer covering of the brain and spinal cord. | [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DURE (5) DURN (5) [adjective] Darn; damn. | [adverb] Darn; damned; extremely. | [interjection] Darn; damn | [verb] Rhoticized pronunciation of doing. | [noun] A secret; secrecy. DURO (5) DURR (5) DUSK (9) [noun] A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight. | [noun] A darkish colour. | [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. DUST (5) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUTY (8) [noun] That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. | [noun] The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task. | [noun] A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff. DYAD (9) [noun] A set of two elements treated as one; a pair. | [noun] Any set of two different pitch classes. | [noun] A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation. DYED (9) [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [adjective] Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith. DYER (8) [noun] One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. DYES (8) [noun] A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. | [noun] Any hue, color, or blee. | [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. DYKE (12) [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DYNE (8) [noun] A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.

DACES (8) DACHA (11) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DADAS (7) [noun] Father, dad. DADDY (11) [noun] (usually childish) Father. | [noun] A male lover. | [noun] An informal term of address for a man. DADOS (7) [noun] The section of a pedestal above the base. | [noun] The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. | [noun] The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain. DAFFS (12) [noun] A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East. | [noun] A fool; an idiot; a blockhead. | [noun] A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. DAFFY (15) [adjective] Somewhat mad or eccentric. | [noun] A daffodil. DAGGA (8) [noun] (Zimbabwe) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa indica, or a similar plant of the genus Leonotis. | [noun] Cement. DAGOS (7) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAHLS (9) DAILY (9) [noun] Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day. | [verb] To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks. | [adjective] That occurs every day, or at least every working day | [adverb] Quotidianly, every day DAIRY (9) [noun] (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk. | [noun] A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese. | [noun] A dairy farm. DAISY (9) [noun] A wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals | [noun] Many other flowering plants of various species. | [noun] A boot or other footwear. DALES (6) [noun] A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. | [noun] A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. DALLY (9) [verb] To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle. | [verb] To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet | [verb] To delay unnecessarily; to while away. | [noun] Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping. DAMAN (8) DAMAR (8) [noun] A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis. | [noun] A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae family) and Symplocos (Symplocaceae family), used in varnishes and inks | [noun] Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family) and Hopea (Dipterocarpaceae family), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. DAMES (8) [noun] Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. | [noun] A matron at a school, especially Eton College. | [noun] In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. DAMNS (8) [noun] The use of "damn" as a curse. | [noun] A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot. | [noun] The smallest amount of concern or consideration. DAMPS (10) [noun] Moisture; humidity; dampness. | [noun] Fog; fogginess; vapor. | [noun] Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity. DANCE (8) [noun] A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. | [noun] A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. | [noun] A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister. DANDY (10) [noun] A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance. | [noun] A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl. | [noun] A dandy roller. DANGS (7) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. DANIO (6) [noun] (chiefly in combination) Any of various fish of the genera Danio and Devario. DARBS (8) DARED (7) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DARER (6) DARES (6) [noun] A challenge to prove courage. | [noun] The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. | [noun] Defiance; challenge. DARIC (8) DARKS (10) [noun] A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. | [noun] Ignorance. | [noun] Nightfall. DARKY (13) [noun] A person with dark skin. | [noun] A dark lantern. DARNS (6) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [verb] To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric. DARTS (6) [noun] A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin | [noun] Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow. | [noun] (sometimes figurative) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon. DASHI (9) DASHY (12) DATED (7) [verb] To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. | [verb] To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. | [verb] To determine the age of something. DATER (6) [noun] One who dates. | [noun] A date-stamping device. DATES (6) [noun] The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. | [noun] The date palm. | [noun] The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made. DATOS (6) DATTO (6) DATUM (8) [noun] (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc. | [noun] (plural: data) A fact known from direct observation. | [noun] (plural: data) A premise from which conclusions are drawn. DAUBE (8) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBS (8) [noun] Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. | [noun] A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. | [noun] A crude or amateurish painting. DAUBY (11) DAUNT (6) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAUTS (6) DAVEN (9) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAVIT (9) [noun] A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. | [noun] A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. DAWED (10) DAWEN (9) DAWKS (13) DAWNS (9) [noun] The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. | [noun] The rising of the sun. | [noun] The time when the sun rises. DAWTS (9) DAZED (16) [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear | [adjective] In a state of shock or confusion. | [adjective] Stunned. DAZES (15) [noun] The state of being dazed | [noun] A glittering stone. | [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DEADS (7) DEAIR (6) DEALS (6) [noun] A division, a portion, a share. | [noun] (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good). | [noun] An act of dealing or sharing out. DEALT (6) [verb] To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | [verb] To administer or give out, as in small portions. | [verb] To distribute cards to the players in a game. DEANS (6) [noun] A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students). | [noun] A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons. | [noun] The senior member of some group of people. DEARS (6) [noun] A very kind, loving person. | [noun] A beloved person. | [noun] An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife. DEARY (9) DEASH (9) DEATH (9) [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] (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics. | [noun] (the death) The collapse or end of something. DEAVE (9) DEBAR (8) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] 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. DEBIT (8) [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. DEBTS (8) [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] 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. DEBUG (9) [noun] The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors. | [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). DEBUT (8) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] 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. DEBYE (11) [noun] 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. DECAF (11) [noun] A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink. DECAL (8) [noun] A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily. | [noun] A decorative sticker. | [verb] To apply decals to. DECAY (11) [noun] The process or result of being gradually decomposed. | [noun] A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune. | [verb] To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. DECKS (12) [noun] Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. | [noun] 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] A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane. DECOR (8) [noun] The style of decoration of a room or building. | [noun] A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop. DECOS (8) DECOY (11) [noun] A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger. | [noun] A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game. | [verb] To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap. DECRY (11) [verb] To denounce as harmful. | [verb] To blame for ills. DEDAL (7) DEEDS (7) [noun] An action or act; something that is done. | [noun] A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit. | [noun] Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation. DEEDY (10) [adjective] Industrious; active. | [adjective] Earnest; serious. DEEMS (8) [noun] An opinion, a judgment, a surmise. | [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. DEEPS (8) [noun] (with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc. | [noun] (with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation. | [noun] A deep shade of colour. DEERS (6) DEETS (6) [noun] Details. DEFAT (9) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents DEFER (9) [verb] To delay or postpone | [verb] 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). | [verb] To delay, to wait. | [verb] To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority. DEFIS (9) DEFOG (10) DEGAS (7) [verb] To remove the gas from. DEGUM (9) DEICE (8) DEIFY (12) [verb] To make a god of (something or someone). | [verb] To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity. DEIGN (7) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DEILS (6) DEISM (8) [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. DEIST (6) DEITY (9) [noun] A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. | [noun] The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.] | [noun] A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man. DEKED (11) [verb] To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery. | [verb] To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports. DEKES (10) [noun] A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman. | [noun] As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team. | [noun] A quick detour. DEKKO (14) [noun] A look; a glance. DELAY (9) [noun] A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. | [noun] An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. | [verb] To put off until a later time; to defer. | [verb] To dilute, temper. DELED (7) [verb] (usually imperative) to delete DELES (6) [noun] A sign signifying deletion DELFS (9) DELFT (9) [noun] A style of blue and white earthenware. | [noun] A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch. DELIS (6) [noun] A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving. | [noun] Food sold at a delicatessen. DELLS (6) [noun] A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep. | [noun] A young woman; a wench. DELLY (9) DELTA (6) [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] The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet. DELVE (9) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. | [noun] A pit or den. DEMES (8) [noun] A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | [noun] A distinct local population of plants or animals. DEMIT (8) [noun] The act of demitting. | [noun] A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge. | [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. DEMOB (10) [noun] Demobilization; release from military service. | [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DEMON (8) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DEMOS (8) [noun] A demonstration or visual explanation. | [noun] A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully. | [noun] An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount. DEMUR (8) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] 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. DENES (6) [noun] A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet | [noun] A sand dune by the seashore DENIM (8) [noun] A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern. DENSE (6) [noun] A thicket. | [adjective] Having relatively high density. | [adjective] Compact; crowded together. DENTS (6) [noun] A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact. | [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. | [noun] (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action DEOXY (16) DEPOT (8) [noun] A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. | [noun] A bus station or railway station. | [noun] A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units. DEPTH (11) [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] The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. DERAT (6) DERAY (9) DERBY (11) [noun] Any of several annual horse races. | [noun] (by extension) Any organized race. | [noun] A bowler hat. DERMA (8) [noun] The inner layer of the skin; the dermis | [noun] A Jewish dish of roast or boiled seasoned meat and flour etc. in a casing, especially kishke DERMS (8) DERRY (9) DESEX (13) [verb] To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization. DESKS (10) [noun] A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath. | [noun] A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession. | [noun] A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news. DETER (6) [verb] To prevent something from happening. | [verb] To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. | [verb] To distract someone from something. DETOX (13) [noun] Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or illegal, addictive drugs. | [noun] A detoxification unit. | [verb] To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs. DEUCE (8) [noun] A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. | [noun] A side of a die with two spots. | [noun] A cast of dice totalling two. | [noun] (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger. DEVAS (9) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DEVEL (9) DEVIL (9) [noun] An evil creature. | [noun] (with article) The chief devil; Satan. | [noun] 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. DEVON (9) [noun] (Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage. DEWAN (9) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DEWAR (9) [noun] A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment. DEWAX (16) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. DEWED (10) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. DEXES (13) [noun] An order or factor of ten. DEXIE (13) DHAKS (13) DHALS (9) DHOBI (11) [noun] A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan. DHOLE (9) [noun] An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus. DHOTI (9) [noun] A long loincloth worn by Hindu men in India. | [noun] The cotton fabric used for such loincloths. DHOWS (12) [noun] A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail. DHUTI (9) DIALS (6) [noun] A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed). | [noun] A clock face. | [noun] A sundial. DIARY (9) [noun] A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer. | [noun] A personal organizer or appointment diary. | [verb] To keep a diary or journal. DIAZO (15) [noun] Any compound of this type. | [adjective] Containing a pair of double bonded nitrogen atoms, typically directly attached to an aryl group. DICED (9) [verb] To play dice. | [verb] To cut into small cubes. | [verb] To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. DICER (8) DICES (8) [noun] Gaming with one or more dice. | [noun] A die. | [noun] That which has been diced. DICEY (11) [adjective] Fraught with danger. | [adjective] Of uncertain, risky outcome. | [adjective] Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. DICKS (12) [noun] A male person. | [noun] The penis. | [noun] A highly contemptible person; a jerk. DICKY (15) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. | [adjective] Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious DICOT (8) [noun] A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon. DICTA (8) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DICTY (11) [noun] An upper-class black. | [adjective] Stylish and respectable; high-class | [adjective] Striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious DIDIE (7) DIDOS (7) [noun] A fuss, a row. | [noun] A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. DIDST (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DIENE (6) [noun] An organic compound, especially a hydrocarbon, containing two double bonds. DIETS (6) [noun] The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | [noun] A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | [noun] (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption. DIGHT (10) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGIT (7) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DIKED (11) [verb] Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc. | [verb] To be well dressed. DIKER (10) DIKES (10) [noun] A well-dressed man. | [noun] Formalwear or other fashionable dress. | [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DIKEY (13) DILDO (7) [noun] An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use. | [noun] An idiot, a bore. | [noun] A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii). | [interjection] A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song. DILLS (6) [noun] Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed. | [noun] A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring | [noun] A fool. DILLY (9) [adjective] Redolent of dill (the herb). | [noun] Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. | [noun] A dilly bag. | [noun] A kind of stagecoach. DIMER (8) [noun] A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. DIMES (8) [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar. | [noun] A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar. | [noun] A small amount of money DIMLY (11) [adverb] In a dim manner. DINAR (6) [noun] The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia and Tunisia. | [noun] An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight. DINED (7) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DINER (6) [noun] One who dines. | [noun] A dining car in a railroad train. | [noun] A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades. DINES (6) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DINGE (7) DINGO (7) [noun] Canis lupus dingo, a wild dog native to Australia. DINGS (7) [noun] Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. | [noun] A rejection. | [verb] To hit or strike. DINGY (10) [adjective] Drab; shabby; dirty; squalid | [noun] A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. | [noun] An inflatable rubber life raft. DINKS (10) [noun] A soft drop shot. | [noun] A light chip; a chipped pass or shot | [verb] To play a soft drop shot. DINKY (13) [adjective] Tiny and cute; small and attractive. | [adjective] Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable. | [noun] A person in a relationship with double income and no kids DINTS (6) [noun] A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight. | [noun] Force, power; especially in by dint of. | [noun] The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. DIODE (7) [noun] An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier. DIOLS (6) [noun] Any organic compound having two hydroxy functional groups DIPPY (13) [adjective] Lacking common sense. | [adjective] Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about. | [adjective] Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping. DIPSO (8) [noun] A dipsomaniac; an alcoholic; a drunk. DIRER (6) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRGE (7) [noun] A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. | [noun] A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring. | [verb] To sing dirges DIRKS (10) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DIRLS (6) DIRTS (6) DIRTY (9) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DISCI (8) DISCO (8) [noun] A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights. | [verb] To dance disco-style dances. | [verb] To go to discotheques. DISCS (8) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] An intervertebral disc. | [noun] Something resembling a disc. DISHY (12) [adjective] Attractive; good-looking; sexy. | [adjective] Tending to relay information and gossip. DISKS (10) [noun] A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object. | [noun] Something resembling a disk. | [noun] An intervertebral disc DISME (8) DITAS (6) DITCH (11) [noun] A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. | [verb] To discard or abandon. | [verb] To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. | [noun] Dirt ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc. DITES (6) DITSY (9) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DITTO (6) [noun] That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise. | [noun] A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator. | [noun] A copy; an imitation. DITTY (9) [noun] A short verse or tune. | [noun] A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated. | [verb] To sing; to warble a little tune. DITZY (18) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DIVAN (9) [noun] A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan). | [noun] The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice. | [noun] Any council or assembly. DIVAS (9) [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges. DIVED (10) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DIVER (9) [noun] Someone who dives, especially as a sport. | [noun] Someone who works underwater; a frogman. | [noun] The loon (bird). DIVES (9) [noun] A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature. | [noun] A jump or plunge into water. | [noun] A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. DIVOT (9) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DIVVY (15) [noun] A dividend; a share or portion. | [verb] To divide into portions. | [noun] A foolish person. | [adjective] Divine; very pleasant, wonderful. DIWAN (9) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DIXIT (13) DIZEN (15) DIZZY (27) [verb] To make dizzy, to bewilder. | [adjective] Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded. | [adjective] Producing giddiness. DJINN (13) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology. DJINS (13) DOATS (6) DOBBY (13) [noun] A device in some looms that allows the weaving of small geometric patterns. | [noun] The patterns so woven, or the fabric containing the patterns. | [noun] An evil or mischievous fairy or ghost sometimes said to haunt a building or household. DOBIE (8) DOBLA (8) DOBRA (8) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOCKS (12) [noun] Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially common dock, and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash. | [noun] A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant. | [noun] The fleshy root of an animal's tail. DODGE (8) [noun] An act of dodging. | [noun] A trick, evasion or wile. | [noun] A line of work. DODGY (11) [adjective] Evasive and shifty | [adjective] Unsound and unreliable | [adjective] Dishonest DODOS (7) [noun] A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius. | [noun] A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt. | [noun] Fried plantain. DOERS (6) [noun] Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent. DOEST (6) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOETH (9) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). DOFFS (12) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOGES (7) [noun] The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. | [noun] A dog. | [noun] Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. DOGEY (10) DOGGO (8) [noun] A dog. DOGGY (11) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. | [adjective] Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog. DOGIE (7) [noun] A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. DOGMA (9) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOILY (9) [noun] A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food. | [noun] An old kind of woollen material. DOING (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [interjection] The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object. DOITS (6) DOJOS (13) [noun] The ring, made of compacted clay, in which a sumo wrestling match is held. | [noun] A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training. | [noun] (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities, such as meditation or software development. DOLCE (8) [noun] A soft-toned organ stop. DOLCI (8) DOLED (7) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. DOLES (6) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. DOLLS (6) [noun] A toy in the form of a human. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman | [noun] A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart. DOLLY (9) [noun] A doll. | [noun] A contrivance for stirring: | [noun] A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. | [adjective] Pretty; attractive. | [noun] An offering of fruit or flowers. DOLMA (8) [noun] Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices. DOLOR (6) [noun] Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish. | [noun] A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes. DOLTS (6) [noun] A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard. DOMAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to a dome. | [adjective] In the shape of a dome. | [adjective] Of or relating to an astrological house. DOMED (9) [adjective] In the form of a dome. DOMES (8) [noun] A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola | [noun] Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover | [noun] Head (uppermost part of one's body) DOMIC (10) DONAS (6) DONEE (6) [noun] Someone who receives a gift from a donor. DONGA (7) [noun] A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. | [noun] A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. DONGS (7) [noun] The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ | [noun] A penis. | [noun] (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. DONNA (6) [noun] A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy. DONNE (6) DONOR (6) [noun] One who makes a donation. | [noun] A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor. DONSY (9) DONUT (6) [noun] A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream. | [noun] Anything in the shape of a torus. | [noun] (automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid. DOOLY (9) DOOMS (8) [noun] Destiny, especially terrible. | [noun] An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable. | [noun] A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair. DOOMY (11) [adjective] Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic DOORS (6) [noun] A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. | [noun] Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. | [noun] (immigration) An entry point. DOOZY (18) [noun] Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense. | [adjective] Of high quality; remarkable; excellent. | [adjective] Sporty, ostentatious, flashy. DOPAS (8) DOPED (9) [verb] To affect with drugs. | [verb] To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). | [verb] To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). DOPER (8) DOPES (8) [noun] Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface. | [noun] An absorbent material used to hold a liquid. | [noun] Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc. DOPEY (11) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DORKS (10) [noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. | [noun] (Midwest US) A penis; dork. | [noun] (Midwest US) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. DORKY (13) [adjective] Like a dork. DORMS (8) [noun] A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. | [noun] A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. | [noun] A dormitory town. DORMY (11) [adjective] In match play, leading the match by the same number of holes as remain to be played. DORPS (8) [noun] A village or small town; a town considered provincial. DORRS (6) DORSA (6) [noun] The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. | [noun] The top of the foot or the back of the hand. | [noun] The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal. DORTY (9) DOSED (7) DOSER (6) DOSES (6) DOTAL (6) DOTED (7) [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. | [verb] To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. | [adjective] Stupid; foolish DOTER (6) DOTES (6) [noun] A darling, a cutie. | [noun] An imbecile; a dotard. | [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. DOTTY (9) [adjective] Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile. | [adjective] Having an unsteady gait. | [noun] A shotgun. DOUBT (8) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DOUCE (8) [adjective] Sweet; nice; pleasant. | [adjective] Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober. DOUGH (10) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. | [verb] To make into dough. DOUMA (8) DOUMS (8) DOURA (6) DOUSE (6) [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [noun] A blow or stroke, especially to the face. DOVEN (9) DOVES (9) [noun] A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae. | [noun] A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. | [noun] Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. DOWDY (13) [noun] A plain or shabby person | [adjective] Plain and unfashionable in style or dress. | [adjective] Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby. DOWED (10) DOWEL (9) [noun] A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. | [noun] A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. | [noun] A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it. DOWER (9) [noun] The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate. | [noun] Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry. | [noun] That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. DOWIE (9) DOWNS (9) [noun] A negative aspect; a downer. | [noun] A grudge (on someone). | [noun] An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. DOWNY (12) [adjective] Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | [adjective] Sharp-witted, perceptive. | [noun] A blanket filled with down; a duvet. DOWRY (12) [noun] Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. | [noun] Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price. | [noun] Dower. DOWSE (9) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. | [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc. DOXIE (13) DOYEN (9) [noun] A commander in charge of ten men. | [noun] The senior, or eldest male member of a group. | [noun] A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement. DOYLY (12) DOZED (16) [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. | [verb] To bulldoze. DOZEN (15) [noun] A set of twelve. | [noun] (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many. | [noun] An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. DOZER (15) [noun] One who dozes. | [noun] A bulldozer. DOZES (15) [noun] A light, short sleep or nap. | [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. DRABS (8) DRAFF (12) [noun] Dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash or waste matter. DRAFT (9) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DRAGS (7) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. DRAIL (6) [noun] A hook with a lead shank. | [noun] The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook. | [noun] The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw. DRAIN (6) [noun] A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK) | [noun] An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods. | [noun] Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return. DRAKE (10) [noun] A male duck. | [noun] A mayfly used as fishing bait. | [noun] A dragon. DRAMA (8) [noun] A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue | [noun] Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) | [noun] Theatrical plays in general DRAMS (8) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. DRANK (10) [noun] Dextromethorphan | [noun] A drink, usually alcoholic | [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [noun] Wild oats, or darnel grass. DRAPE (8) [noun] A curtain; a drapery. | [noun] The way in which fabric falls or hangs. | [noun] A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square DRATS (6) DRAVE (9) DRAWL (9) [noun] A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots. | [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. DRAWN (9) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. DRAWS (9) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DRAYS (9) [noun] A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads. | [noun] A kind of sledge or sled. | [noun] A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree. DREAD (7) [noun] Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. | [noun] Reverential or respectful fear; awe. | [noun] Somebody or something dreaded. DREAM (8) [noun] Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. | [noun] A hope or wish. | [noun] A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy. DREAR (6) [adjective] Dreary. | [noun] Gloom; sadness. DRECK (12) [noun] Trash; worthless merchandise. DREED (7) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DREES (6) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DREGS (7) [noun] (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. | [noun] (the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something. DREKS (10) DRESS (6) [noun] An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist. | [noun] Apparel, clothing. | [noun] The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. DREST (6) DRIBS (8) DRIED (7) [adjective] Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying. | [adjective] Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying. | [adjective] Sold raw and unprocessed. DRIER (6) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. | [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. DRIES (6) [noun] The process by which something is dried. | [noun] A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). | [noun] (with "the") The dry season. DRIFT (9) [noun] (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. | [noun] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. | [noun] A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side. DRILL (6) [noun] A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. | [noun] The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit. | [noun] An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence. | [noun] An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. | [noun] A small trickling stream; a rill. | [verb] To entice or allure; to decoy; with on. | [noun] An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face. | [noun] A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave. DRILY (9) [adverb] In a dry manner DRINK (10) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. | [noun] A beverage. DRIPS (8) [noun] A drop of a liquid. | [noun] A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. | [noun] An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. DRIPT (8) DRIVE (9) [noun] Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | [noun] Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | [noun] An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc. DROIT (6) DROLL (6) [noun] A funny person; a buffoon, a wag. | [verb] To jest, to joke. | [adjective] Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish. DRONE (6) [noun] A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee. | [noun] Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler. | [noun] One who performs menial or tedious work. | [noun] A low-pitched hum or buzz. DROOL (6) [noun] Saliva trickling from the mouth. | [noun] Stupid talk. | [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. DROOP (8) [noun] Something which is limp or sagging | [noun] A condition or posture of drooping | [verb] To hang downward; to sag. DROPS (8) [noun] A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape via surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. | [noun] A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything. | [noun] (now especially with "the") Alcoholic spirits in general. DROPT (8) DROSS (6) [noun] Waste or impure matter. | [noun] Residue that forms on the surface of a metal from oxidation. | [noun] The impurities in metal. DROUK (10) DROVE (9) [noun] A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively). | [noun] (collective) A group of hares. | [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. DROWN (9) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DRUBS (8) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DRUGS (7) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. DRUID (7) [noun] One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. DRUMS (8) [noun] A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone. | [noun] Any similar hollow, cylindrical object. | [noun] A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage. DRUNK (10) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRUPE (8) [noun] A stone fruit. DRUSE (6) [noun] An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. | [noun] An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. | [noun] A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye. DRYAD (10) [noun] In Greek myth, a female tree spirit. DRYER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. | [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. DRYLY (12) [adverb] In a dry manner. DUADS (7) [noun] A pair or couple. | [noun] Dwadasama. | [noun] An unordered pair. DUALS (6) [noun] Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. | [noun] Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. | [noun] (grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number. DUCAL (8) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold. DUCAT (8) [noun] A gold coin minted by various European nations. | [noun] A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general. | [noun] A ticket. DUCES (8) [noun] The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline. | [noun] A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion. | [noun] The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes. DUCHY (14) [noun] A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess. (A grand duchy may be a self-governing state. A simple duchy tends to be a part of a larger kingdom or empire.) DUCKS (12) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [noun] An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. DUCKY (15) [noun] A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck | [noun] An affectionate pet name. | [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a duck. DUCTS (8) [noun] A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another. | [noun] An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs. | [noun] Guidance; direction. DUDDY (11) DUDED (8) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUDES (7) [noun] A man, generally a younger man. | [noun] (used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning him or offering him advice. | [noun] An inexperienced cowboy. DUELS (6) [noun] Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor. | [noun] Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat) | [noun] Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas. DUETS (6) [noun] A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). | [noun] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo. | [noun] A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. DUFFS (12) [verb] To disguise something to make it look new. | [verb] To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle. | [verb] (with "up") To beat up. DUITS (6) DUKED (11) DUKES (10) [noun] The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess). | [noun] The sovereign of a small state. | [noun] A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom. DULIA (6) [noun] The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God. DULLS (6) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULLY (9) [adverb] In a dull manner; without liveliness; without lustre. DULSE (6) [noun] A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. DUMAS (8) [noun] A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament). | [noun] A drink mixing wine and vodka. DUMBS (10) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMKA (12) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMKY (15) [noun] A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine. | [noun] An individual composition in this genre. DUMMY (13) [noun] A silent person; a person who does not talk. | [noun] An unintelligent person. | [noun] A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. DUMPS (10) [noun] A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. | [noun] A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. | [noun] That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. DUMPY (13) [noun] A short, stout person or animal, especially one of a breed of very short-legged chickens. | [noun] A small bottle of beer. | [adjective] Short and thick; stout or stocky DUNAM (8) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUNCE (8) [noun] An unintelligent person. DUNCH (11) DUNES (6) [noun] A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind. DUNGS (7) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. DUNGY (10) DUNKS (10) DUNTS (6) [noun] A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. DUOMI (8) DUOMO (8) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DUPED (9) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DUPER (8) [noun] A person who dupes another DUPES (8) [noun] A person who has been deceived. | [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [noun] A duplicate of a photographic image. DUPLE (8) [adjective] Double. | [adjective] Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure. | [adjective] Having two beats in each foot. DURAL (6) DURAS (6) DURED (7) DURES (6) DURNS (6) [noun] A secret; secrecy. | [noun] A secret place; hiding. | [noun] An obscure language. DUROC (8) [noun] A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America. DUROS (6) DURRA (6) [noun] A kind of millet, a variety of sorghum; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor). DURRS (6) DURST (6) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DURUM (8) [noun] Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread. DUSKS (10) [noun] A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight. | [noun] A darkish colour. DUSKY (13) [noun] A dusky shark. | [noun] A dusky dolphin. | [noun] A dusky grouse. DUSTS (6) [noun] Fine particles | [noun] The act of cleaning by dusting. | [noun] The earth, as the resting place of the dead. DUSTY (9) [adjective] Covered with dust. | [adjective] Powdery and resembling dust. | [adjective] Grey in parts. DUTCH (11) [noun] Wife | [verb] To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor. DUVET (9) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. DWARF (12) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DWEEB (11) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. DWELL (9) [noun] A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. | [noun] A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. | [noun] A planned delay in a timed control program. DWELT (9) [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). | [verb] To be in a given state. DWINE (9) DYADS (10) [noun] A set of two elements treated as one; a pair. | [noun] Any set of two different pitch classes. | [noun] A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation. DYERS (9) [noun] One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. DYING (10) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. DYKED (14) [adjective] Containing a dyke (ditch) DYKES (13) [noun] (usually derogatory) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior. DYKEY (16) [adjective] Of a woman, whether actually lesbian or not, having stereotypically lesbian characteristics; that looks like a dyke. DYNEL (9) DYNES (9) [noun] A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.

DABBED (12) [verb] To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. | [verb] To apply a substance in this way. | [verb] To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. DABBER (11) [noun] A thing or person that dabs. | [noun] A cushioned pad used for applying ink. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DABBLE (11) [noun] A spattering or sprinkling of a liquid. | [noun] An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc. | [noun] An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DACHAS (12) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DACKER (13) DACOIT (9) [noun] A bandit or armed robber, especially in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and the surrounding region. | [verb] To commit armed robbery. DACTYL (12) [noun] A poetical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. DADDLE (9) DADOED (9) DADOES (8) DAEDAL (8) DAEMON (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. | [noun] A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. DAFFED (14) DAFTER (10) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. | [noun] One’s female offspring. DAFTLY (13) DAGGAS (9) DAGGER (9) [noun] A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade. | [noun] The text character †; the obelus. | [noun] A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win | [noun] A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame. DAGGLE (9) DAGOBA (10) DAGOES (8) [noun] A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent. | [noun] A person of Italian descent. DAHLIA (10) [noun] Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico. DAHOON (10) DAIKER (11) DAIKON (11) [noun] An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper. | [noun] Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish. DAIMEN (9) DAIMIO (9) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAIMON (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DAIMYO (12) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAINTY (10) [noun] A delicacy (in taste). | [noun] Esteem, honour. | [noun] (Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, typically homemade, served at a social event (usually plural). DAISES (7) [noun] A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. | [noun] A bench, a settle, a pew. | [noun] An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. DAKOIT (11) DALASI (7) [noun] The currency of the Gambia, divided into 100 bututs. DALEDH (11) DALETH (10) DALLES (7) DALTON (7) [noun] The atomic mass unit DAMAGE (10) [noun] Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact. | [noun] Cost or expense. | [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. DAMANS (9) DAMARS (9) DAMASK (13) [noun] An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus. | [noun] Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour. | [noun] A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings. DAMMAR (11) [noun] A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis. | [noun] A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae family) and Symplocos (Symplocaceae family), used in varnishes and inks | [noun] Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family) and Hopea (Dipterocarpaceae family), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. DAMMED (12) [verb] To block the flow of water. DAMMER (11) DAMNED (10) [verb] To condemn to hell. | [verb] To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. | [verb] To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. DAMNER (9) DAMPED (12) [verb] To dampen; to make moderately wet | [verb] To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull. | [verb] To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). DAMPEN (11) [verb] To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet. | [verb] To become damp or moist. | [verb] To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. DAMPER (11) [adjective] In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist. | [adjective] Despondent; dispirited, downcast. | [adjective] Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale. DAMPLY (14) DAMSEL (9) [noun] A young woman (of noble birth). | [noun] A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience). | [noun] A young woman who is not married. DAMSON (9) [noun] A subspecies of plum tree, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia. | [noun] The edible fruit of this tree. | [adjective] The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple. DANCED (10) [verb] To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music. | [verb] To leap or move lightly and rapidly. | [verb] To perform the steps to. DANCER (9) [noun] A person who dances, usually as a job or profession. | [noun] A stripper. DANCES (9) [noun] A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. | [noun] A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. | [noun] A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister. DANDER (8) [noun] Dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp. | [noun] Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals. | [noun] Allergen particles that accumulate on and may be shed from the skin and fur of domestic animals, especially from household pets such as cats and dogs. | [noun] A cinder; (in the plural) the refuse of a furnace | [verb] To wander about. DANDLE (8) [verb] To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. | [verb] To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. | [verb] To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. DANGED (9) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. | [adjective] Damned; accursed; objectionable DANGER (8) [noun] Exposure to likely harm; peril. | [noun] An instance or cause of likely harm. | [noun] Mischief. DANGLE (8) [noun] An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. | [noun] The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. | [noun] A dangling ornament or decoration. DANIOS (7) [noun] (chiefly in combination) Any of various fish of the genera Danio and Devario. DANISH (10) [noun] Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese. DANKER (11) [adjective] Dark, damp and humid. | [adjective] (of marijuana) Highly potent. | [adjective] (often ironic) Great, awesome. DANKLY (14) DAPHNE (12) [noun] Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals. DAPPED (12) [verb] To greet with a dap. DAPPER (11) [adjective] Neat, trim. | [adjective] Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy. | [adjective] Quick; little and active. DAPPLE (11) [noun] A mottled marking, usually in clusters. | [noun] An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat. | [verb] To mark or become marked with mottling or spots. DARERS (7) DARICS (9) DARING (8) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DARKED (12) DARKEN (11) [verb] To make dark or darker by reducing light. | [verb] To become dark or darker (having less light). | [verb] To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud). DARKER (11) [adjective] Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. | [adjective] (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light. | [adjective] Hidden, secret, obscure. DARKEY (14) DARKIE (11) [noun] A person with dark skin. | [noun] A dark lantern. DARKLE (11) DARKLY (14) [adverb] With a dark appearance. | [adverb] Faintly seen in the dark. | [adverb] In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly. DARNED (8) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [verb] To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric. | [adjective] A minced oath for damned. DARNEL (7) [noun] A species of ryegrass, Lolium temulentum, often found in wheat fields and often host to a fungus intoxicating to humans and animals. | [noun] Various species of Lolium, especially as a weed in wheat fields. DARNER (7) [noun] One who darns. | [noun] Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a hawker. DARTED (8) [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. | [verb] To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot | [verb] To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart DARTER (7) [noun] One who darts, or who throws darts; that which darts. | [noun] Any member of the family Anhingidae, waterbirds with long necks. | [noun] Any of various darting freshwater fish of the family Percidae, that are usually small and brightly coloured and are native to North America. DARTLE (7) DASHED (11) [verb] To run quickly or for a short distance. | [verb] To leave or depart. | [verb] To destroy by striking (against). DASHER (10) [noun] A person who dashes; a fast runner. | [noun] That which dashes or agitates. | [noun] A dashboard or splashboard. DASHES (10) [noun] Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar). | [noun] (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code. | [noun] A short run, flight. DASHIS (10) DASSIE (7) [noun] A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax. DATARY (10) DATCHA (12) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DATERS (7) [noun] One who dates. | [noun] A date-stamping device. DATING (8) [verb] To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. | [verb] To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. | [verb] To determine the age of something. DATIVE (10) [noun] (grammar) The dative case. | [adjective] (grammar) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. | [adjective] In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege. DATTOS (7) DATUMS (9) DATURA (7) [noun] A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. DAUBED (10) [verb] To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. | [verb] To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. | [verb] To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. DAUBER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter. | [noun] (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DAUBES (9) [noun] A stew of braised meat, usually beef. DAUBRY (12) DAUNTS (7) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. DAUTED (8) DAUTIE (7) DAVENS (10) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAVIES (10) DAVITS (10) [noun] A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. | [noun] A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. DAWDLE (11) [noun] A dawdler. | [noun] A slow walk, journey. | [noun] An easily accomplished task; a doddle. DAWING (11) DAWNED (11) [verb] To begin to brighten with daylight. | [verb] To start to appear or be realized. | [verb] To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. DAWTED (11) DAWTIE (10) DAYBED (13) [noun] A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night. | [noun] A long chair for reclining. DAYFLY (16) DAYLIT (10) DAZING (17) [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DAZZLE (25) [noun] A light of dazzling brilliancy. | [noun] Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly. | [noun] A herd of zebra. DEACON (9) [noun] (Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6). | [noun] (Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work. | [noun] Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor. DEADEN (8) [verb] To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle. | [verb] To become less lively; to diminish (by itself). | [verb] To make soundproof. DEADER (8) [adjective] No longer living. | [adjective] Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. | [adjective] (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored. DEADLY (11) [adjective] Subject to death; mortal. | [adjective] Causing death; lethal. | [adjective] Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. DEAFEN (10) [verb] To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently. | [verb] To make soundproof. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To stun, as with noise. DEAFER (10) [adjective] Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear. | [adjective] Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless. | [adjective] Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. DEAFLY (13) DEAIRS (7) DEALER (7) [noun] One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman. | [noun] A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs. | [noun] A particular type of stock broker or trader. DEANED (8) DEARER (7) [adjective] High in price; expensive. | [adjective] Loved; lovable. | [adjective] Loving, affectionate, heartfelt DEARIE (7) [noun] (chiefly as a term of address) A person who is dear; sweetie. DEARLY (10) [adverb] In a dear or precious manner. | [adverb] In a dear or expensive manner. | [adverb] At great expense. DEARTH (10) [noun] A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. | [noun] (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply. | [noun] Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly. DEASIL (7) [noun] Clockwise motion. | [adverb] Clockwise. DEATHS (10) [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] (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics. | [noun] (the death) The collapse or end of something. DEATHY (13) DEAVED (11) DEAVES (10) DEBARK (13) [verb] To unload goods from an aircraft or ship. | [verb] To disembark. | [verb] To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled. | [verb] To devocalize (a dog). DEBARS (9) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] 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. DEBASE (9) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBATE (9) [noun] An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision. | [noun] An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views. | [noun] Discussion of opposing views. DEBEAK (13) [verb] To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms. DEBITS (9) [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. DEBONE (9) [verb] To remove the bones from. DEBRIS (9) [noun] Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. | [noun] Litter and discarded refuse. | [noun] The ruins of a broken-down structure. DEBTOR (9) [noun] A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt | [noun] One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding. DEBUGS (10) [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). | [verb] To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice. DEBUNK (13) [verb] To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something. DEBUTS (9) [noun] A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area. | [noun] 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. DEBYES (12) [noun] 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. DECADE (10) [noun] A group, set, or series of ten , particularly: | [noun] A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance. | [noun] The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1. DECAFS (12) DECALS (9) [noun] A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily. | [noun] A decorative sticker. DECAMP (13) [verb] To break up camp and move on. | [verb] To disappear suddenly and secretly. DECANE (9) [noun] Any of the seventy-five isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having the chemical formula C10H22 DECANT (9) [verb] To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. | [verb] To pour from one vessel into another. | [verb] To flow. DECARE (9) DECAYS (12) [verb] To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. | [verb] (of organic material) To rot, to go bad. | [verb] (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons. DECEIT (9) [noun] An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] An act of deceiving someone. | [noun] The state of being deceitful or deceptive. DECENT (9) [adjective] Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances. | [adjective] (of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness. | [adjective] Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen. DECERN (9) DECIDE (10) [verb] To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle | [verb] To make a judgment, especially after deliberation | [verb] To cause someone to come to a decision DECILE (9) [noun] Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency. | [noun] Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided. | [noun] An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac. DECKED (14) [verb] To furnish with a deck, as a vessel. | [verb] To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch. | [verb] To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result. DECKEL (13) DECKER (13) [noun] One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer. | [noun] (used in conjunction with a number) Something having numerous levels. DECKLE (13) [noun] (paper-making) A frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper. | [noun] A membrane covering the outermost side of a brisket of beef, where it was attached to the rib cage | [noun] (Jewish cuisine) The fattier, smaller point-cut portion of a brisket of beef, being the superficial pectoral muscle. DECLAW (12) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. DECOCT (11) [verb] To make an infusion. | [verb] To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down. | [verb] To heat as if by boiling. DECODE (10) [noun] A product of decoding | [noun] Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols | [verb] To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. DECORS (9) [noun] The style of decoration of a room or building. | [noun] A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop. DECOYS (12) [noun] A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger. | [noun] A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game. DECREE (9) [noun] An edict or law. | [noun] The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity. | [noun] The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate. DECURY (12) DEDANS (8) [noun] (court tennis) A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators. DEDUCE (10) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEDUCT (10) [verb] To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount. DEEDED (9) [verb] To transfer real property by deed. DEEJAY (17) [noun] A disc jockey. | [verb] To perform as a disc jockey. DEEMED (10) [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. | [verb] To dispense (justice); to administer (law). DEEPEN (9) [verb] To make deep or deeper | [verb] To make darker or more intense; to darken | [verb] To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree DEEPER (9) [adjective] (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards. | [adjective] (intellectual, social) Complex, involved. | [adjective] (sound, voice) Low in pitch. DEEPLY (12) [adverb] At depth, in a deep way. | [adverb] To a deep extent. | [adverb] Profoundly. DEEWAN (10) DEFACE (12) [verb] To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | [verb] To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | [verb] (flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. DEFAME (12) [noun] Disgrace, dishonour. | [noun] Defamation; slander, libel. | [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. DEFANG (11) [verb] To remove the fangs from (something). | [verb] To render harmless. DEFATS (10) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents DEFEAT (10) [verb] To overcome in battle or contest. | [verb] To reduce, to nothing, the strength of. | [verb] To nullify | [noun] The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss. DEFECT (12) [noun] A fault or malfunction. | [noun] The quantity or amount by which anything falls short. | [noun] A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient. DEFEND (11) [verb] To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. | [verb] To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. | [verb] To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused). DEFERS (10) [verb] To delay or postpone | [verb] 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). | [verb] To delay, to wait. DEFIED (11) [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. | [verb] To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations. DEFIER (10) DEFIES (10) [noun] A challenge. | [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. DEFILE (10) [verb] To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. | [verb] To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate | [verb] To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape | [noun] A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains. DEFINE (10) [noun] A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs. | [verb] To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. | [verb] To settle, decide (an argument etc.) DEFLEA (10) DEFOAM (12) DEFOGS (11) DEFORM (12) [verb] To change the form of, usually negatively; to give (something) an unusual or abnormal shape. | [verb] To change the looks of, usually negatively; to give something an unusual or abnormal appearance. | [verb] To mar the character of. DEFRAY (13) [verb] To spend (money). | [verb] To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something). | [verb] To pay for (something). DEFTER (10) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. | [noun] A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire. DEFTLY (13) [adverb] In a deft manner; quickly and neatly in action. DEFUND (11) [verb] To cancel funding for. DEFUSE (10) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUZE (19) DEGAGE (9) DEGAME (10) DEGAMI (10) DEGERM (10) DEGREE (8) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DEGUMS (10) DEGUST (8) [verb] To taste carefully to fully appreciate it. | [verb] To savour DEHORN (10) [verb] To remove the horns from. DEHORT (10) [verb] To dissuade. DEICED (10) DEICER (9) DEICES (9) DEIFIC (12) [adjective] Divine, of or relating to a deity or deities DEIGNS (8) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DEISMS (9) DEISTS (7) DEIXIS (14) [noun] The use of a word, such as a pronoun, to refer to something that must be identified from the wider context; a word used in such a way. DEJECT (16) [verb] Make sad or dispirited. | [verb] To cast down. DEKARE (11) DEKING (12) [verb] To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery. | [verb] To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports. DEKKOS (15) [noun] A look; a glance. DELATE (7) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DELAYS (10) [noun] A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. | [noun] An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. | [verb] To put off until a later time; to defer. DELEAD (8) DELETE (7) [noun] A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. | [noun] A deletion. | [noun] (recorded entertainment industry) A remainder of a music or video release. DELFTS (10) DELICT (9) [noun] (Scottish law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. | [noun] The branch of law dealing in delicts. DELIME (9) DELIST (7) [verb] To remove from an official register or list. DELTAS (7) [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] The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet. DELTIC (9) DELUDE (8) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. DELUGE (8) [noun] A great flood or rain. | [noun] An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. | [noun] (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System. DELUXE (14) [adjective] Very fine in quality or luxurious. DELVED (11) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DELVER (10) DELVES (10) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DEMAND (10) [noun] The desire to purchase goods and services. | [noun] The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. | [noun] A forceful claim for something. DEMARK (13) [verb] To demarcate. DEMAST (9) DEMEAN (9) [verb] To debase; to lower; to degrade. | [verb] To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. | [verb] To mortify. | [noun] Management; treatment. | [noun] Demesne. | [verb] To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). DEMENT (9) [noun] An insane person, or one afflicted with dementia | [verb] To drive mad; to craze | [adjective] Insane, demented DEMIES (9) DEMISE (9) [noun] The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. | [noun] Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. | [noun] Death. DEMITS (9) [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. | [verb] To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge. DEMOBS (11) [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DEMODE (10) DEMONS (9) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DEMOTE (9) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DEMURE (9) [verb] To look demurely. | [adjective] (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious. | [adjective] Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. DEMURS (9) [noun] Stop; pause; hesitation as to proceeding; suspense of decision or action; scruple. | [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] 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. DENARY (10) [noun] An ancient coin, the denarius. | [adjective] Containing ten parts. | [adjective] Based on the number ten. DENGUE (8) [noun] An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. DENIAL (7) [noun] The negation in logic. | [noun] A refusal to comply with a request. | [noun] An assertion of untruth. DENIED (8) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DENIER (7) [noun] An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou. | [noun] A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes. | [noun] Person who denies something. DENIES (7) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DENIMS (9) [noun] Jeans made of denim. DENNED (8) [verb] To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den. DENOTE (7) [verb] To indicate; to mark. | [verb] To make overt. | [verb] To refer to literally; to convey as meaning. DENSER (7) [adjective] Having relatively high density. | [adjective] Compact; crowded together. | [adjective] Thick; difficult to penetrate. DENTAL (7) [noun] Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth. | [noun] A dental sound. | [adjective] Of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care. DENTED (8) [verb] To impact something, producing a dent. | [verb] To develop a dent or dents. DENTIL (7) [noun] Any one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting like teeth from a molding or beneath a cornice. DENTIN (7) [noun] The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth DENUDE (8) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. DEODAR (8) [noun] Cedrus deodara, a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas. DEPART (9) [noun] Division; separation, as of compound substances. | [noun] A going away; departure. | [verb] To leave. DEPEND (10) [verb] (followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on. | [verb] (followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely. | [verb] To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. DEPERM (11) DEPICT (11) [verb] To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. | [adjective] Depicted. DEPLOY (12) [noun] Deployment | [verb] To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use. | [verb] To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use. DEPONE (9) [verb] To testify, especially in the form of a deposition. | [verb] To take the deposition of; to depose. | [verb] To lay, as a stake; to wager. DEPORT (9) [verb] To comport (oneself); to behave. | [verb] To evict, especially from a country. DEPOSE (9) [verb] To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. | [verb] To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. | [verb] To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition DEPOTS (9) [noun] A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse. | [noun] A bus station or railway station. | [noun] A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units. DEPTHS (12) [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] The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. DEPUTE (9) [noun] Deputy | [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate DEPUTY (12) [noun] One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office | [noun] A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners. | [noun] (France): A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif DERAIL (7) [noun] A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail. | [noun] An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic. | [verb] To cause to come off the tracks. DERATE (7) [verb] To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. DERATS (7) DERAYS (10) DERIDE (8) [verb] To harshly mock; ridicule. DERIVE (10) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DERMAL (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to skin or integument (or other forms of tissue) DERMAS (9) DERMIC (11) [adjective] Of or relating to the dermis or skin. DERMIS (9) [noun] The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis. DERRIS (7) [noun] A climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific Islands, Derris elliptica, whose roots are a source of rotenone. DESALT (7) [verb] To remove salt from; to desalinate. DESAND (8) DESCRY (12) [verb] To see. | [verb] To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect. | [verb] To discover: to disclose; to reveal. DESERT (7) [noun] (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward | [noun] A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland. | [noun] Any barren place or situation. | [verb] To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake. DESIGN (8) [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. DESIRE (7) [noun] Someone or something wished for. | [noun] Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. | [noun] The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something. DESIST (7) [verb] To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from). DESMAN (9) [noun] Either of two species, Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus, of aquatic or semi-aquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe. DESMID (10) [noun] Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales. DESORB (9) [verb] (of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed DESOXY (17) DESPOT (9) [noun] A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. | [noun] A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries) DETACH (12) [verb] To take apart from; to take off. | [verb] To separate for a special object or use. | [verb] To come off something. DETAIL (7) [noun] Something small enough to escape casual notice. | [noun] A profusion of details. | [noun] The small things that can escape casual notice. DETAIN (7) [verb] To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. | [verb] To put under custody. | [verb] To keep back or from; to withhold. DETECT (9) [verb] To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing | [adjective] Detected. DETENT (7) [noun] That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. | [verb] The action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement. DETERS (7) [verb] To prevent something from happening. | [verb] To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. | [verb] To distract someone from something. DETEST (7) [verb] To dislike intensely; to loathe. | [verb] To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. DETICK (13) DETOUR (7) [noun] A diversion or deviation from one's original route. | [verb] To make a detour. | [verb] To direct or send on a detour. DEUCED (10) [adjective] Damned. | [adverb] (degree) Damned. DEUCES (9) [noun] A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. | [noun] A side of a die with two spots. | [noun] A cast of dice totalling two. DEVEIN (10) [verb] To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp). DEVELS (10) DEVEST (10) DEVICE (12) [noun] Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. | [noun] A peripheral device; an item of hardware. | [noun] A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. DEVILS (10) [noun] An evil creature. | [noun] (with article) The chief devil; Satan. | [noun] 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. DEVISE (10) [noun] The act of leaving real property in a will. | [noun] Such a will, or a clause in such a will. | [noun] The real property left in such a will. DEVOID (11) [verb] To empty out; to remove. | [adjective] Empty; having none of; completely without DEVOIR (10) [noun] (often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do. DEVONS (10) [noun] (Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage. DEVOTE (10) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOUR (10) [verb] To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | [verb] To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | [verb] To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. DEVOUT (10) [noun] A devotee. | [noun] A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion. | [adjective] Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious. DEWANS (10) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DEWARS (10) [noun] A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment. DEWIER (10) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DEWILY (13) DEWING (11) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. | [noun] A contributor to corrosion? DEWLAP (12) [noun] The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal. | [noun] The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person. DEWOOL (10) DEWORM (12) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DEXIES (14) DEXTER (14) [noun] The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer. | [noun] The right hand. | [adjective] Right; on the right-hand side. DEXTRO (14) [adjective] Dextrorotatory. DEZINC (18) DHARMA (12) [noun] The natural order of the universe; natural law, cosmic order. | [noun] One's obligation in respect to one's position in society, one's duty. | [noun] The teachings of the Buddha as one's personal path to enlightenment. DHARNA (10) [noun] A nonviolent sit-in protest. | [noun] (specifically) A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor. DHOBIS (12) [noun] A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman, in India and Pakistan. DHOLES (10) [noun] An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus. DHOOLY (13) DHOORA (10) DHOOTI (10) DHOTIS (10) [noun] A long loincloth worn by Hindu men in India. | [noun] The cotton fabric used for such loincloths. DHURNA (10) DHUTIS (10) DIACID (10) DIADEM (10) [noun] An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty. | [noun] A crown. | [noun] Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown. DIALED (8) [verb] To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. | [verb] To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. | [verb] To use a dial or a telephone. DIALER (7) [noun] A person or device that dials, as using a telephone. DIALOG (8) [noun] A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. | [noun] In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters. | [noun] A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation. DIAMIN (9) DIAPER (9) [noun] A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread. | [noun] A towel or napkin made from such fabric. | [noun] An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy. DIAPIR (9) [noun] An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden. DIATOM (9) [noun] Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta. DIAZIN (16) DIBBED (12) [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat. | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DIBBER (11) [noun] A tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc. Also known as a dibble or dib. | [noun] One who dibs. DIBBLE (11) [noun] A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds. | [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. | [noun] (originally Manchester) A police officer. DIBBUK (15) DICAST (9) DICERS (9) DICIER (9) [adjective] Fraught with danger. | [adjective] Of uncertain, risky outcome. | [adjective] Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. DICING (10) [verb] To play dice. | [verb] To cut into small cubes. | [verb] To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. DICKED (14) [verb] To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up). | [verb] (of a man) To have sexual intercourse with. | [adjective] Having a specified kind of penis. DICKER (13) [noun] A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins. | [noun] A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares. | [verb] To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale. DICKEY (16) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. DICKIE (13) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. DICOTS (9) [noun] A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon. DICTUM (11) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DIDACT (10) DIDDLE (9) [noun] In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed. | [noun] The penis. | [verb] To cheat; to swindle. DIDDLY (12) [noun] A small amount of no worth. | [interjection] A written representation of a trill sound. | [noun] (sometimes childish) penis DIDIES (8) DIDOES (8) [noun] A fuss, a row. | [noun] A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. DIEING (8) DIENES (7) [noun] An organic compound, especially a hydrocarbon, containing two double bonds. DIESEL (7) [noun] A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed. | [noun] A vehicle powered by a diesel engine. | [noun] A rider who has an even energy output, without bursts of speed. DIESES (7) [noun] Any of several intervals, smaller than a tone, in ancient Greek music. | [noun] The double dagger sign (‡). DIESIS (7) [noun] Any of several intervals, smaller than a tone, in ancient Greek music. | [noun] The double dagger sign (‡). DIETED (8) [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [verb] To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health. | [verb] To eat; to take one's meals. DIETER (7) DIFFER (13) [verb] Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct. | [verb] (people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree. | [verb] To be separated in quantity. DIGAMY (13) DIGEST (8) [verb] To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. | [verb] To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. | [verb] To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. | [noun] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles DIGGED (10) DIGGER (9) [noun] A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator. | [noun] A tool for digging. | [noun] A spade (playing card). DIGHTS (11) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGITS (8) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DIGLOT (8) DIKDIK (16) DIKERS (11) DIKING (12) [noun] The process of building a dike. DIKTAT (11) [noun] A harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor | [noun] A dogmatic decree, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent DILATE (7) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DILDOE (8) DILDOS (8) [noun] An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use. | [noun] An idiot, a bore. | [noun] A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii). DILLED (8) DILUTE (7) [noun] An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. | [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. DIMERS (9) [noun] A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge. DIMITY (12) [noun] A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares. DIMMED (12) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DIMMER (11) [adjective] Not bright or colorful. | [adjective] Not smart or intelligent. | [adjective] Indistinct, hazy or unclear. DIMOUT (9) DIMPLE (11) [noun] A small depression or indentation in a surface. | [noun] Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth. | [verb] To create a dimple in. DIMPLY (14) DIMWIT (12) [noun] A person who is deficient in intelligence. DINARS (7) [noun] The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia and Tunisia. | [noun] An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight. DINDLE (8) DINERO (7) DINERS (7) [noun] One who dines. | [noun] A dining car in a railroad train. | [noun] A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades. DINGED (9) [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash; to throw violently. | [verb] To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking. DINGER (8) [noun] A bell or chime. | [noun] The suspended clapper of a bell. | [noun] One who rings a bell. DINGES (8) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINGEY (11) DINGHY (14) [noun] A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. | [noun] An inflatable rubber life raft. | [verb] To travel by dinghy. DINGLE (8) [noun] A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley. DINGUS (8) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINING (8) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DINKED (12) [verb] To play a soft drop shot. | [verb] To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot. | [verb] To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar. DINKEY (14) DINKLY (14) DINKUM (13) [noun] Hard work. | [noun] Truth. | [adjective] Genuine, true, honest, on the level. DINNED (8) [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. | [verb] To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise. DINNER (7) [noun] A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea). | [noun] The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. | [noun] An evening meal. DINTED (8) [verb] To dent. DIOBOL (9) DIODES (8) [noun] An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier. DIOECY (12) DIOXAN (14) DIOXID (15) DIOXIN (14) [noun] Any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides. | [noun] The parent compound, dibenzo-p-dioxin, in which two benzene rings are connected vio two oxygen atoms; oxanthrene. | [noun] The unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms and two double bonds. DIPLEX (16) DIPLOE (9) DIPNET (9) [verb] To catch (fish) in a hand net. | [noun] A small net that is equipped with a handle and attached to a rim so that the net forms a pouch. This kind of net is used, eg, for trapping butterflies or individual fish. DIPODY (13) DIPOLE (9) [noun] Any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles) | [noun] Any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges | [noun] A dipole antenna DIPPED (12) [verb] To lower into a liquid. | [verb] To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. | [verb] (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly. DIPPER (11) [noun] One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid). | [noun] Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom. | [noun] A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop. DIPSAS (9) DIPSOS (9) [noun] A dipsomaniac; an alcoholic; a drunk. DIQUAT (16) [noun] A contact herbicide that produces desiccation and defoliation. DIRDUM (10) DIRECT (9) [verb] To manage, control, steer. | [verb] To aim (something) at (something else). | [verb] To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. DIRELY (10) DIREST (7) [adjective] Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | [adjective] Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | [adjective] Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal DIRGES (8) [noun] A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. | [noun] A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring. DIRHAM (12) [noun] A unit of currency used in the Arab world, currently the name of the currency of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. | [noun] A former small Turkish unit of weight, variously reckoned as 1.5–3.5 g (0.05–0.12 oz.). DIRKED (12) DIRLED (8) DIRNDL (8) [noun] A traditional Alpine women's dress having a tight bodice and full skirt DISARM (9) [noun] The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry. | [verb] To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. | [verb] To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous DISBAR (9) [verb] To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such. | [verb] To exclude (a person) from something. DISBUD (10) [verb] To remove buds from a plant in order to promote growth and health in the remaining buds. | [verb] To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns. DISCED (10) DISCOS (9) [noun] A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights. | [noun] (slightly obsolete) A nightclub where dancing takes place. DISCUS (9) [noun] A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport. | [noun] The athletics sport of discus throwing. | [noun] (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon) DISHED (11) [verb] To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food. | [verb] To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another. | [verb] To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish. DISHES (10) [noun] A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. | [noun] The contents of such a vessel. | [noun] (metonym) A specific type of prepared food. DISKED (12) DISMAL (9) [adjective] Disappointingly inadequate. | [adjective] Gloomy and bleak. | [adjective] Depressing. DISMAY (12) [noun] A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits | [noun] Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. | [verb] To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy DISMES (9) DISOWN (10) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DISPEL (9) [noun] An act or instance of dispelling. | [verb] To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering. | [verb] To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified. DISSED (8) [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. DISSES (7) [noun] An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect. | [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. | [noun] Dissertation. DISTAL (7) [adjective] Remote from the point of attachment or origin. | [adjective] Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw. | [adjective] Far or farther from the speaker. DISTIL (7) [verb] To subject to distillation. | [verb] To undergo or be produced by distillation. | [verb] To make by means of distillation, especially whisky. DISUSE (7) [noun] The state of not being used; neglect. | [verb] To cease the use of. | [verb] To disaccustom. DITHER (10) [noun] The state of being undecided. | [verb] To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold. | [verb] To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something. DITTOS (7) [noun] That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise. | [noun] A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator. | [noun] A copy; an imitation. DITZES (16) [noun] A scatterbrained person, especially a woman. DIURON (7) DIVANS (10) [noun] A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan). | [noun] The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice. | [noun] Any council or assembly. DIVERS (10) [noun] Someone who dives, especially as a sport. | [noun] Someone who works underwater; a frogman. | [noun] The loon (bird). | [adjective] Consisting of many different elements; various. DIVERT (10) [verb] To turn aside from a course. | [verb] To distract. | [verb] To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) DIVEST (10) [verb] To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | [verb] To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | [verb] To undress. DIVIDE (11) [noun] A thing that divides. | [noun] An act of dividing. | [noun] A distancing between two people or things. DIVINE (10) [noun] One skilled in divinity; a theologian. | [noun] A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. | [noun] (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. | [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. DIVING (11) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DIVOTS (10) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DIWANS (10) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DIXITS (14) DIZENS (16) DJEBEL (16) [noun] A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa). DJINNI (14) DJINNS (14) [noun] (Muslim demonology) A genie and descendant of the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form, equivalent to demons in Jewish demonology. DJINNY (17) DOABLE (9) [noun] Something that can be done; a possible or practical task. | [adjective] Possible to do; feasible. | [adjective] Worthy of sexual conquest. DOATED (8) DOBBER (11) DOBBIN (11) [noun] An old jaded horse. | [noun] Sea gravel mixed with sand. | [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. DOBIES (9) DOBLAS (9) DOBLON (9) DOBRAS (9) [noun] The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos. DOBSON (9) DOCENT (9) [noun] A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.) | [noun] A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc. | [adjective] Instructive; that teaches. DOCILE (9) [adjective] Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient. | [adjective] Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management. DOCKED (14) [verb] To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy. | [verb] To reduce (wages); to deduct from. | [verb] To cut off, bar, or destroy. DOCKER (13) [noun] One who performs docking, as of tails. | [noun] A dockworker. DOCKET (13) [noun] A summary; a brief digest. | [noun] A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register. | [noun] A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court. DOCTOR (9) [noun] A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK. | [noun] A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university. | [noun] A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals. DODDER (9) [verb] To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter. | [noun] Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. DODGED (10) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DODGEM (11) [noun] A bumper car in an amusement park. DODGER (9) [noun] Someone who dodges. | [noun] A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat. | [noun] An advertising leaflet; a flyer. DODGES (9) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DODOES (8) [noun] A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius. | [noun] A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt. DOFFED (14) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOFFER (13) DOGDOM (11) [noun] The state or essence of being a dog. DOGEAR (8) DOGEYS (11) DOGGED (10) [verb] To pursue with the intent to catch. | [verb] To follow in an annoying or harassing way. | [verb] To fasten a hatch securely. | [adjective] Stubbornly persevering, steadfast DOGGER (9) [noun] A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. | [noun] A participant in the sexual activity of dogging. | [noun] A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron. DOGGIE (9) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. DOGIES (8) [noun] A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. DOGLEG (9) [noun] A sharp bend in the fairway (before the hole) | [noun] A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards. | [noun] A sharp bend in a canyon or ravine. DOGMAS (10) [noun] An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it. | [noun] A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader. DOGNAP (10) [verb] To abduct (a dog). DOILED (8) DOINGS (8) [noun] A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it. DOITED (8) [adjective] Afflicted with weak-mindedness, usually caused by senility DOLING (8) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. | [noun] The act of one who doles. DOLLAR (7) [noun] Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $. | [noun] (by extension) Money generally. | [noun] A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more. DOLLED (8) DOLLOP (9) [noun] A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food. | [verb] To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops. | [verb] To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form. DOLMAN (9) [noun] A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks. | [noun] A short, close-fitting, heavily braided military jacket, usually worn under a pelisse, originally by hussars. | [noun] A woman's garment with wide capelike sleeves. DOLMAS (9) [noun] Any of a family of stuffed vegetable dishes. The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or grains, together with onion, herbs and spices. DOLMEN (9) [noun] A prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow. | [noun] More generally, any megalithic tomb, including passage graves and wedge tombs. DOLORS (7) DOLOUR (7) [noun] A painful grief or suffering. DOMAIN (9) [noun] A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization. | [noun] A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise. | [noun] A group of related items, topics, or subjects. DOMINE (9) DOMING (10) DOMINO (9) [noun] A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. | [noun] A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect. | [noun] A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face. DONATE (7) [verb] To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. DONEES (7) [noun] Someone who receives a gift from a donor. DONGAS (8) [noun] A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. | [noun] A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. DONJON (14) [noun] The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep. DONKEY (14) [noun] A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse | [noun] A stubborn person | [noun] A fool DONNAS (7) DONNED (8) [verb] (clothing) To put on, to dress in. DONNEE (7) DONORS (7) [noun] One who makes a donation. | [noun] A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor. DONSIE (7) DONUTS (7) [noun] A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream. | [noun] Anything in the shape of a torus. | [noun] (automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid. DONZEL (16) DOODAD (9) [noun] A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part. DOODLE (8) [noun] A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person. | [noun] A small mindless sketch, etc. | [noun] (sometimes childish) Penis. | [noun] Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog. DOOFUS (10) [noun] A person with poor judgment and taste. DOOLEE (7) DOOLIE (7) DOOMED (10) [verb] To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn. | [verb] To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of. | [verb] To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. DOOZER (16) DOOZIE (16) [noun] Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense. DOPANT (9) [noun] A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent DOPERS (9) DOPIER (9) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DOPING (10) [verb] To affect with drugs. | [verb] To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). | [verb] To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). DORADO (8) [noun] Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration. DORBUG (10) DORIES (7) [noun] A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers. | [noun] Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish. | [noun] A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand. DORMER (9) [noun] A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof | [noun] Dormer-window | [noun] A resident of a dormitory DORMIE (9) DORMIN (9) DORPER (9) DORSAD (8) DORSAL (7) [noun] A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc. | [adjective] With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate. | [adjective] (of a knife) Having only one sharp side. DORSEL (7) DORSER (7) DORSUM (9) [noun] The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants. | [noun] The top of the foot or the back of the hand. | [noun] The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal. DOSAGE (8) [noun] The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing. | [noun] The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine. | [noun] The measured amount so administered or added; the dose. DOSERS (7) DOSING (8) [noun] The administration of a dose DOSSAL (7) [noun] A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc. DOSSED (8) [verb] To avoid work, shirk, etc. | [verb] To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless DOSSEL (7) DOSSER (7) [noun] Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work. | [noun] A homeless and jobless person. | [noun] One who lodges in a doss-house. | [noun] A pannier or basket. DOSSES (7) [verb] To avoid work, shirk, etc. | [verb] To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless DOSSIL (7) DOTAGE (8) [noun] Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility. | [noun] Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree. | [noun] Foolish utterance(s); drivel. DOTARD (8) [noun] An old person with impaired intellect; one in his or her dotage. | [noun] One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness. DOTERS (7) DOTIER (7) DOTING (8) [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. | [verb] To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. | [noun] Excessive fondness; reverence. DOTTED (8) [verb] To cover with small spots (of some liquid). | [verb] To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to. | [verb] To mark by means of dots or small spots. DOTTEL (7) DOTTER (7) DOTTLE (7) [noun] A plug or tap of a vessel. | [noun] A small rounded lump or mass. | [noun] The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe. | [noun] A dotard. DOUBLE (9) [noun] Twice the number, amount, size, etc. | [noun] A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes | [noun] A drink with two portions of alcohol. DOUBLY (12) [adverb] (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; twice the severity or degree. | [adverb] In two ways | [adverb] With duplicity DOUBTS (9) [noun] Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty. | [noun] A point of uncertainty; a query. | [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. DOUCHE (12) [noun] A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation. | [noun] Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe. | [noun] A jet or spray of any liquid. DOUGHS (11) [noun] A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. | [noun] Money. DOUGHT (11) DOUGHY (14) [adjective] Having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as DOUMAS (9) DOURAH (10) DOURAS (7) DOURER (7) DOURLY (10) DOUSED (8) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOUSER (7) DOUSES (7) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOVENS (10) DOVISH (13) DOWELS (10) [noun] A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. | [noun] A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. | [noun] A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it. DOWERS (10) [noun] The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate. | [noun] Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry. | [noun] That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. DOWERY (13) DOWING (11) DOWNED (11) [verb] To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell. | [verb] To lower; to put (something) down. | [verb] To defeat; to overpower. DOWNER (10) [noun] A negative drug trip. | [noun] A drug that has depressant qualities. | [noun] Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy. DOWSED (11) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOWSER (10) DOWSES (10) [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. DOXIES (14) [noun] A dachshund | [noun] A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress. | [noun] A defined opinion. DOYENS (10) [noun] A commander in charge of ten men. | [noun] The senior, or eldest male member of a group. | [noun] A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement. DOYLEY (13) DOZENS (16) [noun] A set of twelve. | [noun] (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many. | [noun] An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight. DOZERS (16) [noun] One who dozes. | [noun] A bulldozer. DOZIER (16) [adjective] Quite sleepy or tired. | [adjective] Intellectually slow. | [adjective] Decaying, rotten, spongy. DOZILY (19) DOZING (17) [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. | [verb] To bulldoze. DRABLY (12) DRACHM (14) [noun] A small unit of weight, variously: | [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. DRAFFS (13) DRAFFY (16) DRAFTS (10) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DRAFTY (13) [adjective] Characterized by gusts of wind; windy. | [adjective] (of a building etc.) Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts). DRAGEE (8) [noun] A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc. DRAGGY (12) [adjective] Moving or developing very slowly; tending to drag on; dull. DRAGON (8) [noun] A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. | [noun] An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance: | [noun] (with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco. | [noun] A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person. DRAILS (7) [noun] A hook with a lead shank. | [noun] The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook. | [noun] The iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw. DRAINS (7) [noun] A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK) | [noun] An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods. | [noun] Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return. DRAKES (11) [noun] A male duck. | [noun] A mayfly used as fishing bait. | [noun] A dragon. DRAMAS (9) [noun] A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue | [noun] Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy) | [noun] Theatrical plays in general DRAPED (10) [verb] To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery | [verb] To spread over, cover. | [verb] To rail at; to banter. DRAPER (9) [noun] One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths. DRAPES (9) [noun] A curtain; a drapery. | [noun] The way in which fabric falls or hangs. | [noun] A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square DRAPEY (12) DRAWEE (10) [noun] The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque. DRAWER (10) [noun] An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. | [noun] A side panel containing supplementary content. | [noun] Agent noun of draw; one who draws. DRAWLS (10) [noun] A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots. | [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. DRAWLY (13) DRAYED (11) DREADS (8) [noun] A Rastafarian person. | [noun] Dreadlocks | [verb] To fear greatly. DREAMS (9) [noun] Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. | [noun] A hope or wish. | [noun] A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy. DREAMT (9) [verb] To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. | [verb] To hope, to wish. | [verb] To daydream. DREAMY (12) [adjective] As in a dream; resembling a dream. | [adjective] Sexy; handsome; attractive | [adjective] Having a pleasant or romantic atmosphere. DREARS (7) DREARY (10) [adjective] Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. | [adjective] Grievous, dire; appalling. DRECKS (13) DRECKY (16) [adjective] Trashy, worthless DREDGE (9) [noun] Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: | [noun] Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. | [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. | [noun] A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation. | [noun] A mixture of oats and barley. DREGGY (12) DREICH (12) [adjective] Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary. DREIDL (8) [noun] A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ, ג, ה, and ש or פ on each side, associated with and often used during Hanukkah. | [noun] A gambling game played using this top. DREIGH (11) DRENCH (12) [noun] A draught administered to an animal. | [noun] A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. | [verb] To soak, to make very wet. | [noun] A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book. DRESSY (10) [adjective] Elegant, smart or stylish. | [adjective] Fond of dressing up; keen on fashion. DRIEGH (11) DRIERS (7) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. DRIEST (7) [adjective] Free from or lacking moisture. | [adjective] Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk. | [adjective] Built without or lacking mortar. DRIFTS (10) [noun] (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved. | [noun] The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. | [noun] A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side. DRIFTY (13) DRILLS (7) [noun] A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. | [noun] The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit. | [noun] An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence. DRINKS (11) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRIPPY (14) [adjective] Dripping or tending to drip. | [adjective] Rainy or wet. | [adjective] Maudlin, tiresome or annoying; DRIVEL (10) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense | [noun] Saliva, drool | [noun] A fool; an idiot. | [noun] A servant; a drudge. DRIVEN (10) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. | [verb] To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. | [verb] To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force. DRIVER (10) [noun] One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. DRIVES (10) [noun] Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | [noun] Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | [noun] An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc. DROGUE (8) [noun] (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. | [noun] A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. | [noun] A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute. DROITS (7) DROLLS (7) [noun] A funny person; a buffoon, a wag. DROLLY (10) [adverb] In a droll, odd or humorous manner. DROMON (9) DRONED (8) [verb] To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft. | [verb] To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. | [verb] To speak in a monotone way. DRONER (7) DRONES (7) [noun] A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee. | [noun] Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler. | [noun] One who performs menial or tedious work. DRONGO (8) [noun] Any bird of the family Dicruridae. | [noun] A fool, an idiot, a stupid fellow. DROOLS (7) [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. | [verb] To secrete any substance in a similar way. | [verb] To react to something with uncontrollable desire. DROOPS (9) [verb] To hang downward; to sag. | [verb] To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. | [verb] To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. DROOPY (12) [adjective] Tending to droop; sagging; wilting. DROPSY (12) [noun] Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DROSKY (14) DROSSY (10) DROUKS (11) DROUTH (10) [noun] A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. | [noun] (by extension) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. DROVED (11) [verb] To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance. | [verb] To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. DROVER (10) DROVES (10) [noun] A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively). | [noun] (collective) A group of hares. DROWND (11) DROWNS (10) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWSE (10) [noun] The state of being sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. DROWSY (13) [adjective] Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness | [adjective] Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific. | [adjective] Boring. DRUDGE (9) [noun] A person who works in a low servile job. | [noun] Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. | [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DRUGGY (12) [noun] A drug addict or abuser. | [adjective] Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc. DRUIDS (8) [noun] One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the adoption of Abrahamic religions. DRUMLY (12) DRUNKS (11) [noun] One who is intoxicated with alcohol. | [noun] A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated. | [noun] A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness. DRUPES (9) [noun] A stone fruit. DRUSES (7) [noun] An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. | [noun] An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. | [noun] A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye. DRYADS (11) [noun] In Greek myth, a female tree spirit. DRYERS (10) [noun] One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. | [noun] A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. | [noun] An electric hair dryer. DRYEST (10) DRYING (11) [verb] To lose moisture. | [verb] To remove moisture from. | [verb] To be thirsty. DRYISH (13) DRYLOT (10) DUALLY (10) DUBBED (12) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUBBER (11) DUBBIN (11) [noun] A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof. | [verb] To apply dubbin to DUCATS (9) [noun] A gold coin minted by various European nations. | [noun] A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general. | [noun] A ticket. DUCKED (14) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. DUCKER (13) DUCKIE (13) DUCTAL (9) DUCTED (10) [verb] To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts). | [adjective] Fitted with a duct DUDDIE (9) DUDEEN (8) [noun] A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay. DUDING (9) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUDISH (11) DUELED (8) [verb] To engage in a battle. DUELER (7) [noun] A person who fights a duel DUELLI (7) DUELLO (7) [noun] A duel. DUENDE (8) [noun] A small, mischievous humanoid creature in Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Latin American, and Philippine folklore/mythology; an imp. | [noun] Personal charm. DUENNA (7) [noun] A chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman. | [noun] A governess or nanny. DUFFEL (13) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. | [noun] Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit. DUFFER (13) [adjective] Worthless; not working properly, defective. | [noun] An incompetent or clumsy person. | [noun] A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs. DUFFLE (13) [noun] A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. | [noun] Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit. DUGONG (9) [noun] A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions. DUGOUT (8) [noun] A canoe made from a hollowed-out log. | [noun] A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire. | [noun] A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game. DUIKER (11) [noun] Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily. DUKING (12) [verb] To hit or beat with the fists. | [verb] To give cash to; to give a tip to. DULCET (9) [adjective] Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious. | [adjective] Generally pleasing; agreeable. | [adjective] Sweet to the taste. DULIAS (7) DULLED (8) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULLER (7) [adjective] Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp. | [adjective] Boring; not exciting or interesting. | [adjective] Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness. DULSES (7) DUMBED (12) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMBER (11) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. DUMBLY (14) DUMDUM (12) [noun] A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound. | [noun] An ignorant person; an idiot. DUMPED (12) [verb] To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. | [verb] To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. | [verb] To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. DUMPER (11) [noun] A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites. | [noun] A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites. | [noun] One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship. DUNAMS (9) [noun] An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. | [noun] A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. | [noun] Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). DUNCES (9) [noun] An unintelligent person. DUNGED (9) [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. | [verb] To release dung: to defecate. DUNITE (7) [noun] A type of igneous rock with a coarse-grained or phaneritic texture. DUNKED (12) DUNKER (11) [noun] Someone who dunks. | [noun] A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks. | [noun] A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea. DUNLIN (7) [noun] A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint. DUNNED (8) [verb] To ask or beset a debtor for payment. | [verb] To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. DUNNER (7) DUNTED (8) [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. DUOLOG (8) DUOMOS (9) [noun] A cathedral, especially one in Italy. DUPERS (9) [noun] A person who dupes another DUPERY (12) DUPING (10) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DUPLEX (16) [noun] A house made up of two dwelling units. | [noun] A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting. | [noun] A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time. DUPPED (12) DURBAR (9) [noun] A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India. | [noun] An audience chamber. | [noun] The body of officials at a native court. DURESS (7) [noun] Harsh treatment. | [noun] Constraint by threat. | [noun] Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats. DURIAN (7) [noun] Any of several trees, genus Durio, of Southeast Asia. | [noun] The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor. | [noun] A yellow colour, like that of durian flesh (also called durian yellow). DURING (8) [verb] To last, continue, endure. | [preposition] For all of a given time interval. | [preposition] At any time or period within a given time interval. DURION (7) DURNED (8) [adjective] Darned. DUROCS (9) [noun] A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America. DURRAS (7) DURRIE (7) [noun] A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet. DURUMS (9) DUSKED (12) [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. | [verb] To make dusk. DUSTED (8) [verb] To remove dust from. | [verb] To remove dust; to clean by removing dust. | [verb] Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth. DUSTER (7) [noun] An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc. | [noun] Someone who dusts. | [noun] A light, loose-fitting long coat. DUSTUP (9) [noun] A scuffle or fight. | [noun] (by extension) An argument or dispute. DUTIES (7) [noun] That which one is morally or legally obligated to do. | [noun] The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task. | [noun] A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff. DUVETS (10) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. DWARFS (13) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DWEEBS (12) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. DWELLS (10) [noun] A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. | [noun] A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. | [noun] A planned delay in a timed control program. DWINED (11) DWINES (10) DYABLE (12) DYADIC (13) DYBBUK (18) [noun] A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. DYEING (11) [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [noun] The act by which something is dyed. DYINGS (11) DYKING (15) [noun] The process of building a dike. DYNAMO (12) [noun] An electricity generator, a dynamo-electric machine. | [noun] An energetic person. DYNAST (10) [noun] A ruler or governor, especially a hereditary ruler or someone who founded or is part of a dynasty. DYNEIN (10) DYNELS (10) DYNODE (11) [noun] Any of a series of electrodes within a photomultiplier tube. DYVOUR (13)

DABBERS (12) [noun] A thing or person that dabs. | [noun] A cushioned pad used for applying ink. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DABBING (13) [verb] To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. | [verb] To apply a substance in this way. | [verb] To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. DABBLED (13) [verb] To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble. | [verb] To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle. | [verb] To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DABBLER (12) DABBLES (12) [verb] To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble. | [verb] To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle. | [verb] To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DABSTER (10) DACKERS (14) DACOITS (10) [noun] A bandit or armed robber, especially in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and the surrounding region. DACOITY (13) [noun] Violent robbery carried out by a dacoit or a gang of dacoits. DACTYLI (13) DACTYLS (13) [noun] A poetical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. DADAISM (11) DADAIST (9) DADDIES (10) [noun] (usually childish) Father. | [noun] A male lover. | [noun] An informal term of address for a man. DADDLED (11) DADDLES (10) DADOING (10) DAEMONS (10) [noun] A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. | [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. DAFFIER (14) [adjective] Somewhat mad or eccentric. DAFFILY (17) DAFFING (15) DAFTEST (11) [adjective] Foolish, silly, stupid. | [adjective] Crazy, insane, mad. | [adjective] Gentle, meek, mild. DAGGERS (10) [noun] A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade. | [noun] The text character †; the obelus. | [noun] A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win DAGGLED (11) DAGGLES (10) DAGLOCK (15) DAGOBAS (11) DAGWOOD (13) [noun] A multi-layered sandwich containing cold cuts, cheese, lettuce and any of several other fillings DAHLIAS (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico. DAHOONS (11) DAIKERS (12) DAIKONS (12) [noun] An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper. | [noun] Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish. DAILIES (8) [noun] Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day. DAIMIOS (10) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAIMONS (10) [noun] An evil supernatural spirit. | [noun] A neutral supernatural spirit. | [noun] Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. DAIMYOS (13) [noun] A lord during the Japanese feudal period. DAIRIES (8) [noun] A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese. | [noun] A dairy farm. | [noun] A shop selling dairy products. DAISIED (9) DAISIES (8) [noun] A wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals | [noun] Many other flowering plants of various species. | [noun] A boot or other footwear. DAKOITS (12) DAKOITY (15) DALAPON (10) DALASIS (8) [noun] The currency of the Gambia, divided into 100 bututs. DALEDHS (12) DALETHS (11) DALLIED (9) [verb] To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle. | [verb] To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet | [verb] To delay unnecessarily; to while away. DALLIER (8) DALLIES (8) [verb] To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle. | [verb] To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet | [verb] To delay unnecessarily; to while away. DALTONS (8) [noun] The atomic mass unit DAMAGED (12) [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. | [verb] To undergo damage. | [adjective] Suffered a damage. DAMAGER (11) DAMAGES (11) [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. | [verb] To undergo damage. | [noun] The money paid or awarded to a claimant (in England), a pursuer (in Scotland) or a plaintiff (in the US) in a civil action as compensation for a loss suffered by the same. DAMASKS (14) [noun] An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus. | [noun] Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour. | [noun] A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings. DAMMARS (12) DAMMERS (12) DAMMING (13) [verb] To block the flow of water. DAMNERS (10) DAMNIFY (16) [verb] To damage physically; to injure. | [verb] To cause injuries or loss to. DAMNING (11) [verb] To condemn to hell. | [verb] To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. | [verb] To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. DAMOSEL (10) DAMOZEL (19) DAMPENS (12) [verb] To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet. | [verb] To become damp or moist. | [verb] To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen. DAMPERS (12) [noun] Something that damps or checks: | [noun] Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast. DAMPEST (12) [adjective] In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist. | [adjective] Despondent; dispirited, downcast. | [adjective] Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale. DAMPING (13) [verb] To dampen; to make moderately wet | [verb] To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull. | [verb] To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). DAMPISH (15) DAMSELS (10) [noun] A young woman (of noble birth). | [noun] A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience). | [noun] A young woman who is not married. DAMSONS (10) [noun] A subspecies of plum tree, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia. | [noun] The edible fruit of this tree. DANCERS (10) [noun] A person who dances, usually as a job or profession. | [noun] A stripper. DANCING (11) [verb] To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music. | [verb] To leap or move lightly and rapidly. | [verb] To perform the steps to. DANDERS (9) [noun] Dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp. | [noun] Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals. | [noun] Allergen particles that accumulate on and may be shed from the skin and fur of domestic animals, especially from household pets such as cats and dogs. DANDIER (9) [adjective] Like a dandy, foppish. | [adjective] Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be. | [adjective] Excellent; first-rate. DANDIES (9) [noun] A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance. | [noun] A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl. | [noun] A dandy roller. DANDIFY (15) DANDILY (12) DANDLED (10) [verb] To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. | [verb] To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. | [verb] To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. DANDLER (9) DANDLES (9) [verb] To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. | [verb] To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. | [verb] To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. DANGERS (9) [noun] Exposure to likely harm; peril. | [noun] An instance or cause of likely harm. | [noun] Mischief. DANGING (10) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. DANGLED (10) [verb] To hang loosely with the ability to swing. | [verb] The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string. | [verb] To hang or trail something loosely. DANGLER (9) DANGLES (9) [noun] An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. | [noun] The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. | [noun] A dangling ornament or decoration. DANKEST (12) [adjective] Dark, damp and humid. | [adjective] (of marijuana) Highly potent. | [adjective] (often ironic) Great, awesome. DANSEUR (8) DAPHNES (13) [noun] Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals. DAPHNIA (13) [noun] A water flea of the genus Daphnia. DAPPING (13) [verb] To greet with a dap. DAPPLED (13) [verb] To mark or become marked with mottling or spots. | [adjective] Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dapple. DAPPLES (12) [noun] A mottled marking, usually in clusters. | [noun] An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat. | [verb] To mark or become marked with mottling or spots. DAPSONE (10) [noun] A drug, 4-[(4-aminobenzene)sulfonyl]aniline, used in the treatment of leprosy and similar infections DARBIES (10) [noun] A specialized tool used to finish concrete slabs. A stiff, wooden or metal wedge or triangle, it is used to smooth and level the surface of wet concrete. DAREFUL (11) DARESAY (11) [verb] To venture to say, to think something probable. DARINGS (9) DARIOLE (8) [noun] A dessert consisting of puff pastry filled with almond cream, baked in an oven. DARKENS (12) [verb] To make dark or darker by reducing light. | [verb] To become dark or darker (having less light). | [verb] To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud). DARKEST (12) [adjective] Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. | [adjective] (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light. | [adjective] Hidden, secret, obscure. DARKEYS (15) DARKIES (12) [noun] A person with dark skin. | [noun] A dark lantern. DARKING (13) DARKISH (15) DARKLED (13) DARKLES (12) DARLING (9) [noun] A person who is dear to one. | [noun] A kind or sweet person; sweetheart. | [noun] An affectionate term of address. DARNELS (8) [noun] A species of ryegrass, Lolium temulentum, often found in wheat fields and often host to a fungus intoxicating to humans and animals. | [noun] Various species of Lolium, especially as a weed in wheat fields. DARNERS (8) [noun] One who darns. | [noun] Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a hawker. DARNING (9) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [verb] To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric. | [noun] A repair made by darning. DARSHAN (11) [noun] Hierophany, theophany; being in the presence of the divine or holy (as a person or object). DARTERS (8) [noun] One who darts, or who throws darts; that which darts. | [noun] Any member of the family Anhingidae, waterbirds with long necks. | [noun] Any of various darting freshwater fish of the family Percidae, that are usually small and brightly coloured and are native to North America. DARTING (9) [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. | [verb] To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot | [verb] To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart DARTLED (9) DARTLES (8) DASHEEN (11) [noun] Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant. DASHERS (11) [noun] A person who dashes; a fast runner. | [noun] That which dashes or agitates. | [noun] A dashboard or splashboard. DASHIER (11) DASHIKI (15) [noun] A loose and brightly-colored African shirt. DASHING (12) [verb] To run quickly or for a short distance. | [verb] To leave or depart. | [verb] To destroy by striking (against). DASHPOT (13) [noun] A mechanical damping device consisting of a piston that moves through a viscous fluid (usually oil); used, in conjunction with a spring, in shock absorbers. DASSIES (8) [noun] A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax. DASTARD (9) [noun] A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak. | [verb] To dastardize. | [adjective] Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly. DASYURE (11) [noun] Any of various Australasian carnivorous marsupials, of the family Dasyuridae, which include the marsupial equivalent to cats DATABLE (10) [adjective] That may be ascribed a date or age. | [adjective] Suitable for dating (romantic outings). DATCHAS (13) [noun] A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside. DATEDLY (12) DATIVAL (11) DATIVES (11) [noun] (grammar) The dative case. DATURAS (8) [noun] A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. DATURIC (10) DAUBERS (10) [noun] One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter. | [noun] (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber. | [noun] A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. DAUBERY (13) DAUBIER (10) DAUBING (11) [verb] To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. | [verb] To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. | [verb] To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. DAUNDER (9) DAUNTED (9) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. | [adjective] (Normally with a copular verb). Mildly afraid or worried by some upcoming situation. DAUNTER (8) DAUPHIN (13) [noun] The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois. | [noun] Allegorical An eldest son. DAUTIES (8) DAUTING (9) DAVENED (12) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAWDLED (13) [verb] To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time. | [verb] To spend (time) without haste or purpose. | [verb] To move or walk lackadaisically. DAWDLER (12) DAWDLES (12) [verb] To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time. | [verb] To spend (time) without haste or purpose. | [verb] To move or walk lackadaisically. DAWNING (12) [verb] To begin to brighten with daylight. | [verb] To start to appear or be realized. | [verb] To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. DAWTIES (11) DAWTING (12) DAYBEDS (14) [noun] A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night. | [noun] A long chair for reclining. DAYBOOK (17) [noun] A daily chronicle; a diary. | [noun] (bookkeeping) A ledger; an accounting journal. | [noun] A logbook. DAYGLOW (15) DAYLILY (14) [noun] Any of several perennial plants, of the genus Hemerocallis, that have fleshy roots, grasslike leaves and colourful flowers that bloom for just one day. DAYLONG (12) [adjective] Which lasts a day, or approximately so. | [adverb] Throughout the day. DAYMARE (13) [noun] A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness. DAYROOM (13) [noun] A common room in a barracks or dormitory where the inhabitants can mingle and socialize. DAYSIDE (12) [noun] The side of a planet that faces towards the sun around which it orbits DAYSMAN (13) DAYSMEN (13) DAYSTAR (11) DAYTIME (13) [noun] The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset. | [adjective] Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day. | [adjective] Happening during the day. DAYWORK (18) [noun] The work done in a day; a day's work. | [noun] The amount of land that can be worked in a day. | [noun] Work carried out or paid for on a daily basis; day labour. DAZEDLY (21) DAZZLED (27) [verb] To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness. | [verb] To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. | [verb] To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. DAZZLER (26) [noun] One who or that which dazzles; something spectacular. DAZZLES (26) [verb] To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness. | [verb] To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. | [verb] To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. DEACONS (10) [noun] (Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6). | [noun] (Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work. | [noun] Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor. DEADENS (9) [verb] To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle. | [verb] To become less lively; to diminish (by itself). | [verb] To make soundproof. DEADEST (9) [adjective] No longer living. | [adjective] Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. | [adjective] (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored. DEADEYE (12) [noun] A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds. | [noun] A very accurate marksman. | [noun] A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant. DEADPAN (11) [noun] A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. | [verb] To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner. | [adjective] Deliberately impassive or expressionless. DEAFENS (11) [verb] To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently. | [verb] To make soundproof. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To stun, as with noise. DEAFEST (11) [adjective] Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear. | [adjective] Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless. | [adjective] Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. DEAFISH (14) DEAIRED (9) DEALATE (8) DEALERS (8) [noun] One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman. | [noun] A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs. | [noun] A particular type of stock broker or trader. DEALING (9) [verb] To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | [verb] To administer or give out, as in small portions. | [verb] To distribute cards to the players in a game. DEANERY (11) [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. DEANING (9) DEAREST (8) [adjective] High in price; expensive. | [adjective] Loved; lovable. | [adjective] Loving, affectionate, heartfelt DEARIES (8) [noun] (chiefly as a term of address) A person who is dear; sweetie. | [noun] A dear; a darling. | [noun] A term of address for a female. DEARTHS (11) [noun] A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. | [noun] (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply. | [noun] Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly. DEASHED (12) DEASHES (11) DEATHLY (14) [adjective] Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death. | [adjective] Deadly, fatal, causing death. | [adjective] Extreme. DEAVING (12) DEBACLE (12) [noun] An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. | [noun] A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water. DEBARKS (14) [verb] To unload goods from an aircraft or ship. | [verb] To disembark. | [verb] To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled. DEBASED (11) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBASER (10) DEBASES (10) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBATED (11) [verb] To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. | [verb] To fight. | [verb] To engage in combat for; to strive for. DEBATER (10) [noun] One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues. DEBATES (10) [noun] An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision. | [noun] An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views. | [noun] Discussion of opposing views. DEBAUCH (15) [noun] An individual act of debauchery. | [noun] An orgy. | [verb] To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce. DEBEAKS (14) [verb] To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms. DEBITED (11) [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. | [verb] To record a receivable in the bookkeeping. DEBONED (11) [verb] To remove the bones from. | [adjective] Having its bones removed. DEBONER (10) DEBONES (10) [verb] To remove the bones from. DEBOUCH (15) [noun] A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours. | [noun] A fortress at the end of a defile. | [verb] To pour forth from a narrow opening; to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space. DEBRIDE (11) [verb] To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like). DEBRIEF (13) [verb] To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence. | [verb] To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc. | [verb] To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner. DEBTORS (10) [noun] A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt | [noun] One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding. DEBUNKS (14) [verb] To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something. DEBUTED (11) [verb] To formally introduce, as to the public | [verb] To make one's initial formal appearance DECADAL (11) DECADES (11) [noun] A group, set, or series of ten , particularly: | [noun] A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance. | [noun] The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1. DECAGON (11) [noun] A polygon with ten sides and ten angles. DECALOG (11) DECAMPS (14) [verb] To break up camp and move on. | [verb] To disappear suddenly and secretly. DECANAL (10) [adjective] Pertaining to a dean or deanery. | [noun] The aliphatic aldehyde, CH3(CH2)8CHO, related to capric acid DECANES (10) DECANTS (10) [verb] To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. | [verb] To pour from one vessel into another. | [verb] To flow. DECAPOD (13) [noun] Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish. | [noun] Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters. | [noun] A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations. Sometimes capitalized. DECARES (10) DECAYED (14) [verb] To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. | [verb] (of organic material) To rot, to go bad. | [verb] (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons. DECAYER (13) DECEASE (10) [noun] Death, departure from life. | [verb] To die. DECEITS (10) [noun] An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. | [noun] An act of deceiving someone. | [noun] The state of being deceitful or deceptive. DECEIVE (13) [verb] To trick or mislead. DECENCY (15) [noun] The quality of being decent; propriety. | [noun] That which is proper or becoming. DECERNS (10) DECIARE (10) DECIBEL (12) [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 = 10 log10(P1 / P2), where P1 and P2 are the relative powers of the sound. DECIDED (12) [verb] To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle | [verb] To make a judgment, especially after deliberation | [verb] To cause someone to come to a decision DECIDER (11) [noun] (of a controversy, question, etc) A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides. | [noun] An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter. | [noun] A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input. DECIDES (11) [verb] To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle | [verb] To make a judgment, especially after deliberation | [verb] To cause someone to come to a decision DECIDUA (11) [noun] A mucous membrane that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation and modified during pregnancy DECILES (10) [noun] Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency. | [noun] Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided. | [noun] An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac. DECIMAL (12) [noun] A number expressed in the base-ten system, a fractional numeral written in this system. | [noun] The decimal system itself. | [noun] A decimal place. DECKELS (14) DECKERS (14) DECKING (15) [verb] To furnish with a deck, as a vessel. | [verb] To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch. | [verb] To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result. DECKLES (14) [noun] (paper-making) A frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper. | [noun] A membrane covering the outermost side of a brisket of beef, where it was attached to the rib cage | [noun] (Jewish cuisine) The fattier, smaller point-cut portion of a brisket of beef, being the superficial pectoral muscle. DECLAIM (12) [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. DECLARE (10) [verb] To make clear, explain, interpret. | [verb] To make a declaration. | [verb] To show one's cards in order to score. DECLASS (10) [verb] To lower the class or social standing of. | [verb] To remove from a class. DECLAWS (13) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. DECLINE (10) [noun] Downward movement, fall. | [noun] A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. | [noun] A weakening. DECOCTS (12) [verb] To make an infusion. | [verb] To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down. | [verb] To heat as if by boiling. DECODED (12) [verb] To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. | [verb] To figure out something difficult to interpret. DECODER (11) [noun] A person who decodes secret messages | [noun] A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal DECODES (11) [verb] To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. | [verb] To figure out something difficult to interpret. DECOLOR (10) [verb] To deprive of colour; to bleach. DECORUM (12) [noun] Appropriate social behavior. | [noun] A convention of social behavior. DECOYED (14) [verb] To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap. | [verb] To act as, or use, a decoy. DECOYER (13) DECREED (11) [verb] To command by a decree. DECREER (10) DECREES (10) [noun] An edict or law. | [noun] The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity. | [noun] The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate. DECRIAL (10) DECRIED (11) [verb] To denounce as harmful. | [verb] To blame for ills. DECRIER (10) DECRIES (10) [verb] To denounce as harmful. | [verb] To blame for ills. DECROWN (13) DECRYPT (15) [noun] A decoded communication. | [verb] To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text. DECUMAN (12) DECUPLE (12) DECURVE (13) DEDUCED (12) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEDUCES (11) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEDUCTS (11) [verb] To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount. DEEDIER (9) DEEDING (10) [verb] To transfer real property by deed. DEEJAYS (18) [noun] A disc jockey. | [verb] To perform as a disc jockey. DEEMING (11) [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. | [verb] To dispense (justice); to administer (law). DEEPENS (10) [verb] To make deep or deeper | [verb] To make darker or more intense; to darken | [verb] To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree DEEPEST (10) [adjective] (of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards. | [adjective] (intellectual, social) Complex, involved. | [adjective] (sound, voice) Low in pitch. DEERFLY (14) DEEWANS (11) DEFACED (14) [verb] To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | [verb] To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | [verb] (flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. DEFACER (13) DEFACES (13) [verb] To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | [verb] To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | [verb] (flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. DEFAMED (14) [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. | [verb] To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. | [verb] To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. DEFAMER (13) DEFAMES (13) [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. | [verb] To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. | [verb] To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. DEFANGS (12) [verb] To remove the fangs from (something). | [verb] To render harmless. DEFAULT (11) [noun] The condition of failing to meet an obligation. | [noun] The original software programming settings as set by the factory | [noun] A loss incurred by failing to compete. DEFEATS (11) [verb] To overcome in battle or contest. | [verb] To reduce, to nothing, the strength of. | [verb] To nullify DEFECTS (13) [noun] A fault or malfunction. | [noun] The quantity or amount by which anything falls short. | [noun] A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient. DEFENCE (13) [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. DEFENDS (12) [verb] To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. | [verb] To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. | [verb] To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused). DEFENSE (11) [noun] The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. | [noun] Anything employed to oppose attack(s). | [noun] An argument in support or justification of something. DEFIANT (11) [noun] One who defies opposition. | [adjective] Defying. | [adjective] Boldly resisting opposition. DEFICIT (13) [noun] Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. | [noun] A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue. DEFIERS (11) DEFILED (12) [verb] To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. | [verb] To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate | [verb] To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape DEFILER (11) DEFILES (11) [verb] To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. | [verb] To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate | [verb] To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape DEFINED (12) [verb] To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. | [verb] To settle, decide (an argument etc.) | [verb] To express the essential nature of something. DEFINER (11) DEFINES (11) [verb] To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. | [verb] To settle, decide (an argument etc.) | [verb] To express the essential nature of something. DEFLATE (11) [verb] To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre | [verb] To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink | [verb] To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. DEFLEAS (11) DEFLECT (13) [verb] To make (something) deviate from its original path. | [verb] (ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players. | [verb] To deviate from its original path. DEFOAMS (13) DEFOCUS (13) [noun] The process of going out of focus. | [verb] To cause (a lens, or a beam of light or particles, etc.) to be out of focus. DEFORCE (13) [verb] To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it. | [verb] To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty. DEFORMS (13) [verb] To change the form of, usually negatively; to give (something) an unusual or abnormal shape. | [verb] To change the looks of, usually negatively; to give something an unusual or abnormal appearance. | [verb] To mar the character of. DEFRAUD (12) [verb] To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle. | [verb] To deprive. DEFRAYS (14) [verb] To spend (money). | [verb] To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something). | [verb] To pay for (something). DEFROCK (17) [verb] To divest of a frock. | [verb] To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy. | [verb] (by extension) To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner. DEFROST (11) [noun] The removal of frost. | [verb] To remove frost from. | [verb] To thaw something. DEFTEST (11) [adjective] Quick and neat in action; skillful. DEFUNCT (13) [noun] The dead person (referred to). | [verb] To make defunct. | [adjective] Deceased, dead. DEFUNDS (12) [verb] To cancel funding for. DEFUSED (12) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUSES (11) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUZED (21) DEFUZES (20) DEFYING (15) [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. | [verb] To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations. DEGAMES (11) DEGAMIS (11) DEGASES (9) [verb] To remove the gas from. DEGAUSS (9) [noun] The act by which something is degaussed. | [verb] To reduce or eliminate the magnetic field from (the hull of a ship, or a computer monitor, etc.). DEGERMS (11) DEGLAZE (18) [verb] To remove glaze from. | [verb] To abrade the cylinders of an engine to ensure a tight seal. | [verb] To detach small pieces of cooked food from a pan by adding liquid, so that they can be used in further cooking. DEGRADE (10) [verb] To lower in value or social position. | [verb] To reduce in quality or purity. | [verb] To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. DEGREED (10) DEGREES (9) [noun] A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) | [noun] A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference. | [noun] A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit. DEGUSTS (9) [verb] To taste carefully to fully appreciate it. | [verb] To savour DEHISCE (13) [verb] To burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen or similar content. | [verb] To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound. DEHORNS (11) [verb] To remove the horns from. DEHORTS (11) [verb] To dissuade. DEICERS (10) DEICIDE (11) [noun] The killing of a god or goddess; godslaughter. | [noun] The killer of a god or goddess. | [noun] The crucifixion of Jesus viewed as a crime. DEICING (11) DEICTIC (12) [noun] (grammar) Such a word (such as I or here). | [adjective] (grammar) Of or pertaining to deixis; to a word whose meaning is dependent on context. | [adjective] Directly pointing out; specifying. DEIFIED (12) [verb] To make a god of (something or someone). | [verb] To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity. DEIFIER (11) DEIFIES (11) [verb] To make a god of (something or someone). | [verb] To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity. DEIFORM (13) [adjective] Godlike | [adjective] Conformable to the will of God DEIGNED (10) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DEISTIC (10) DEITIES (8) [noun] A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. | [noun] The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.] | [noun] A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man. DEJECTA (17) DEJECTS (17) [verb] Make sad or dispirited. | [verb] To cast down. DEKARES (12) DELAINE (8) DELATED (9) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DELATES (8) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DELATOR (8) DELAYED (12) [verb] To put off until a later time; to defer. | [verb] To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time. | [verb] To allay; to temper. DELAYER (11) DELEADS (9) DELEAVE (11) DELEING (9) [verb] (usually imperative) to delete DELETED (9) [verb] To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. DELETES (8) [verb] To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. DELICTS (10) [noun] (Scottish law) A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law. | [noun] The branch of law dealing in delicts. DELIGHT (12) [noun] Joy; pleasure. | [noun] Something that gives great joy or pleasure. | [verb] To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. DELIMED (11) DELIMES (10) DELIMIT (10) [verb] To mark or fix the limits of. | [verb] To demarcate. DELIRIA (8) DELISTS (8) [verb] To remove from an official register or list. DELIVER (11) [verb] To set free from restraint or danger. | [verb] (process) To do with birth. | [verb] To free from or disburden of anything. DELLIES (8) DELOUSE (8) [verb] To remove lice from. | [verb] To apply insecticides or insect repellents to, in order to be sure that no lice or other parasites are present. | [verb] To remove malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms, from. DELPHIC (15) [adjective] Of or relating to Delphi or its oracles. | [adjective] Obscurely prophetic. | [adjective] Relating to a womb DELTAIC (10) DELTOID (9) [noun] The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder. | [noun] The deltoid ligament, a triangular ligament on the human ankle. | [adjective] In the shape of the upper case Greek letter delta Δ; triangular. DELUDED (10) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. | [adjective] Being affected by delusions. DELUDER (9) DELUDES (9) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. DELUGED (10) [verb] To flood with water. | [verb] To overwhelm. DELUGES (9) [noun] A great flood or rain. | [noun] An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction. | [noun] (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System. DELVERS (11) DELVING (12) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DEMAGOG (12) DEMANDS (11) [noun] The desire to purchase goods and services. | [noun] The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. | [noun] A forceful claim for something. DEMARKS (14) [verb] To demarcate. DEMASTS (10) DEMEANS (10) [verb] To debase; to lower; to degrade. | [verb] To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. | [verb] To mortify. DEMENTS (10) [verb] To drive mad; to craze DEMERGE (11) [verb] To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger. | [verb] To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. DEMERIT (10) [noun] A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage | [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. DEMESNE (10) [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. DEMETON (10) DEMIGOD (12) [noun] A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal. | [noun] A lesser deity. DEMIREP (12) [noun] A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. DEMISED (11) [verb] To give. | [verb] To convey, as by will or lease. | [verb] To transmit by inheritance. DEMISES (10) [noun] The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. | [noun] Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor. | [noun] Death. DEMODED (12) DEMONIC (12) [adjective] Pertaining to demons or evil spirits; demoniac. | [adjective] Pertaining to dæmons in ancient Greek thought; concerning supernatural ‘genius’. DEMOSES (10) DEMOTED (11) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DEMOTES (10) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DEMOTIC (12) [noun] Language as spoken or written by the common people. | [adjective] Of or for the common people. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing, with simplified, cursive hieroglyphs. DEMOUNT (10) [verb] To remove from its mounting; to take down from a mounted position. | [verb] To dismount. DEMURER (10) [adjective] (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious. | [adjective] Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. DENARII (8) [noun] A small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces. DENDRON (9) [noun] A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendrite. | [noun] A section of a dendrimer that includes the central atom or group. DENGUES (9) DENIALS (8) [noun] The negation in logic. | [noun] A refusal to comply with a request. | [noun] An assertion of untruth. DENIERS (8) [noun] An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou. | [noun] A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes. | [noun] Person who denies something. DENIZEN (17) [noun] An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in. | [noun] One who frequents a place. | [noun] A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent. DENNING (9) [verb] To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den. DENOTED (9) [verb] To indicate; to mark. | [verb] To make overt. | [verb] To refer to literally; to convey as meaning. DENOTES (8) [verb] To indicate; to mark. | [verb] To make overt. | [verb] To refer to literally; to convey as meaning. DENSELY (11) [adverb] In a dense manner. DENSEST (8) [adjective] Having relatively high density. | [adjective] Compact; crowded together. | [adjective] Thick; difficult to penetrate. DENSIFY (14) [verb] To make dense. | [verb] To become dense. DENSITY (11) [noun] 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] 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. DENTALS (8) [noun] Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth. | [noun] A dental sound. DENTATE (8) [adjective] Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed. DENTILS (8) [noun] Any one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting like teeth from a molding or beneath a cornice. DENTINE (8) [noun] The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth DENTING (9) [verb] To impact something, producing a dent. | [verb] To develop a dent or dents. DENTINS (8) DENTIST (8) [noun] A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry. DENTOID (9) DENTURE (8) [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 DENUDED (10) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. | [adjective] Exposed by erosion DENUDER (9) DENUDES (9) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. DENYING (12) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DEODAND (10) DEODARA (9) DEODARS (9) [noun] Cedrus deodara, a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas. DEONTIC (10) [adjective] Pertaining to necessity, duty or obligation, or expressions conveying this. DEORBIT (10) DEPAINT (10) DEPARTS (10) [verb] To leave. | [verb] To set out on a journey. | [verb] To die. DEPENDS (11) [verb] (followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on. | [verb] (followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely. | [verb] To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. DEPERMS (12) DEPICTS (12) [verb] To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. DEPLANE (10) [verb] To disembark from an airplane. DEPLETE (10) [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. DEPLORE (10) [verb] To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for. | [verb] To condemn; to express strong disapproval of. | [verb] To regard as hopeless; to give up. DEPLOYS (13) [verb] To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use. | [verb] To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use. | [verb] To install, test and implement a computer system or application. DEPLUME (12) [verb] To strip of feathers or plumage. | [verb] To lay bare; to expose. DEPONED (11) [verb] To testify, especially in the form of a deposition. | [verb] To take the deposition of; to depose. | [verb] To lay, as a stake; to wager. DEPONES (10) [verb] To testify, especially in the form of a deposition. | [verb] To take the deposition of; to depose. | [verb] To lay, as a stake; to wager. DEPORTS (10) [verb] To comport (oneself); to behave. | [verb] To evict, especially from a country. DEPOSAL (10) DEPOSED (11) [verb] To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. | [verb] To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. | [verb] To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition DEPOSER (10) DEPOSES (10) [verb] To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. | [verb] To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. | [verb] To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition DEPOSIT (10) [noun] 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] Money placed in an account. DEPRAVE (13) [verb] To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile | [verb] To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt DEPRESS (10) [verb] To press down. | [verb] To make depressed, sad or bored. | [verb] To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy. DEPRIVE (13) [verb] To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something. | [verb] To degrade (a clergyman) from office. | [verb] To bereave. DEPSIDE (11) DEPUTED (11) [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate | [verb] To deputize (someone), appoint as deputy DEPUTES (10) [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate | [verb] To deputize (someone), appoint as deputy DERAIGN (9) DERAILS (8) [verb] To cause to come off the tracks. | [verb] To come off the tracks. | [verb] To deviate from the previous course or direction. DERANGE (9) [verb] (chiefly passive) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged. | [verb] To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state. | [verb] To disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone; derail. DERATED (9) [verb] To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. DERATES (8) [verb] To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. DERBIES (10) [noun] Any of several annual horse races. | [noun] (by extension) Any organized race. | [noun] A bowler hat. DERIDED (10) [verb] To harshly mock; ridicule. DERIDER (9) DERIDES (9) [verb] To harshly mock; ridicule. DERIVED (12) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DERIVER (11) DERIVES (11) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DERMOID (11) [adjective] Resembling skin DERNIER (8) DERRICK (14) [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] A hangman. DERRIES (8) DERVISH (14) [noun] A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning. | [noun] A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), the Dhulbahante anti-colonial polity geographically corresponding with Khaatumo. | [noun] One of the fanatical followers of the Mahdi, in the Sudan, in the 1880s. DESALTS (8) [verb] To remove salt from; to desalinate. DESANDS (9) DESCANT (10) [noun] A lengthy discourse on a subject. | [noun] A counterpoint melody sung or played above the theme | [verb] To discuss at length. DESCEND (11) [verb] 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] To enter mentally; to retire. | [verb] (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence. DESCENT (10) [noun] An instance of descending; act of coming down. | [noun] A way down. | [noun] A sloping passage or incline. DESERTS (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward | [noun] A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland. | [noun] Any barren place or situation. DESERVE (11) [verb] To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have. | [verb] To earn, win. | [verb] To reward, to give in return for service. DESEXED (16) [verb] To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization. DESEXES (15) [verb] To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization. DESIGNS (9) [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 (9) [verb] To want; to wish for earnestly. | [verb] To put a request to (someone); to entreat. | [verb] To want emotionally or sexually. DESIRER (8) DESIRES (8) [noun] Someone or something wished for. | [noun] Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. | [noun] The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something. DESISTS (8) [verb] To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from). DESKMAN (14) DESKMEN (14) DESKTOP (14) [noun] The top surface of a desk. | [noun] A desktop computer. | [noun] The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper. DESMANS (10) [noun] Either of two species, Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus, of aquatic or semi-aquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe. DESMIDS (11) [noun] Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales. DESMOID (11) [noun] A fibrous tumour. | [adjective] Pertaining to a bundle. | [adjective] Fibrous; having closely interwoven fibres in bundles. DESORBS (10) [verb] (of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed DESPAIR (10) [noun] Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. | [noun] That which causes despair. | [noun] That which is despaired of. DESPISE (10) [verb] To regard with contempt or scorn. | [verb] To disregard or ignore. DESPITE (10) [noun] Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred. | [noun] Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult. | [noun] Evil feeling; malice, spite. DESPOIL (10) [noun] Plunder; spoliation. | [verb] To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from. | [verb] To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob. DESPOND (11) [noun] Despondency. | [verb] To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart. DESPOTS (10) [noun] A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. | [noun] A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries) DESSERT (8) [noun] A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal DESTAIN (8) [verb] To remove a chemical stain from. | [verb] To lose a chemical stain. DESTINE (8) [verb] To preordain | [verb] To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use | [verb] To have a particular destination DESTINY (11) [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] The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. DESTROY (11) [verb] To damage beyond use or repair. | [verb] To neutralize, undo a property or condition. | [verb] To put down or euthanize. DESUGAR (9) DETAILS (8) [noun] Something small enough to escape casual notice. | [noun] A profusion of details. | [noun] The small things that can escape casual notice. DETAINS (8) [verb] To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. | [verb] To put under custody. | [verb] To keep back or from; to withhold. DETECTS (10) [verb] To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing DETENTE (8) [noun] A relaxing of tension, especially between countries. DETENTS (8) [noun] That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking. DETERGE (9) [verb] To clean of undesirable material, especially a wound (technical). DETESTS (8) [verb] To dislike intensely; to loathe. | [verb] To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. DETICKS (14) DETINUE (8) [noun] A person or thing detained; a detainee. | [noun] A legal action to reclaim goods wrongfully detained. DETOURS (8) [noun] A diversion or deviation from one's original route. | [verb] To make a detour. | [verb] To direct or send on a detour. DETOXED (16) [verb] To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs. DETOXES (15) [noun] Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or illegal, addictive drugs. | [noun] A detoxification unit. | [verb] To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs. DETRACT (10) [verb] To take away; to withdraw or remove. | [verb] To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry. DETRAIN (8) [verb] To exit from a train; to disembark | [verb] To remove a passenger or passengers from a train; to evacuate passengers from a train. | [verb] (of an athlete) to reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining. DETRUDE (9) DEUCING (11) DEUTZIA (17) [noun] Any of a group of cultivated shrubs, of the genus Deutzia, having white or pink flowers DEVALUE (11) [verb] To lower or remove the value of something. | [verb] To lose value; to depreciate. DEVEINS (11) [verb] To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp). DEVELED (12) DEVELOP (13) [verb] To change with a specific direction, progress. | [verb] To progress through a sequence of stages. | [verb] To advance; to further; to promote the growth of. DEVESTS (11) DEVIANT (11) [noun] A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior. | [noun] A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern. | [adjective] Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard. DEVIATE (11) [noun] A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert. | [noun] A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value. | [verb] To go off course from; to change course; to change plans. DEVICES (13) [noun] Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. | [noun] A peripheral device; an item of hardware. | [noun] A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. DEVILED (12) [verb] To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. DEVILRY (14) [noun] Mischief. | [noun] Wickedness; cruelty. | [noun] An action performed with the help of a devil; witchcraft. DEVIOUS (11) [adjective] Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank | [adjective] Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route DEVISAL (11) DEVISED (12) [verb] To use one's intellect to plan or design (something). | [verb] To leave (property) in a will. | [verb] To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. DEVISEE (11) [noun] The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will. DEVISER (11) DEVISES (11) [noun] The act of leaving real property in a will. | [noun] Such a will, or a clause in such a will. | [noun] The real property left in such a will. DEVISOR (11) DEVOICE (13) [verb] To pronounce a word with little movement of the vocal cords | [verb] To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel. DEVOIRS (11) [noun] (often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do. DEVOLVE (14) [verb] To roll (something) down; to unroll. | [verb] 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] To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone. DEVOTED (12) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOTEE (11) [noun] An ardent enthusiast or admirer. | [noun] A fanatical or zealous believer in a particular religion or god. | [noun] Someone with an amputee fetish. DEVOTES (11) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOURS (11) [verb] To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | [verb] To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | [verb] To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. DEWATER (11) [verb] To remove water from. DEWAXED (19) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. | [adjective] That has been treated by a dewaxing process DEWAXES (18) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. DEWCLAW (16) [noun] A vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground. DEWDROP (14) [noun] A droplet of water formed as dew. | [noun] (1800s) A slow pitch. DEWFALL (14) [noun] The forming of dew. | [noun] The time when dew begins to form. DEWIEST (11) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DEWLAPS (13) [noun] The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal. | [noun] The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person. DEWLESS (11) DEWOOLS (11) DEWORMS (13) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DEXTRAL (15) [adjective] Of or pertaining to the right side DEXTRAN (15) [noun] A biopolymer of glucose produced by enzymes of certain bacteria; used as a substitute for blood plasma, and as a stationary phase in chromatography. DEXTRIN (15) [noun] Any of a range of oligomers of glucose, intermediate in complexity between maltose and starch, produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; used commercially as adhesives. DEZINCS (19) DHARMAS (13) DHARMIC (15) DHARNAS (11) [noun] A nonviolent sit-in protest. | [noun] (specifically) A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor. DHOORAS (11) DHOOTIE (11) DHOOTIS (11) DHOURRA (11) DHURNAS (11) DHURRIE (11) [noun] A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet. DIABASE (10) [noun] A fine-grained igneous rock composed mostly of pyroxene and feldspar. DIABOLO (10) [noun] A juggling apparatus consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string attached to handsticks. DIACIDS (11) DIADEMS (11) [noun] An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty. | [noun] A crown. | [noun] Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown. DIAGRAM (11) [noun] A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole. | [noun] A graph or chart. | [noun] A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C". DIALECT (10) [noun] A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon. | [noun] Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong. | [noun] A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region. DIALERS (8) [noun] A person or device that dials, as using a telephone. DIALING (9) [verb] To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. | [verb] To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. | [verb] To use a dial or a telephone. DIALIST (8) DIALLED (9) [verb] To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. | [verb] To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. | [verb] To use a dial or a telephone. DIALLEL (8) DIALLER (8) [noun] A person or device that dials, as using a telephone. DIALOGS (9) [noun] A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. | [noun] In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters. | [noun] A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation. DIALYSE (11) [verb] To subject (something or someone) to dialysis. | [verb] To undergo dialysis. DIALYZE (20) [verb] To subject (something or someone) to dialysis. | [verb] To undergo dialysis. DIAMIDE (11) DIAMINE (10) [noun] Any compound containing two amino functional groups. DIAMINS (10) DIAMOND (11) [noun] A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron. | [noun] A gemstone made from this mineral. | [noun] A ring containing a diamond. | [noun] The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 4 1/2-point. DIAPERS (10) [noun] A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread. | [noun] A towel or napkin made from such fabric. | [noun] An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy. DIAPIRS (10) [noun] An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden. DIAPSID (11) [noun] Any of very many reptiles, of the subclass Diapsida, that have a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye DIARCHY (16) [noun] Rule by two people. | [noun] A state under the rule of two people. DIARIES (8) [noun] A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer. | [noun] A personal organizer or appointment diary. DIARIST (8) [noun] One who keeps a diary. DIASTEM (10) DIASTER (8) DIATOMS (10) [noun] Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta. DIATRON (8) DIAZINE (17) DIAZINS (17) DIAZOLE (17) DIBASIC (12) [adjective] (of an acid) containing two replaceable hydrogen atoms | [adjective] (of a salt) having two atoms of a univalent metal DIBBERS (12) [noun] A tool with a handle on one end and a point on the other, used in the garden to poke holes in preparation for planting seeds, bulbs, etc. Also known as a dibble or dib. | [noun] One who dibs. DIBBING (13) [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat. | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DIBBLED (13) [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. | [verb] To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. DIBBLER (12) [noun] A small Australian mouse-like marsupial (Parantechinus apicalis). | [noun] A dibble (device for making holes in which to plant seeds). | [noun] A person who uses a dibble. DIBBLES (12) [noun] A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which to set out plants or to plant seeds. | [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. DIBBUKS (16) DICASTS (10) DICIEST (10) [adjective] Fraught with danger. | [adjective] Of uncertain, risky outcome. | [adjective] Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy. DICKENS (14) [noun] The devil. | [noun] In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier). | [noun] A disturbance or row. DICKERS (14) [noun] A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins. | [noun] A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares. DICKEYS (17) [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. | [noun] A detachable shirt front, collar or bib. DICKIER (14) [adjective] Doubtful, troublesome; in poor condition | [adjective] Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious DICKIES (14) [noun] Head lice or nits. | [noun] A louse. | [noun] Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar. DICKING (15) [verb] To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up). | [verb] (of a man) To have sexual intercourse with. | [noun] An act of penetrative sexual intercourse with a man. DICLINY (13) DICOTYL (13) DICTATE (10) [noun] An order or command. | [verb] To order, command, control. | [verb] To speak in order for someone to write down the words. DICTIER (10) DICTION (10) [noun] Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication. | [noun] The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and expression. DICTUMS (12) [noun] An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. | [noun] A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. | [noun] The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. DICYCLY (18) DIDACTS (11) DIDDLED (11) [verb] To cheat; to swindle. | [verb] To have sex with. | [verb] To masturbate (especially of women). DIDDLER (10) [noun] A person who diddles; a cheat or swindler. DIDDLES (10) [verb] To cheat; to swindle. | [verb] To have sex with. | [verb] To masturbate (especially of women). DIDDLEY (13) DIEBACK (16) [noun] The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions DIEHARD (12) [noun] A person with such an attitude. | [adjective] Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change. | [adjective] Fanatically opposing progress or reform. DIESELS (8) [noun] A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed. | [noun] A vehicle powered by a diesel engine. | [noun] A rider who has an even energy output, without bursts of speed. DIESTER (8) DIETARY (11) [noun] A regulated diet. | [adjective] Of, or relating to diet. | [adjective] Comprising a food source. DIETERS (8) DIETHER (11) DIETING (9) [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [verb] To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health. | [verb] To eat; to take one's meals. DIFFERS (14) [verb] Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct. | [verb] (people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree. | [verb] To be separated in quantity. DIFFUSE (14) [verb] To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means. | [verb] To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means. | [adjective] Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated. DIGAMMA (13) [noun] Letter of the Old Greek alphabet: Ϝ, ϝ DIGESTS (9) [verb] To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. | [verb] To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. | [verb] To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. DIGGERS (10) [noun] A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator. | [noun] A tool for digging. | [noun] A spade (playing card). DIGGING (11) [verb] To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. | [verb] To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. | [verb] To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. DIGHTED (13) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGITAL (9) [noun] A digital option. | [noun] Digital equipment or technology. | [noun] Short for digital art. DIGLOTS (9) DIGNIFY (15) [verb] To invest with dignity or honour. | [verb] To give distinction to. | [verb] To exalt in rank. DIGNITY (12) [noun] The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character. | [noun] Decorum, formality, stateliness. | [noun] High office, rank, or station. DIGOXIN (16) [noun] A poisonous compound present in the foxglove (Digitalis lanata) and other plants. It is a steroid glycoside and is used in small doses as a cardiac stimulant. DIGRAPH (14) [noun] A directed graph. | [noun] A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character. | [noun] A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme. DIGRESS (9) [verb] To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. | [verb] To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. DIKDIKS (17) DIKTATS (12) [noun] A harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor | [noun] A dogmatic decree, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent DILATED (9) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DILATER (8) DILATES (8) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DILATOR (8) [noun] Any nerve or muscle that causes part of the body to dilate | [noun] Any drug that causes such dilation | [noun] An instrument used to dilate an orifice or cavity DILDOES (9) [noun] An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use. | [noun] An idiot, a bore. | [noun] A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii). DILEMMA (12) [noun] A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable. | [noun] A difficult circumstance or problem. | [noun] A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true". DILLIES (8) [noun] Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. | [noun] A dilly bag. | [noun] A kind of stagecoach. DILUENT (8) [noun] That which dilutes. | [noun] A solvent or other liquid preparation used to dilute a sample prior to testing. | [noun] An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink. DILUTED (9) [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. | [verb] To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares. DILUTER (8) DILUTES (8) [noun] An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. | [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. DILUTOR (8) DILUVIA (11) DIMERIC (12) DIMETER (10) [noun] A line in a poem having two metrical feet. | [noun] A poetic metre in which each line has two feet. DIMMERS (12) [noun] A rheostat that is used to vary the intensity of a domestic electric light | [noun] A switch used to select between the low and high headlamp beam on a road vehicle. (usually as "dimmer switch", primarily in North America; elsewhere "dipswitch" or "dipper switch") DIMMEST (12) [adjective] Not bright or colorful. | [adjective] Not smart or intelligent. | [adjective] Indistinct, hazy or unclear. DIMMING (13) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DIMNESS (10) DIMORPH (15) DIMOUTS (10) DIMPLED (13) [verb] To create a dimple in. | [verb] To create a dimple in one's face by smiling. | [verb] To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities. DIMPLES (12) [noun] A small depression or indentation in a surface. | [noun] Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth. | [verb] To create a dimple in. DIMWITS (13) [noun] A person who is deficient in intelligence. DINDLED (10) DINDLES (9) DINERIC (10) DINEROS (8) DINETTE (8) [noun] A small space within a dwelling, usually alongside a kitchen, used for informal dining; a dining alcove or nook. | [noun] A submarine's mess hall. | [noun] Furniture for an indoor informal dining space, usually consisting of chairs and a small table. DINGBAT (11) [noun] A silly, crazy or stupid person. | [noun] A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc. | [noun] An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars. DINGERS (9) [noun] A bell or chime. | [noun] The suspended clapper of a bell. | [noun] One who rings a bell. DINGEYS (12) DINGIER (9) [adjective] Drab; shabby; dirty; squalid DINGIES (9) DINGILY (12) DINGING (10) [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash; to throw violently. | [verb] To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking. DINGLES (9) [noun] A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley. DINGOES (9) [noun] Canis lupus dingo, a wild dog native to Australia. DINITRO (8) DINKEYS (15) DINKIER (12) [adjective] Tiny and cute; small and attractive. | [adjective] Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable. DINKIES (12) DINKING (13) [verb] To play a soft drop shot. | [verb] To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot. | [verb] To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar. DINKUMS (14) DINNERS (8) [noun] A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea). | [noun] The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. | [noun] An evening meal. DINNING (9) [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. | [verb] To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise. DINTING (9) [verb] To dent. DIOBOLS (10) DIOCESE (10) [noun] Administrative division of the later Roman Empire, starting with the tetrarchy. | [noun] Region administered by a bishop. DIOPTER (10) [noun] A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters. | [noun] The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars. | [noun] Any lens system, such as a telescope. DIOPTRE (10) [noun] A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters. | [noun] The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars. | [noun] Any lens system, such as a telescope. DIORAMA (10) [noun] A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape. DIORITE (8) [noun] A grey intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of plagioclase feldspar, biotite, hornblende and/or pyroxene. DIOXANE (15) [noun] Any of a class of six-membered, saturated heterocycles having four carbon atoms and two oxygen atoms in the ring. DIOXANS (15) DIOXIDE (16) [noun] Any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule. DIOXIDS (16) DIOXINS (15) [noun] Any of a broad range of toxic or carcinogenic halogenated polycyclic compounds that occur as byproducts of herbicides. | [noun] The parent compound, dibenzo-p-dioxin, in which two benzene rings are connected vio two oxygen atoms; oxanthrene. | [noun] The unsaturated six-membered heterocycle having four carbon atoms, two oxygen atoms and two double bonds. DIPHASE (13) DIPLOES (10) DIPLOIC (12) DIPLOID (11) [noun] A cell which is diploid. | [noun] An organism with diploid cells. | [adjective] Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid. DIPLOMA (12) [noun] A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study. DIPLONT (10) DIPNETS (10) [noun] A small net that is equipped with a handle and attached to a rim so that the net forms a pouch. This kind of net is used, eg, for trapping butterflies or individual fish. DIPNOAN (10) DIPODIC (13) DIPOLAR (10) DIPOLES (10) [noun] Any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles) | [noun] Any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges | [noun] A dipole antenna DIPPERS (12) [noun] One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid). | [noun] Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom. | [noun] A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop. DIPPIER (12) [adjective] Lacking common sense. | [adjective] Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about. | [adjective] Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping. DIPPING (13) [verb] To lower into a liquid. | [verb] To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. | [verb] (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly. DIPTERA (10) DIPTYCA (15) DIPTYCH (18) [noun] A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. | [noun] A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges. | [noun] A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church. DIQUATS (17) DIRDUMS (11) DIRECTS (10) [verb] To manage, control, steer. | [verb] To aim (something) at (something else). | [verb] To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. DIREFUL (11) [adjective] Fearful, terrible. DIRHAMS (13) [noun] A unit of currency used in the Arab world, currently the name of the currency of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. | [noun] A former small Turkish unit of weight, variously reckoned as 1.5–3.5 g (0.05–0.12 oz.). DIRKING (13) DIRLING (9) DIRNDLS (9) [noun] A traditional Alpine women's dress having a tight bodice and full skirt DIRTBAG (11) [noun] A dirty, grimy, sleazy, or disreputable person | [noun] (climbing) A poor climber, alpinist, skier or other outdoorsman who lives cheaply, without normal employment, and with few amenities in order to spend as much time on their sport as possible. Used praisingly. DIRTIED (9) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DIRTIER (8) [adjective] Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. | [adjective] That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting. | [adjective] Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually. DIRTIES (8) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DIRTILY (11) DISABLE (10) [verb] To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling. | [verb] (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury. | [verb] To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device). DISARMS (10) [noun] The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry. | [verb] To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. | [verb] To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous DISAVOW (14) [verb] To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. | [verb] To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. DISBAND (11) [verb] To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse. | [verb] To loose the bands of; to set free. | [verb] To divorce. DISBARS (10) [verb] To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such. | [verb] To exclude (a person) from something. DISBUDS (11) [verb] To remove buds from a plant in order to promote growth and health in the remaining buds. | [verb] To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns. DISCANT (10) DISCARD (11) [noun] Anything discarded. | [noun] A discarded playing card in a card game. | [noun] A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. DISCASE (10) DISCEPT (12) DISCERN (10) [verb] To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. | [verb] To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry. | [verb] To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate. DISCING (11) DISCOED (11) [verb] To dance disco-style dances. | [verb] To go to discotheques. DISCOID (11) [noun] A disk-shaped dental excavator designed to remove the carious dentin of a decayed tooth | [adjective] Shaped like a disc/disk. DISCORD (11) [noun] Lack of concord, agreement or harmony. | [noun] Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension. | [noun] An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance. DISCUSS (10) [verb] To converse or debate concerning a particular topic. | [verb] To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.). | [verb] To break to pieces; to shatter. DISDAIN (9) [noun] A feeling of contempt or scorn. | [noun] That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion. | [noun] The state of being despised; shame. DISEASE (8) [noun] An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. | [noun] (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc. | [noun] Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. DISEUSE (8) DISGUST (9) [noun] An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty. | [verb] To cause an intense dislike for something. DISHELM (13) DISHFUL (14) DISHIER (11) [adjective] Attractive; good-looking; sexy. | [adjective] Tending to relay information and gossip. DISHING (12) DISHPAN (13) [noun] A large basin or pan with a flat bottom in which dishes are washed. DISHRAG (12) [noun] A piece of cloth used for washing dishes. | [noun] An unclean person; used in similes. DISJECT (17) DISJOIN (15) [verb] To separate; to disunite. | [verb] To become separated. DISKING (13) DISLIKE (12) [noun] An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to). | [noun] An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet. DISLIMN (10) DISMALS (10) DISMAST (10) [verb] To break off the mast (of a ship), especially by gunfire. DISMAYS (13) [verb] To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy | [verb] To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. | [verb] To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. DISMISS (10) [verb] To discharge; to end the employment or service of. | [verb] To order to leave. | [verb] To dispel; to rid one’s mind of. DISOBEY (13) [verb] To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody). | [verb] To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey. DISOMIC (12) DISOWNS (11) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DISPART (10) DISPELS (10) [noun] An act or instance of dispelling. | [verb] To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering. | [verb] To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified. DISPEND (11) DISPLAY (13) [noun] A show or spectacle. | [noun] A piece of work to be presented visually. | [noun] An electronic screen that shows graphics or text. DISPORT (10) [noun] Anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game, a pastime, a sport. | [noun] Amusement, entertainment, recreation, relaxation. | [noun] The way one carries oneself; bearing, carriage, deportment. DISPOSE (10) [noun] The disposal or management of something. | [noun] Behaviour; disposition. | [verb] (used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something. DISPUTE (10) [noun] An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree. | [noun] Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate. | [verb] To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another DISRATE (8) [verb] To lower a rate or rating | [verb] To demote a sailor to a lower rank DISROBE (10) [verb] To undress someone or something. | [verb] To undress oneself. DISROOT (8) DISRUPT (10) [verb] To throw into confusion or disorder. | [verb] To interrupt or impede. | [verb] To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market. DISSAVE (11) DISSEAT (8) DISSECT (10) [verb] To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy. | [verb] To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly. | [verb] To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts. DISSENT (8) [noun] Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion. | [noun] An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority. | [noun] (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case DISSERT (8) DISSING (9) [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. DISTAFF (14) [noun] A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist. | [noun] The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun. | [noun] Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only. DISTAIN (8) DISTANT (8) [adjective] Far off (physically, logically or mentally). | [adjective] Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings. DISTEND (9) [verb] To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell | [verb] To extend; to stretch out; to spread out. | [verb] To cause to swell. DISTENT (8) DISTICH (13) [noun] A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense. | [noun] Any couplet. | [adjective] Distichous. DISTILL (8) [verb] To subject a substance to distillation. | [verb] To undergo or be produced by distillation. | [verb] To make by means of distillation, especially whisky. DISTILS (8) [verb] To subject to distillation. | [verb] To undergo or be produced by distillation. | [verb] To make by means of distillation, especially whisky. DISTOME (10) DISTORT (8) [verb] To bring something out of shape, to misshape. | [verb] To become misshapen. | [verb] To give a false or misleading account of DISTURB (10) [noun] Disturbance | [verb] To confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids. | [verb] To divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing. DISUSED (9) [verb] To cease the use of. | [verb] To disaccustom. | [adjective] No longer in use. DISUSES (8) DISYOKE (15) DITCHED (14) [verb] To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained. | [verb] To discard or abandon. | [verb] To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. DITCHER (13) DITCHES (13) [noun] Dirt ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc. | [verb] To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained. | [noun] A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. DITHERS (11) [verb] To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold. | [verb] To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something. | [verb] To do something nervously. DITHERY (14) DITHIOL (11) DITSIER (8) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DITTANY (11) [noun] A labiate plant, Origanum dictamnus, formerly renowned for its medicinal properties; dittany of Crete. | [noun] A fragrant plant in the rue family, Dictamnus albus | [noun] A fragrant herb in the mint family native to the eastern US, Cunila origanoides DITTIES (8) [noun] A short verse or tune. | [noun] A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated. DITTOED (9) DITZIER (17) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DIURNAL (8) [noun] A flower that opens only in the day. | [noun] A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins. | [noun] A diary or journal. DIURONS (8) DIVERGE (12) [verb] (of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path). DIVERSE (11) [adjective] Consisting of many different elements; various. | [adjective] Different; dissimilar; distinct; not the same | [adjective] Capable of various forms; multiform. DIVERTS (11) [verb] To turn aside from a course. | [verb] To distract. | [verb] To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) DIVESTS (11) [verb] To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | [verb] To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | [verb] To undress. DIVIDED (13) [verb] To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. | [verb] To share (something) by dividing it. | [verb] (with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend). DIVIDER (12) [noun] An object that separates. | [noun] A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length. | [noun] The median or central reservation of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated. DIVIDES (12) [noun] A thing that divides. | [noun] An act of dividing. | [noun] A distancing between two people or things. DIVINED (12) [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. | [verb] To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight. | [verb] To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod. DIVINER (11) [noun] One who foretells the future. | [noun] One who divines or conjectures. | [noun] One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod. DIVINES (11) [noun] One skilled in divinity; a theologian. | [noun] A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. | [noun] (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. DIVISOR (11) [noun] A number or expression that another is to be divided by. | [noun] An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times. DIVORCE (13) [noun] The legal dissolution of a marriage. | [noun] A separation of connected things. | [noun] That which separates. DIVULGE (12) [verb] To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known | [verb] To indicate publicly; to proclaim. DIVVIED (15) [verb] To divide into portions. DIVVIES (14) [noun] A dividend. | [noun] A stupid person; someone of low intelligence. | [noun] A dividend; a share or portion. DIZENED (18) DIZZIED (27) [verb] To make dizzy, to bewilder. DIZZIER (26) [adjective] Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded. | [adjective] Producing giddiness. | [adjective] Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy. DIZZIES (26) [verb] To make dizzy, to bewilder. DIZZILY (29) DJEBELS (17) [noun] A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa). DOATING (9) DOBBERS (12) DOBBIES (12) [noun] A device in some looms that allows the weaving of small geometric patterns. | [noun] The patterns so woven, or the fabric containing the patterns. | [noun] An evil or mischievous fairy or ghost sometimes said to haunt a building or household. DOBBINS (12) [noun] An old jaded horse. | [noun] Sea gravel mixed with sand. | [noun] Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. DOBLONS (10) DOBSONS (10) DOCENTS (10) [noun] A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.) | [noun] A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc. DOCETIC (12) DOCKAGE (15) [noun] The act of docking. | [noun] A charge levied for docking. DOCKERS (14) [noun] One who performs docking, as of tails. | [noun] A dockworker. DOCKETS (14) [noun] A summary; a brief digest. | [noun] A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register. | [noun] A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court. DOCKING (15) [verb] To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy. | [verb] To reduce (wages); to deduct from. | [verb] To cut off, bar, or destroy. DOCTORS (10) [noun] A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK. | [noun] A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university. | [noun] A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals. DODDERS (10) [verb] To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter. | [noun] Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. DODDERY (13) [adjective] Doddering, trembly, shaky. DODGEMS (12) [noun] A bumper car in an amusement park. DODGERS (10) [noun] Someone who dodges. | [noun] A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat. | [noun] An advertising leaflet; a flyer. DODGERY (13) DODGIER (10) [adjective] Evasive and shifty | [adjective] Unsound and unreliable | [adjective] Dishonest DODGING (11) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DODOISM (11) DOESKIN (12) [noun] Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep. | [noun] The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather. DOFFERS (14) DOFFING (15) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOGBANE (11) [noun] Any species of genus Apocynum, eponymous of the dogbane family Apocynaceae DOGCART (11) [noun] A cart drawn by a dog. | [noun] A two wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs. DOGDOMS (12) DOGEARS (9) DOGEDOM (12) DOGFACE (14) [noun] A foot soldier, especially during World War II. | [noun] An ugly person. | [noun] Either of two pierid butterflies of the New World genus Zerene. DOGFISH (15) [noun] Any of various small sharks | [noun] The bowfin, Amia calva. DOGGERS (10) [noun] A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. | [noun] A participant in the sexual activity of dogging. DOGGERY (13) DOGGIER (10) [adjective] Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog. | [adjective] Fond of dogs. DOGGIES (10) [noun] A dog, especially a small one. | [noun] Doggy style | [noun] (armed services) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer. DOGGING (11) [verb] To pursue with the intent to catch. | [verb] To follow in an annoying or harassing way. | [verb] To fasten a hatch securely. DOGGISH (13) [adjective] Currish, resembling a mongrel dog, notably in its worst qualities | [adjective] Stylish in a showy way DOGGONE (10) [adjective] Damned by God. | [adjective] Used as an intensifier expressing anger. DOGGREL (10) DOGLEGS (10) [noun] A sharp bend in the fairway (before the hole) | [noun] A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards. | [noun] A sharp bend in a canyon or ravine. DOGLIKE (13) DOGMATA (11) DOGNAPS (11) [verb] To abduct (a dog). DOGSLED (10) [noun] A sled, pulled by dogs over ice and snow. | [verb] To ride on a dogsled | [verb] To race dogsleds DOGTROT (9) [noun] A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog. | [noun] A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house. | [noun] A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. DOGVANE (12) DOGWOOD (13) [noun] Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel | [noun] The wood of such trees and shrubs. | [noun] A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world. DOILIES (8) [noun] A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food. | [noun] An old kind of woollen material. DOLEFUL (11) [adjective] Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness. DOLLARS (8) [noun] Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $. | [noun] (by extension) Money generally. | [noun] A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more. DOLLIED (9) [verb] To hit a dolly. | [verb] To move (an object) using a dolly. | [verb] To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly. DOLLIES (8) [noun] A doll. | [noun] A contrivance for stirring: | [noun] A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. DOLLING (9) DOLLISH (11) DOLLOPS (10) [noun] A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food. DOLMANS (10) [noun] A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks. | [noun] A short, close-fitting, heavily braided military jacket, usually worn under a pelisse, originally by hussars. | [noun] A woman's garment with wide capelike sleeves. DOLMENS (10) [noun] A prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow. | [noun] More generally, any megalithic tomb, including passage graves and wedge tombs. DOLOURS (8) [noun] A painful grief or suffering. DOLPHIN (13) [noun] A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of order Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans. | [noun] A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, Coryphaena hippurus, with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration. | [noun] A depiction of a fish, with a broad indented fin, usually embowed. | [noun] A man-made semi submerged maritime structure, usually installed to provide a fixed structure for temporary mooring, to prevent ships from drifting to shallow water or to serve as base for navigational aids. DOLTISH (11) [adjective] Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid. DOMAINS (10) [noun] A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization. | [noun] A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise. | [noun] A group of related items, topics, or subjects. DOMICAL (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, resembling or having a dome DOMICIL (12) [noun] A home or residence. | [noun] A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. DOMINES (10) DOMINIE (10) [noun] A schoolmaster, teacher. | [noun] A pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. DOMINOS (10) DONATED (9) [verb] To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. | [adjective] Having been given freely rather than purchased. DONATES (8) [verb] To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. DONATOR (8) DONGOLA (9) DONJONS (15) [noun] The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep. DONKEYS (15) [noun] A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse | [noun] A stubborn person | [noun] A fool DONNEES (8) DONNERD (9) DONNERT (8) DONNING (9) [verb] (clothing) To put on, to dress in. DONNISH (11) [adjective] Characteristic of a (university) don | [adjective] (of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical. DONZELS (17) DOODADS (10) [noun] A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall); especially an unspecified gadget, device, or part. DOODLED (10) [verb] To draw or scribble aimlessly. | [verb] To drone like a bagpipe. DOODLER (9) DOODLES (9) [noun] A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person. | [noun] A small mindless sketch, etc. | [noun] (sometimes childish) Penis. DOOLEES (8) DOOLIES (8) DOOMFUL (13) DOOMILY (13) DOOMING (11) [verb] To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn. | [verb] To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of. | [verb] To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. DOORMAN (10) [noun] A person who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services. DOORMAT (10) [noun] A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes. | [noun] Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes. DOORMEN (10) [noun] A person who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element of security; in apartment buildings, he also accepts deliveries and may perform certain concierge type services. DOORWAY (14) [noun] The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room. DOOZERS (17) DOOZIES (17) [noun] Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense. DOPANTS (10) [noun] A substance added in small amounts to a pure material, such as semiconductor, to alter its original electrical or optical properties; a doping agent DOPIEST (10) [adjective] Stupid, silly. DORADOS (9) [noun] Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration. DORBUGS (11) DORHAWK (18) DORKIER (12) [adjective] Like a dork. DORMANT (10) [noun] A crossbeam or joist. | [adjective] Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended. | [adjective] In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant. DORMERS (10) [noun] A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof | [noun] Dormer-window | [noun] A resident of a dormitory DORMICE (12) [noun] Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by some taxonomists. | [noun] Glis glis, the edible dormouse | [noun] Muscardinus avellanarius, the hazel dormouse. DORMINS (10) DORNECK (14) DORNICK (14) DORNOCK (14) DORPERS (10) DORSALS (8) DORSELS (8) DORSERS (8) DOSAGES (9) [noun] The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing. | [noun] The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine. | [noun] The measured amount so administered or added; the dose. DOSSALS (8) [noun] A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc. DOSSELS (8) DOSSERS (8) [noun] Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work. | [noun] A homeless and jobless person. | [noun] One who lodges in a doss-house. DOSSIER (8) [noun] A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content. DOSSILS (8) DOSSING (9) [verb] To avoid work, shirk, etc. | [verb] To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless DOTAGES (9) [noun] Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility. | [noun] Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree. | [noun] Foolish utterance(s); drivel. DOTARDS (9) [noun] An old person with impaired intellect; one in his or her dotage. | [noun] One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness. DOTIEST (8) DOTTELS (8) DOTTERS (8) DOTTIER (8) [adjective] Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile. | [adjective] Having an unsteady gait. | [adjective] Having many dots. DOTTILY (11) DOTTING (9) [verb] To cover with small spots (of some liquid). | [verb] To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to. | [verb] To mark by means of dots or small spots. DOTTLES (8) [noun] A plug or tap of a vessel. | [noun] A small rounded lump or mass. | [noun] The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe. DOTTREL (8) DOUBLED (11) [verb] To multiply by two. | [verb] To fold over so as to make two folds. | [verb] To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. DOUBLER (10) DOUBLES (10) [noun] Twice the number, amount, size, etc. | [noun] A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes | [noun] A drink with two portions of alcohol. DOUBLET (10) [noun] A pair of two similar or equal things; couple. | [noun] One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). | [noun] In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event. | [noun] A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s. DOUBTED (11) [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. | [verb] To harbour suspicion about; suspect. | [verb] To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend. DOUBTER (10) [noun] One who doubts. DOUCELY (13) DOUCEUR (10) [noun] Sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness. | [noun] Sweet speech: a compliment. | [noun] A sweetener: a gift offered to sweeten another's attitude, a tip or bribe. DOUCHED (14) [verb] To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse | [verb] To use a douche. DOUCHES (13) [noun] A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation. | [noun] Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe. | [noun] A jet or spray of any liquid. DOUGHTY (15) [noun] A person who is bold or brave. | [adjective] Bold; brave, courageous. DOURAHS (11) DOUREST (8) DOURINE (8) DOUSERS (8) DOUSING (9) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOVECOT (13) [noun] A dovecote. DOVEKEY (18) DOVEKIE (15) [noun] A small black and white seabird, of the genus Alle, of the north Atlantic; the little auk. DOVENED (12) DOWABLE (13) DOWAGER (12) [noun] A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband | [noun] Any lady of dignified bearing DOWDIER (12) [adjective] Plain and unfashionable in style or dress. | [adjective] Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby. DOWDIES (12) DOWDILY (15) DOWELED (12) [verb] To fasten together with dowels. | [verb] To furnish with dowels. DOWERED (12) [verb] To give a dower or dowry. | [verb] To endow. DOWNERS (11) [noun] A negative drug trip. | [noun] A drug that has depressant qualities. | [noun] Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy. DOWNIER (11) [adjective] Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | [adjective] Sharp-witted, perceptive. DOWNING (12) [verb] To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell. | [verb] To lower; to put (something) down. | [verb] To defeat; to overpower. DOWRIES (11) [noun] Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. | [noun] Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price. | [noun] Dower. DOWSERS (11) DOWSING (12) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOYENNE (11) [noun] A female doyen. | [noun] The senior or eldest female member of a group, especially one who is most or highly respected. | [noun] A woman who is highly experienced and knowledgeable in a particular field, subject, or line of work; expert DOYLEYS (14) DOYLIES (11) DOZENED (18) DOZENTH (20) [noun] A twelfth. | [adjective] Twelfth. DOZIEST (17) [adjective] Quite sleepy or tired. | [adjective] Intellectually slow. | [adjective] Decaying, rotten, spongy. DRABBED (13) DRABBER (12) [noun] A hair product that works against natural colour to make the hair more drab. | [noun] One who associates with drabs; a wencher. DRABBET (12) DRABBLE (12) [verb] To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud. | [verb] To fish with a long line and rod. | [noun] A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long. DRACHMA (15) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. DRACHMS (15) [noun] A small unit of weight, variously: | [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. DRAFTED (12) [verb] To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch. | [verb] To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing. | [verb] To write a law. DRAFTEE (11) [noun] One who is drafted (into a military service, etc) DRAFTER (11) DRAGEES (9) [noun] A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc. DRAGGED (11) [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [verb] To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. | [verb] To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant. DRAGGER (10) [noun] Something that drags. | [noun] A trawler. | [noun] One who takes part in drag racing. DRAGGLE (10) [verb] To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground DRAGNET (9) [noun] A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. | [noun] (law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. | [verb] To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. DRAGONS (9) [noun] A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. | [noun] An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance: | [noun] (with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco. DRAGOON (9) [noun] A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted. | [noun] A carrier of a dragon musket. | [noun] A variety of pigeon. DRAINED (9) [verb] To lose liquid. | [verb] To flow gradually. | [verb] To cause liquid to flow out of. DRAINER (8) [noun] That which drains. | [noun] A frame or rack for allowing washed crockery etc to dry naturally. | [noun] A person who explores drains, tunnels, or sewers. DRAMEDY (14) [noun] A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy. | [noun] A film or television programme belonging to this genre. DRAMMED (13) DRAPERS (10) [noun] One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths. DRAPERY (13) [noun] Cloth draped gracefully in folds. | [noun] A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape. | [noun] The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. DRAPING (11) [verb] To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery | [verb] To spread over, cover. | [verb] To rail at; to banter. DRASTIC (10) [noun] A powerful, fast-acting purgative medicine. | [adjective] Having a strong or far-reaching effect; extreme, severe. | [adjective] Acting rapidly or violently. DRATTED (9) [verb] To damn or curse. | [adjective] Expressing annoyance or irritation towards the mentioned thing. DRAUGHT (12) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DRAWBAR (13) [noun] An open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. | [noun] A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. | [noun] A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull. DRAWEES (11) [noun] The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque. DRAWERS (11) [noun] An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. | [noun] A side panel containing supplementary content. | [noun] Agent noun of draw; one who draws. | [noun] Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches. DRAWING (12) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. | [noun] A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper. DRAWLED (12) [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. | [verb] To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. DRAWLER (11) DRAYAGE (12) DRAYING (12) DRAYMAN (13) [noun] A man who drives drays. | [noun] A deliveryman for a brewery. DRAYMEN (13) [noun] A man who drives drays. | [noun] A deliveryman for a brewery. DREADED (10) [verb] To fear greatly. | [verb] To anticipate with fear. | [verb] To be in dread, or great fear. DREAMED (11) [verb] To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. | [verb] To hope, to wish. | [verb] To daydream. DREAMER (10) [noun] One who dreams. | [noun] Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic. | [noun] Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae. DREDGED (11) [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. | [verb] To bring something to the surface with a dredge. | [verb] (Usually with up) to unearth. DREDGER (10) [noun] A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed. | [noun] One who fishes with a dredge. | [noun] A dredging machine. DREDGES (10) [noun] Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: | [noun] Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. | [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. DREEING (9) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DREIDEL (9) [noun] A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ, ג, ה, and ש or פ on each side, associated with and often used during Hanukkah. | [noun] A gambling game played using this top. DREIDLS (9) [noun] A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ, ג, ה, and ש or פ on each side, associated with and often used during Hanukkah. | [noun] A gambling game played using this top. DRESSED (9) [verb] To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). | [verb] To clothe oneself; to put on clothes. | [verb] To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game. DRESSER (8) [noun] An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils. | [noun] An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror. | [noun] One who dresses in a particular way. DRESSES (8) [noun] An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist. | [noun] Apparel, clothing. | [noun] The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. DRIBBED (13) DRIBBLE (12) [noun] Drool; saliva. | [noun] A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle. | [noun] A small amount of a liquid. DRIBBLY (15) DRIBLET (10) [noun] A small portion or part. | [noun] A small or petty sum. DRIFTED (12) [verb] To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc. | [verb] To move haphazardly without any destination. | [verb] To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel. DRIFTER (11) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who moves from place to place or job to job. | [noun] A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker. | [noun] A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires. DRILLED (9) [verb] To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool). | [verb] To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context. | [verb] To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts. DRILLER (8) DRINKER (12) [noun] Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks. | [noun] Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis. | [noun] A device from which animals can drink. DRIPPED (13) [verb] To fall one drop at a time. | [verb] To leak slowly. | [verb] To let fall in drops. DRIPPER (12) DRIVELS (11) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense | [noun] Saliva, drool | [noun] A fool; an idiot. DRIVERS (11) [noun] One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. DRIVING (12) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. | [verb] To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. | [verb] To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force. | [noun] The action of the verb to drive in any sense. DRIZZLE (26) [noun] Light rain. | [noun] Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. | [noun] Water. DRIZZLY (29) DROGUES (9) [noun] (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. | [noun] A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. | [noun] A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute. DROLLED (9) DROLLER (8) [adjective] Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish. | [noun] A jester. DROMOND (11) [noun] A Byzantine bireme, similar to the chelandion, but used primarily for naval combat. DROMONS (10) DRONERS (8) DRONGOS (9) [noun] Any bird of the family Dicruridae. | [noun] A fool, an idiot, a stupid fellow. DRONING (9) [verb] To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft. | [verb] To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. | [verb] To speak in a monotone way. DRONISH (11) DROOLED (9) [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. | [verb] To secrete any substance in a similar way. | [verb] To react to something with uncontrollable desire. DROOPED (11) [verb] To hang downward; to sag. | [verb] To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. | [verb] To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. DROPLET (10) [noun] A very small drop. DROPOUT (10) [noun] Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course | [noun] Someone who has opted out of conventional society. | [noun] One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. DROPPED (13) [verb] To fall in droplets (of a liquid). | [verb] To drip (a liquid). | [verb] Generally, to fall (straight down). DROPPER (12) [noun] A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time. | [noun] One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief. | [noun] A software component designed to install malware on a target system. DROSERA (8) [noun] Any of several carnivorous, flowering plants of the genus Drosera. DROSHKY (18) [noun] An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia. DROSSES (8) DROUGHT (12) [noun] A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. | [noun] (by extension) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. DROUKED (13) DROUTHS (11) [noun] A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. | [noun] (by extension) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. DROUTHY (14) [adjective] Droughty, dry. | [adjective] Thirsty. DROVERS (11) DROVING (12) [verb] To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance. | [verb] To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. DROWNDS (12) DROWNED (12) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWNER (11) DROWSED (12) [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. | [verb] To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) DROWSES (11) [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. | [verb] To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) DRUBBED (13) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DRUBBER (12) DRUDGED (11) [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DRUDGER (10) DRUDGES (10) [noun] A person who works in a low servile job. | [noun] Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. DRUGGED (11) [verb] To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent. | [verb] To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone. | [verb] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. DRUGGET (10) [noun] An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing. | [noun] A floor covering made of drugget. DRUGGIE (10) [noun] A drug addict or abuser. DRUIDIC (11) DRUMBLE (12) DRUMLIN (10) [noun] An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift. DRUMMED (13) DRUMMER (12) [noun] One who plays the drums. | [noun] Travelling salesman | [noun] A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg). DRUNKEN (12) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. | [verb] To make or become drunk or drunken; intoxicate DRUNKER (12) [adjective] Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages. | [adjective] Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication. | [adjective] (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened. DRYABLE (13) DRYADES (12) DRYADIC (14) DRYLAND (12) [noun] Land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert. DRYLOTS (11) DRYNESS (11) [noun] A lack of moisture. | [noun] The degree to which something is dry. DRYWALL (14) [noun] A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings. | [noun] A wall made of this. | [noun] A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement. DUALISM (10) [noun] Duality; the condition of being double. | [noun] The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil. | [noun] The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual. DUALIST (8) DUALITY (11) [noun] A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts. | [noun] (projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes. | [noun] The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system. DUALIZE (17) [verb] To make dual, to find or consider the dual item of a given one. DUBBERS (12) DUBBING (13) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUBBINS (12) [noun] A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof. DUBIETY (13) [noun] Doubtfulness. | [noun] A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty. DUBIOUS (10) [adjective] (of a statement) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion. | [adjective] (of a person) In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided. DUCALLY (13) DUCHESS (13) [noun] The wife or widow of a duke. | [noun] The female ruler of a duchy. | [verb] To court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously. DUCHIES (13) [noun] A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess. (A grand duchy may be a self-governing state. A simple duchy tends to be a part of a larger kingdom or empire.) DUCKERS (14) DUCKIER (14) DUCKIES (14) [noun] A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck | [noun] An affectionate pet name. DUCKING (15) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [adjective] Fucking (as intensifier) DUCKPIN (16) [noun] A short, squat form of tenpin. DUCTILE (10) [adjective] Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking. | [adjective] Molded easily into a new form. | [adjective] Led easily; prone to follow. DUCTING (11) [verb] To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts). | [noun] Ductwork DUCTULE (10) [noun] Any very small duct, typically lactiferous. DUDEENS (9) [noun] A short-stemmed Irish pipe made out of clay. DUDGEON (10) [noun] A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree. | [noun] A hilt made of this wood. | [noun] A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt. | [noun] A feeling of anger or resentment. DUELERS (8) [noun] A person who fights a duel DUELING (9) [verb] To engage in a battle. | [noun] Act of taking part in a duel. DUELIST (8) [noun] A person who fights a duel. DUELLED (9) [verb] To engage in a battle. DUELLER (8) [noun] A person who fights a duel DUELLOS (8) [noun] A duel. DUENDES (9) [noun] A small, mischievous humanoid creature in Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Latin American, and Philippine folklore/mythology; an imp. | [noun] Personal charm. DUENESS (8) DUENNAS (8) [noun] A chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman. | [noun] A governess or nanny. DUETTED (9) DUFFELS (14) DUFFERS (14) [noun] An incompetent or clumsy person. | [noun] A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs. | [noun] A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods. DUFFLES (14) DUGONGS (10) [noun] A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions. DUGOUTS (9) [noun] A canoe made from a hollowed-out log. | [noun] A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire. | [noun] A sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game. DUIKERS (12) [noun] Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily. DUKEDOM (15) [noun] A region ruled by a duke or duchess; a duchy. | [noun] The rank or title of a duke. DULCETS (10) DULCIFY (16) [verb] To sweeten the taste of. | [verb] To make sweeter or more pleasant. | [verb] To neutralise the acidity of. DULLARD (9) [noun] A stupid person; a fool. DULLEST (8) [adjective] Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp. | [adjective] Boring; not exciting or interesting. | [adjective] Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness. DULLING (9) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DULLISH (11) DULNESS (8) [noun] The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity. | [noun] The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome. | [noun] Lack of interest or excitement. DUMBEST (12) [adjective] Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind"). | [adjective] Silent; unaccompanied by words. | [adjective] (especially of a person) Extremely stupid. DUMBING (13) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMDUMS (13) [noun] A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound. | [noun] An ignorant person; an idiot. DUMMIED (13) [verb] To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality. | [verb] To feint. DUMMIES (12) [noun] A silent person; a person who does not talk. | [noun] An unintelligent person. | [noun] A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. DUMPERS (12) [noun] A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites. | [noun] A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites. | [noun] One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship. DUMPIER (12) [adjective] Short and thick; stout or stocky DUMPILY (15) DUMPING (13) [verb] To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. | [verb] To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. | [verb] To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. DUMPISH (15) DUNCHES (13) DUNCISH (13) DUNGEON (9) [noun] An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle. | [noun] The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon. | [noun] A shrewd person. DUNGIER (9) DUNGING (10) [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. | [verb] To release dung: to defecate. DUNITES (8) DUNITIC (10) DUNKERS (12) [noun] Someone who dunks. | [noun] A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks. | [noun] A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea. DUNKING (13) [noun] The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool. | [noun] Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above. DUNLINS (8) [noun] A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint. DUNNAGE (9) [noun] Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet. | [noun] Personal effects; baggage. DUNNESS (8) DUNNEST (8) DUNNING (9) [verb] To ask or beset a debtor for payment. | [verb] To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. DUNNITE (8) DUNTING (9) [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. DUODENA (9) [noun] The first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum. DUOLOGS (9) DUOPOLY (13) [noun] A market situation in which two companies exclusively provide a particular product or service. | [noun] (by extension) The domination of a field of endeavor by two people or entities. | [noun] (by extension) Situation in which two or more TV or radio-stations in the same city or community share common ownership. DUOTONE (8) [noun] Any picture printed in two shades of the same colour, such as a duotype or duograph. DUPABLE (12) DUPPING (13) DURABLE (10) [noun] A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year. | [adjective] Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring. DURABLY (13) DURAMEN (10) [noun] Heartwood DURANCE (10) [noun] Duration. | [noun] Endurance. | [noun] Imprisonment; forced confinement. DURBARS (10) [noun] A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India. | [noun] An audience chamber. | [noun] The body of officials at a native court. DURIANS (8) [noun] Any of several trees, genus Durio, of Southeast Asia. | [noun] The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor. | [noun] A yellow colour, like that of durian flesh (also called durian yellow). DURIONS (8) DURMAST (10) DURNING (9) DURRIES (8) [noun] A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet. DUSKIER (12) [adjective] Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening). | [adjective] Having a shade of color that is rather dark. | [adjective] Dark-skinned. DUSKILY (15) DUSKING (13) [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. | [verb] To make dusk. DUSKISH (15) DUSTBIN (10) [noun] A bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected; a garbage can. DUSTERS (8) [noun] An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc. | [noun] Someone who dusts. | [noun] A light, loose-fitting long coat. DUSTIER (8) [adjective] Covered with dust. | [adjective] Powdery and resembling dust. | [adjective] Grey in parts. DUSTILY (11) DUSTING (9) [verb] To remove dust from. | [verb] To remove dust; to clean by removing dust. | [verb] Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth. DUSTMAN (10) [noun] A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed. DUSTMEN (10) [noun] A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed. DUSTOFF (14) DUSTPAN (10) [noun] A flat scoop with a short handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom. DUSTRAG (9) DUSTUPS (10) [noun] A scuffle or fight. | [noun] (by extension) An argument or dispute. DUTEOUS (8) [adjective] Dutiful | [adjective] Obsequious; submissively obedient. DUTIFUL (11) [adjective] Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint. | [adjective] Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty. DUUMVIR (13) [noun] One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome. DUVETYN (14) DWARFED (15) [verb] To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version). | [verb] To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny. | [verb] To make appear insignificant. DWARFER (14) DWARVES (14) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DWELLED (12) [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). | [verb] To be in a given state. DWELLER (11) [noun] An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen. DWINDLE (12) [verb] To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. | [verb] To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. | [verb] To lessen; to bring low. DWINING (12) DYADICS (14) DYARCHY (19) [noun] Rule by two people. | [noun] A state under the rule of two people. DYBBUKS (19) [noun] A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. DYEABLE (13) DYEINGS (12) DYEWEED (15) DYEWOOD (15) DYNAMIC (15) [noun] A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior. | [noun] A moving force. | [noun] The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness. DYNAMOS (13) [noun] An electricity generator, a dynamo-electric machine. | [noun] An energetic person. DYNASTS (11) [noun] A ruler or governor, especially a hereditary ruler or someone who founded or is part of a dynasty. 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DABBLERS (13) DABBLING (14) [verb] To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble. | [verb] To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle. | [verb] To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DABCHICK (22) [noun] The little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis. DABSTERS (11) DACKERED (16) DACTYLIC (16) [noun] A dactylic verse. | [adjective] Of or consisting of dactyls. DACTYLUS (14) DADAISMS (12) DADAISTS (10) DADDLING (12) DAEMONIC (13) DAFFIEST (15) [adjective] Somewhat mad or eccentric. DAFFODIL (16) [noun] A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. | [noun] A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil. | [adjective] Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil. 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DAISHIKI (16) DAKERHEN (16) DALAPONS (11) DALESMAN (11) [noun] A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland. DALESMEN (11) [noun] A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland. DALLIERS (9) DALLYING (13) [verb] To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle. | [verb] To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet | [verb] To delay unnecessarily; to while away. DALMATIC (13) [adjective] Related to Dalmatia and its language and culture; Dalmatian. | [noun] A long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and is worn by a deacon at the Eucharist or Mass and, although infrequently, by bishops as an undergarment above the alb. DALTONIC (11) DAMAGERS (12) DAMAGING (13) [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. | [verb] To undergo damage. | [noun] An act of causing damage. 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DANDLERS (10) DANDLING (11) [verb] To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. | [verb] To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. | [verb] To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. DANDRIFF (16) DANDRUFF (16) [noun] Scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis. | [verb] To fall or cover with white flakes, like dandruff. DANDYISH (16) DANDYISM (15) DANEGELD (11) DANEWEED (13) DANEWORT (12) [noun] A European dwarf version of the elder, Sambucus ebulus, that has a bad smell DANGERED (11) DANGLERS (10) DANGLING (11) [verb] To hang loosely with the ability to swing. | [verb] The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string. | [verb] To hang or trail something loosely. DANKNESS (13) DANSEURS (9) DANSEUSE (9) [noun] Female dancer DAPHNIAS (14) DAPPERER (13) DAPPERLY (16) DAPPLING (14) [verb] To mark or become marked with mottling or spots. | [noun] A dappled pattern. DAPSONES (11) DARINGLY (13) DARIOLES (9) [noun] A dessert consisting of puff pastry filled with almond cream, baked in an oven. DARKENED (14) [verb] To make dark or darker by reducing light. | [verb] To become dark or darker (having less light). | [verb] To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud). DARKENER (13) DARKLIER (13) DARKLING (14) [noun] A creature that lives in the dark. | [adverb] In the dark; in obscurity. | [verb] To be dark; to be visible only darkly. DARKNESS (13) [noun] The state of being dark; lack of light. | [noun] Gloom. | [noun] The product of being dark. DARKROOM (15) [noun] A dark room, where photographs are developed. | [noun] A darkened room where sexual activity can take place, especially one in a gay club. DARKSOME (15) [adjective] Characterised by darkness; gloomy; obscure DARLINGS (10) [noun] A person who is dear to one. | [noun] A kind or sweet person; sweetheart. | [noun] An affectionate term of address. DARNDEST (10) DARNEDER (10) DARNINGS (10) DARSHANS (12) [noun] Hierophany, theophany; being in the presence of the divine or holy (as a person or object). DARTLING (10) DASHEENS (12) [noun] Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant. DASHIEST (12) DASHIKIS (16) [noun] A loose and brightly-colored African shirt. DASHPOTS (14) [noun] A mechanical damping device consisting of a piston that moves through a viscous fluid (usually oil); used, in conjunction with a spring, in shock absorbers. DASTARDS (10) [noun] A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak. DASYURES (12) [noun] Any of various Australasian carnivorous marsupials, of the family Dasyuridae, which include the marsupial equivalent to cats DATABANK (15) [noun] A database (collection of organized information in a regular structure) | [noun] An organization dedicated to maintaining a database. DATABASE (11) [noun] (general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer. | [noun] A set of tables in a database(1). | [noun] A software program for storing, retrieving and manipulating a database(1). DATARIES (9) DATEABLE (11) [adjective] That may be ascribed a date or age. | [adjective] Suitable for dating (romantic outings). DATELESS (9) [adjective] Out of one's head; deranged. | [adjective] Thick-headed | [adjective] Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated. DATELINE (9) [noun] A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters. | [verb] To attach a dateline to a particular document DATIVELY (15) DAUBIEST (11) DAUBRIES (11) DAUGHTER (13) [noun] One’s female offspring. | [noun] A female descendant. | [noun] A daughter language. DAUNDERS (10) DAUNTERS (9) DAUNTING (10) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. | [noun] Present participle of daunt. DAUPHINE (14) DAUPHINS (14) [noun] The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois. | [noun] Allegorical An eldest son. DAVENING (13) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAWDLERS (13) DAWDLING (14) [verb] To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time. | [verb] To spend (time) without haste or purpose. | [verb] To move or walk lackadaisically. DAWNLIKE (16) DAYBOOKS (18) [noun] A daily chronicle; a diary. | [noun] (bookkeeping) A ledger; an accounting journal. | [noun] A logbook. DAYBREAK (18) [noun] Dawn. DAYDREAM (15) [noun] A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality. | [verb] To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather. DAYFLIES (15) DAYGLOWS (16) DAYLIGHT (16) [noun] The light from the Sun, as opposed to that from any other source. | [noun] A light source that simulates daylight. | [noun] (photometry) The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight. DAYMARES (14) [noun] A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness. DAYROOMS (14) [noun] A common room in a barracks or dormitory where the inhabitants can mingle and socialize. DAYSIDES (13) [noun] The side of a planet that faces towards the sun around which it orbits DAYSTARS (12) DAYTIMES (14) [noun] The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset. DAYWORKS (19) DAZZLERS (27) [noun] One who or that which dazzles; something spectacular. DAZZLING (28) [verb] To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness. | [verb] To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. | [verb] To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. DEACONED (12) [verb] For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir. | [verb] (animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth. | [verb] To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath. DEACONRY (14) DEADBEAT (12) [noun] A lazy and/or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise financially independent people for support. | [noun] A person who defaults on debts. | [adjective] (of an instrument) having a damped needle that stops without oscillation DEADBOLT (12) [noun] The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged. | [noun] A kind of lock in which the bolt (moving portion) is held in position by the cylinder rather than by a spring and so can not be retracted except by turning the cylinder. | [verb] To fasten or secure with a deadbolt. DEADENED (11) [verb] To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle. | [verb] To become less lively; to diminish (by itself). | [verb] To make soundproof. DEADENER (10) DEADEYES (13) [noun] A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds. | [noun] A very accurate marksman. | [noun] A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant. DEADFALL (13) [noun] Coarse woody debris; deadwood. | [noun] A kind of trap for animals, consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey. | [noun] A cheap, rough bar or saloon. DEADHEAD (14) [noun] A fan of the rock band The Grateful Dead. | [noun] A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend. | [noun] An employee of a transportation company, especially a pilot, traveling as a passenger for logistical reasons, for example to return home or travel to their next assignment. DEADLIER (10) [adjective] Subject to death; mortal. | [adjective] Causing death; lethal. | [adjective] Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. DEADLIFT (13) [noun] A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position. | [noun] Any lift performed without help or leverage. | [noun] (by extension) An effort made under discouraging conditions. DEADLINE (10) [noun] A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed. | [noun] A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press. | [noun] A line that does not move. DEADLOCK (16) [noun] A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse | [noun] An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation. | [verb] To cause or to come to a deadlock. DEADNESS (10) DEADPANS (12) [verb] To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner. DEADWOOD (14) [noun] Coarse woody debris. | [noun] People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project. | [noun] Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early. DEAERATE (9) [verb] To remove the air or gas from something DEAFENED (13) [verb] To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently. | [verb] To make soundproof. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To stun, as with noise. DEAFNESS (12) [noun] The condition of being deaf; the lack or loss of the ability to hear. | [noun] Lack of knowledge or refusal to admit a particular problem, issue, etc. DEAIRING (10) DEALATED (10) DEALATES (9) DEALFISH (15) [noun] A deep-sea ribbonfish, Trachipterus arcticus, from the north Atlantic DEALINGS (10) [noun] Relations with others. | [noun] Business transactions. DEANSHIP (14) DEARNESS (9) DEASHING (13) DEATHBED (15) [noun] The bed on which someone dies. | [noun] The last hours before death. DEATHCUP (16) DEATHFUL (15) DEBACLES (13) [noun] An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. | [noun] A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water. DEBARKED (16) [verb] To unload goods from an aircraft or ship. | [verb] To disembark. | [verb] To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled. DEBARRED (12) [verb] To exclude or shut out; to bar. | [verb] To hinder or prevent. | [verb] 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. DEBASERS (11) DEBASING (12) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBATERS (11) [noun] One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues. DEBATING (12) [verb] To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. | [verb] To fight. | [verb] To engage in combat for; to strive for. DEBEAKED (16) [verb] To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms. DEBILITY (14) [noun] A state of physical or mental weakness. DEBITING (12) [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. | [verb] To record a receivable in the bookkeeping. | [noun] The act of making a debit in accounting. DEBONAIR (11) [noun] Debonaire behaviour; graciousness. | [adjective] Gracious, courteous. | [adjective] Suave, urbane and sophisticated. DEBONERS (11) DEBONING (12) [verb] To remove the bones from. DEBOUCHE (16) DEBRIDED (13) [verb] To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like). DEBRIDES (12) [verb] To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like). DEBRIEFS (14) [verb] To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence. | [verb] To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc. | [verb] To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner. DEBRUISE (11) [verb] To partially obscure one charge with another DEBTLESS (11) DEBUGGED (14) [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). | [verb] To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice. DEBUGGER (13) [noun] A computer program that helps the user to test and debug other programs, by enabling their step-by-step execution controlled by the user, setting of breakpoints, and monitoring values of variables. DEBUNKED (16) [verb] To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something. DEBUNKER (15) [noun] Someone who debunks. DEBUTANT (11) [noun] A male who débuts, or appears for the first time. DEBUTING (12) [verb] To formally introduce, as to the public | [verb] To make one's initial formal appearance DECADENT (12) [noun] A person affected by moral decay. | [adjective] Characterized by moral or cultural decline. | [adjective] Luxuriously self-indulgent. DECAGONS (12) [noun] A polygon with ten sides and ten angles. DECAGRAM (14) DECALOGS (12) DECAMPED (16) [verb] To break up camp and move on. | [verb] To disappear suddenly and secretly. DECANTED (12) [verb] To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment. | [verb] To pour from one vessel into another. | [verb] To flow. DECANTER (11) [noun] A vessel for decanting liquor. | [noun] A receptacle for decanted liquor, especially a crystal bottle with a stopper. DECAPODS (14) [noun] Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish. | [noun] Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters. | [noun] A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations. Sometimes capitalized. DECAYERS (14) DECAYING (15) [verb] To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. | [verb] (of organic material) To rot, to go bad. | [verb] (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons. DECEASED (12) [noun] A dead person. | [noun] One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide. | [adjective] No longer alive, dead DECEASES (11) [noun] Death, departure from life. | [verb] To die. DECEDENT (12) [noun] A dead person. | [adjective] Removing; departing. DECEIVED (15) [verb] To trick or mislead. DECEIVER (14) DECEIVES (14) [verb] To trick or mislead. DECEMVIR (16) DECENARY (14) DECENNIA (11) [noun] A period of ten years. DECENTER (11) [verb] To remove the centre from. | [verb] To place away from the centre; to make eccentric. | [verb] To displace from the centre. DECENTLY (14) [adverb] In a decent manner. | [adverb] To a reasonable or acceptable degree. DECENTRE (11) [verb] To remove the centre from. | [verb] To place away from the centre; to make eccentric. | [verb] To displace from the centre. DECERNED (12) DECIARES (11) DECIBELS (13) [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 = 10 log10(P1 / P2), where P1 and P2 are the relative powers of the sound. DECIDERS (12) [noun] (of a controversy, question, etc) A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides. | [noun] An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter. | [noun] A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input. DECIDING (13) [verb] To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle | [verb] To make a judgment, especially after deliberation | [verb] To cause someone to come to a decision DECIDUAE (12) DECIDUAL (12) DECIDUAS (12) DECIGRAM (14) [noun] An SI unit of mass equal to 10-1 grams. Symbol: dg DECIMALS (13) [noun] A number expressed in the base-ten system, a fractional numeral written in this system. | [noun] The decimal system itself. | [noun] A decimal place. DECIMATE (13) [noun] A tithe or other 10% tax or payment. | [noun] A tenth of something. | [noun] A set of ten items. DECIPHER (16) [noun] A decipherment; a decoding. | [verb] To decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text. | [verb] To read text that is almost illegible or obscure. DECISION (11) [noun] The act of deciding. | [noun] A choice or judgement. | [noun] Firmness of conviction. DECISIVE (14) [adjective] Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. | [adjective] Marked by promptness and decision. DECKHAND (19) [noun] A member of the crew of a merchant ship who performs manual labour. | [verb] To work on a boat as a deckhand; crew. DECKINGS (16) DECLAIMS (13) [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. DECLARED (12) [verb] To make clear, explain, interpret. | [verb] To make a declaration. | [verb] To show one's cards in order to score. DECLARER (11) [noun] The person who wins the bidding and so declares what suit will be trump. | [noun] One who declares. | [noun] A statement that declares the properties of a variable or contributes to doing so. DECLARES (11) [verb] To make clear, explain, interpret. | [verb] To make a declaration. | [verb] To show one's cards in order to score. DECLASSE (11) [adjective] Degraded from one's social class. DECLAWED (15) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. DECLINED (12) [verb] To move downwards, to fall, to drop. | [verb] To become weaker or worse. | [verb] To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. DECLINER (11) DECLINES (11) [noun] Downward movement, fall. | [noun] A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. | [noun] A weakening. DECOCTED (14) [verb] To make an infusion. | [verb] To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down. | [verb] To heat as if by boiling. DECODERS (12) [noun] A person who decodes secret messages | [noun] A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal DECODING (13) [verb] To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. | [verb] To figure out something difficult to interpret. | [noun] An instance of the translation of something into a form more suitable for subsequent processing. DECOLORS (11) [verb] To deprive of colour; to bleach. DECOLOUR (11) [verb] To deprive of colour; to bleach. DECORATE (11) [verb] To furnish with decorations. | [verb] To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office. | [verb] To decorate an interior space, as a house, room, or office. DECOROUS (11) [adjective] Marked by proper behavior. DECORUMS (13) [noun] Appropriate social behavior. | [noun] A convention of social behavior. DECOUPLE (13) [verb] To unlink; to take or come apart. DECOYERS (14) DECOYING (15) [verb] To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap. | [verb] To act as, or use, a decoy. | [noun] The act of one who decoys. DECREASE (11) [noun] An amount by which a quantity is decreased. | [noun] A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting). | [verb] Of a quantity, to become smaller. DECREERS (11) DECREPIT (13) [adjective] Weakened or worn out from age or wear. DECRETAL (11) [noun] A papal decree, particularly one derived from an ecclesiastical letter. | [noun] Any decree or pronounced instruction. | [adjective] Pertaining to a decree. DECRIALS (11) DECRIERS (11) DECROWNS (14) DECRYING (15) [verb] To denounce as harmful. | [verb] To blame for ills. | [noun] A decrial. DECRYPTS (16) [noun] A decoded communication. | [verb] To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text. DECUPLED (14) DECUPLES (13) DECURIES (11) DECURION (11) DECURVED (15) [adjective] Curved downward DECURVES (14) DEDICATE (12) [verb] To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. | [verb] To set apart for a special use | [verb] To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action DEDUCING (13) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEDUCTED (13) [verb] To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount. DEEDIEST (10) DEEDLESS (10) DEEMSTER (11) [noun] A judge; one who pronounces sentence or doom. | [noun] A judge on the Isle of Man. DEEPENED (12) [verb] To make deep or deeper | [verb] To make darker or more intense; to darken | [verb] To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree DEEPENER (11) DEEPNESS (11) DEERLIKE (13) DEERSKIN (13) [noun] Leather made from deer hide. | [noun] The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer. | [noun] An article of clothing manufactured from deerskin. Often constructed in the plural. DEERWEED (13) DEERYARD (13) DEFACERS (14) DEFACING (15) [verb] To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | [verb] To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | [verb] (flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. DEFAMERS (14) DEFAMING (15) [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. | [verb] To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. | [verb] To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. DEFANGED (14) [verb] To remove the fangs from (something). | [verb] To render harmless. DEFATTED (13) [verb] To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents | [adjective] From which fat has been removed (often by use of solvents) DEFAULTS (12) [noun] The condition of failing to meet an obligation. | [noun] The original software programming settings as set by the factory | [noun] A loss incurred by failing to compete. DEFEATED (13) [verb] To overcome in battle or contest. | [verb] To reduce, to nothing, the strength of. | [verb] To nullify DEFEATER (12) [noun] One who defeats. | [noun] A belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another belief were false. DEFECATE (14) [verb] To excrete feces from one's bowels. | [verb] To purify, to clean of dregs etc. | [verb] To purge; to pass (something) as excrement. DEFECTED (15) [verb] To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party. | [verb] To desert one's army, to flee from combat. | [verb] To join the enemy army. DEFECTOR (14) [noun] One who defects. DEFENCES (14) [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. DEFENDED (14) [verb] To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. | [verb] To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. | [verb] To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused). DEFENDER (13) [noun] Someone who defends people or property | [noun] One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring | [noun] A fighter who seeks to repel an attack DEFENSED (13) DEFENSES (12) [noun] The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. | [noun] Anything employed to oppose attack(s). | [noun] An argument in support or justification of something. DEFERENT (12) [noun] A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one. | [noun] That which carries or conveys. | [noun] An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round. DEFERRAL (12) [noun] An act of deferring, a deferment. | [noun] An accrual. | [noun] A prepayment. DEFERRED (13) [verb] To delay or postpone | [verb] 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). | [verb] To delay, to wait. DEFERRER (12) DEFIANCE (14) [noun] The feeling, or spirit of being defiant. | [noun] Open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power. | [noun] A challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge. DEFICITS (14) [noun] Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack. | [noun] A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue. DEFILADE (13) [noun] A fortification having such protection. | [verb] To fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire. DEFILERS (12) DEFILING (13) [verb] To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. | [verb] To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate | [verb] To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape DEFINERS (12) DEFINING (13) [verb] To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. | [verb] To settle, decide (an argument etc.) | [verb] To express the essential nature of something. DEFINITE (12) [noun] (grammar) A word or phrase that designates a specified or identified person or entity. | [noun] Anything that is defined or determined. | [adjective] Having distinct limits. DEFLATED (13) [verb] To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre | [verb] To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink | [verb] To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. DEFLATER (12) DEFLATES (12) [verb] To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre | [verb] To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink | [verb] To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. DEFLATOR (12) DEFLEAED (13) DEFLECTS (14) [verb] To make (something) deviate from its original path. | [verb] (ball games) To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players. | [verb] To deviate from its original path. DEFLEXED (20) [adjective] Bent downward, as branches, leaves, or hairs. DEFLOWER (15) [verb] To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl. | [verb] To deprive of flowers. | [verb] To deprive of grace and beauty. DEFOAMED (15) DEFOAMER (14) DEFOGGED (15) DEFOGGER (14) [noun] Something or someone that defogs. DEFORCED (15) [verb] To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it. | [verb] To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty. DEFORCES (14) [verb] To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it. | [verb] To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty. DEFOREST (12) [verb] To clear (an area) of forest. DEFORMED (15) [verb] To change the form of, usually negatively; to give (something) an unusual or abnormal shape. | [verb] To change the looks of, usually negatively; to give something an unusual or abnormal appearance. | [verb] To mar the character of. DEFORMER (14) DEFRAUDS (13) [verb] To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle. | [verb] To deprive. DEFRAYAL (15) DEFRAYED (16) [verb] To spend (money). | [verb] To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something). | [verb] To pay for (something). DEFRAYER (15) DEFROCKS (18) [verb] To divest of a frock. | [verb] To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy. | [verb] (by extension) To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner. DEFROSTS (12) [noun] The removal of frost. | [verb] To remove frost from. | [verb] To thaw something. DEFTNESS (12) DEFUNDED (14) [verb] To cancel funding for. DEFUSING (13) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUZING (22) DEGASSED (11) [verb] To remove the gas from. | [adjective] From which the gas has been removed DEGASSER (10) DEGASSES (10) DEGERMED (13) DEGLAZED (20) [verb] To remove glaze from. | [verb] To abrade the cylinders of an engine to ensure a tight seal. | [verb] To detach small pieces of cooked food from a pan by adding liquid, so that they can be used in further cooking. DEGLAZES (19) [verb] To remove glaze from. | [verb] To abrade the cylinders of an engine to ensure a tight seal. | [verb] To detach small pieces of cooked food from a pan by adding liquid, so that they can be used in further cooking. DEGRADED (12) [verb] To lower in value or social position. | [verb] To reduce in quality or purity. | [verb] To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. DEGRADER (11) DEGRADES (11) [verb] To lower in value or social position. | [verb] To reduce in quality or purity. | [verb] To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. DEGREASE (10) [verb] To remove grease from something. DEGUMMED (15) DEGUSTED (11) [verb] To taste carefully to fully appreciate it. | [verb] To savour DEHISCED (15) [verb] To burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen or similar content. | [verb] To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound. DEHISCES (14) [verb] To burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, pollen or similar content. | [verb] To rupture or break open, as a surgical wound. DEHORNED (13) [verb] To remove the horns from. DEHORNER (12) DEHORTED (13) [verb] To dissuade. DEICIDAL (12) DEICIDES (12) [noun] The killing of a god or goddess; godslaughter. | [noun] The killer of a god or goddess. | [noun] The crucifixion of Jesus viewed as a crime. DEIFICAL (14) DEIFIERS (12) DEIFYING (16) [verb] To make a god of (something or someone). | [verb] To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity. DEIGNING (11) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DEIONIZE (18) [verb] To remove the ions from DEIXISES (16) DEJECTED (19) [verb] Make sad or dispirited. | [verb] To cast down. | [adjective] Sad and dispirited. DEJEUNER (16) DEKAGRAM (16) DELAINES (9) DELATING (10) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DELATION (9) DELATORS (9) DELAYERS (12) DELAYING (13) [verb] To put off until a later time; to defer. | [verb] To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time. | [verb] To allay; to temper. DELEADED (11) DELEAVED (13) DELEAVES (12) DELEGACY (15) [noun] The position or state of being a delegate. | [noun] A collection of delegates. DELEGATE (10) [noun] A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy | [noun] A representative at a conference, etc. | [noun] An appointed representative in some legislative bodies DELETING (10) [verb] To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. DELETION (9) [noun] An item that has been or will be deleted. | [noun] The act of deleting. | [noun] A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome DELICACY (16) [noun] The quality of being delicate. | [noun] Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy | [noun] Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance. DELICATE (11) [noun] A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie. | [noun] A choice dainty; a delicacy. | [noun] A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. DELIGHTS (13) [noun] Joy; pleasure. | [noun] Something that gives great joy or pleasure. | [verb] To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. DELIMING (12) DELIMITS (11) [verb] To mark or fix the limits of. | [verb] To demarcate. DELIRIUM (11) [noun] A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection. DELISTED (10) [verb] To remove from an official register or list. DELIVERS (12) [verb] To set free from restraint or danger. | [verb] (process) To do with birth. | [verb] To free from or disburden of anything. DELIVERY (15) [noun] The act of conveying something. | [noun] The item which has been conveyed. | [noun] The act of giving birth DELOUSED (10) [verb] To remove lice from. | [verb] To apply insecticides or insect repellents to, in order to be sure that no lice or other parasites are present. | [verb] To remove malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms, from. DELOUSER (9) DELOUSES (9) [verb] To remove lice from. | [verb] To apply insecticides or insect repellents to, in order to be sure that no lice or other parasites are present. | [verb] To remove malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms, from. DELTOIDS (10) [noun] The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder. | [noun] The deltoid ligament, a triangular ligament on the human ankle. DELUDERS (10) DELUDING (11) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. DELUGING (11) [verb] To flood with water. | [verb] To overwhelm. DELUSION (9) [noun] A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts. | [noun] The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody. | [noun] That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. DELUSIVE (12) [adjective] Producing delusions. | [adjective] Delusional. | [adjective] Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion. DELUSORY (12) [adjective] Tending to delude DELUSTER (9) [verb] To remove the lustre from yarn, typically by adding a pigment at spinning time DEMAGOGS (13) DEMAGOGY (16) [noun] Demagogism DEMANDED (13) [verb] To request forcefully. | [verb] To claim a right to something. | [verb] To ask forcefully for information. DEMANDER (12) DEMARCHE (16) [noun] A diplomatic maneuver; one handled with finesse. | [noun] A protest launched through diplomatic measures. DEMARKED (16) [verb] To demarcate. DEMASTED (12) DEMEANED (12) [verb] To debase; to lower; to degrade. | [verb] To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. | [verb] To mortify. DEMEANOR (11) [noun] The social, non-verbal behaviours (such as body language and facial expressions) that are characteristic of a person. DEMENTED (12) [verb] To drive mad; to craze | [adjective] Insane or mentally ill. | [adjective] Suffering from dementia. DEMENTIA (11) [noun] A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving. | [noun] Madness or insanity. DEMERARA (11) [noun] A type of natural, unrefined or partially refined cane sugar, which is light brown in colour, particularly used in pastries and biscuits like shortbread. | [noun] A dark rum, made in Guyana using molasses and this sugar, mainly used for blending. DEMERGED (13) [verb] To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger. | [verb] To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. DEMERGER (12) [noun] A partial or complete reversal of a previous merger. | [noun] The disposal of subsidiaries or divisions of a company. DEMERGES (12) [verb] To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger. | [verb] To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. DEMERITS (11) [noun] A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage | [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. DEMERSAL (11) [noun] Any demersal organism. | [adjective] That lives near the bottom of a body of water. DEMESNES (11) [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. DEMETONS (11) DEMIGODS (13) [noun] A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal. | [noun] A lesser deity. DEMIJOHN (21) [noun] A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork. DEMILUNE (11) [noun] A fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. | [noun] A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands. | [adjective] (of furniture) In the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular. DEMIREPS (13) [noun] A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. DEMISING (12) [verb] To give. | [verb] To convey, as by will or lease. | [verb] To transmit by inheritance. DEMITTED (12) [verb] To let fall; to depress; to yield. | [verb] To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge. DEMIURGE (12) [noun] The (usually benevolent) being that created the universe out of primal matter. | [noun] A (usually jealous or outright malevolent) being who is inferior to the supreme being, and sometimes seen as the creator of evil. | [noun] Something (such as an idea, individual or institution) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power. DEMIVOLT (14) DEMOBBED (16) [verb] To demobilize; to release someone from military service. DEMOCRAT (13) [noun] A supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France). | [noun] Someone who rules a representative democracy. | [noun] A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats. DEMOLISH (14) [verb] To destroy. | [verb] To defeat or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent). DEMONESS (11) DEMONIAC (13) [noun] Someone who is possessed by a demon. | [adjective] Possessed or controlled by a demon. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to demons; demonic. DEMONIAN (11) DEMONISE (11) [verb] To turn into a demon. | [verb] To describe or represent as evil or diabolic. DEMONISM (13) [noun] Belief in, or worship of demons or devils. | [noun] The quality of being demonic (often figuratively). | [noun] An act or event attributed to demons or devils; an evil act. DEMONIST (11) DEMONIZE (20) [verb] To turn into a demon. | [verb] To describe or represent as evil or diabolic. DEMOTICS (13) DEMOTING (12) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DEMOTION (11) [noun] An act of demoting; a lowering of rank or status DEMOTIST (11) DEMOUNTS (11) [verb] To remove from its mounting; to take down from a mounted position. | [verb] To dismount. DEMPSTER (13) DEMURELY (14) DEMUREST (11) [adjective] (usually of women) Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious. | [adjective] Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. DEMURRAL (11) [noun] The act of demurring. | [noun] A formal objection. DEMURRED (12) [verb] To linger; to stay; to tarry | [verb] 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] To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk DEMURRER (11) [noun] A motion by a party to an action, for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further. | [noun] Someone who demurs. DENARIUS (9) [noun] A small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces. DENATURE (9) [verb] To take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of (a thing or a person). | [verb] To add something to (alcohol) that makes it unsuitable for consumption but leaves it suitable for other purposes. | [verb] To alter its original form or state, especially of a protein, by heat, acidity etc. DENAZIFY (24) [verb] To free from Nazi influence. DENDRITE (10) [noun] A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron. | [noun] Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system. | [noun] Tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes DENDROID (11) [noun] An arcwise connected, hereditarily unicoherent continuum. | [adjective] Resembling a shrub or tree. DENDRONS (10) [noun] A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendrite. | [noun] A section of a dendrimer that includes the central atom or group. DENIABLE (11) [adjective] Able to be denied or contradicted DENIABLY (14) DENIZENS (18) [noun] An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in. | [noun] One who frequents a place. | [noun] A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent. DENOTING (10) [verb] To indicate; to mark. | [verb] To make overt. | [verb] To refer to literally; to convey as meaning. DENOTIVE (12) DENOUNCE (11) [verb] To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare. | [verb] To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame. | [verb] To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse. DENTALIA (9) [noun] Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium. DENTALLY (12) DENTATED (10) DENTICLE (11) [noun] A small tooth. | [noun] A pulp stone. | [noun] Material serving as the dermis of sharks. DENTILED (10) DENTINAL (9) DENTINES (9) DENTISTS (9) [noun] A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry. DENTURAL (9) DENTURES (9) [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 DENUDATE (10) DENUDERS (10) DENUDING (11) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. DEODANDS (11) DEODARAS (10) DEORBITS (11) DEPAINTS (11) DEPARTED (12) [verb] To leave. | [verb] To set out on a journey. | [verb] To die. DEPARTEE (11) DEPENDED (13) [verb] (followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on. | [verb] (followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely. | [verb] To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. DEPERMED (14) DEPICTED (14) [verb] To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. DEPICTER (13) DEPICTOR (13) DEPILATE (11) [verb] To remove hair from the body. DEPLANED (12) [verb] To disembark from an airplane. DEPLANES (11) [verb] To disembark from an airplane. DEPLETED (12) [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. | [adjective] Used up, expended; of which nothing is left. DEPLETES (11) [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. DEPLORED (12) [verb] To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for. | [verb] To condemn; to express strong disapproval of. | [verb] To regard as hopeless; to give up. DEPLORER (11) DEPLORES (11) [verb] To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for. | [verb] To condemn; to express strong disapproval of. | [verb] To regard as hopeless; to give up. DEPLOYED (15) [verb] To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use. | [verb] To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use. | [verb] To install, test and implement a computer system or application. DEPLUMED (14) [verb] To strip of feathers or plumage. | [verb] To lay bare; to expose. DEPLUMES (13) [verb] To strip of feathers or plumage. | [verb] To lay bare; to expose. DEPOLISH (14) DEPONENT (11) [noun] A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her. | [noun] (grammar) A deponent verb. | [adjective] (of some Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Scandinavian or Old Irish verbs) Having passive form (that is, conjugating like the passive voice), but an active meaning. (Such verbs, originally reflexive, are considered to have laid aside their passive meanings.) DEPONING (12) [verb] To testify, especially in the form of a deposition. | [verb] To take the deposition of; to depose. | [verb] To lay, as a stake; to wager. DEPORTED (12) [verb] To comport (oneself); to behave. | [verb] To evict, especially from a country. DEPORTEE (11) [noun] A deported person. DEPOSALS (11) DEPOSERS (11) DEPOSING (12) [verb] To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. | [verb] To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. | [verb] To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition DEPOSITS (11) [noun] 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] Money placed in an account. DEPRAVED (15) [verb] To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile | [verb] To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt | [adjective] Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense. DEPRAVER (14) DEPRAVES (14) [verb] To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile | [verb] To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt DEPRIVAL (14) DEPRIVED (15) [verb] To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something. | [verb] To degrade (a clergyman) from office. | [verb] To bereave. DEPRIVER (14) DEPRIVES (14) [verb] To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something. | [verb] To degrade (a clergyman) from office. | [verb] To bereave. DEPSIDES (12) DEPURATE (11) [verb] To remove impurities from; to purify. | [verb] To make impure. | [adjective] Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. DEPUTIES (11) [noun] One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office | [noun] A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners. | [noun] (France): A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif DEPUTING (12) [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate | [verb] To deputize (someone), appoint as deputy DEPUTIZE (20) [verb] To make (someone) a deputy; to officially empower. | [verb] To make or name as a substitute. | [verb] To act as a deputy. DERAIGNS (10) DERAILED (10) [verb] To cause to come off the tracks. | [verb] To come off the tracks. | [verb] To deviate from the previous course or direction. DERANGED (11) [verb] (chiefly passive) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged. | [verb] To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state. | [verb] To disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone; derail. DERANGES (10) [verb] (chiefly passive) To cause (someone) to go insane or become deranged. | [verb] To cause disorder in (something); to distort from its ideal state. | [verb] To disrupt somebody's plans, to inconvenience someone; derail. DERATING (10) [verb] To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. | [noun] The act by which something is derated. DERATTED (10) DERELICT (11) [noun] Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. | [noun] An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast. | [noun] A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and hygiene. (This sense is a modern development of the preceding sense.) DERIDERS (10) DERIDING (11) [verb] To harshly mock; ridicule. DERINGER (10) DERISION (9) [noun] Act of treating with disdain. | [noun] Something to be derided; a laughing stock. DERISIVE (12) [noun] A derisive remark. | [adjective] Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing. | [adjective] Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule. DERISORY (12) [adjective] Laughably small or inadequate. | [adjective] Derisive; laughable; ridiculous DERIVATE (12) [noun] Something derived; a derivative. | [verb] To derive. | [adjective] Derived; derivative. DERIVERS (12) DERIVING (13) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DERMISES (11) DERMOIDS (12) DEROGATE (10) [verb] To partially repeal (a law etc.). | [verb] To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle. | [verb] To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened. DERRICKS (15) [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] A hangman. DERRIERE (9) [noun] (chiefly humorous) bottom, bum DERRISES (9) DESALTED (10) [verb] To remove salt from; to desalinate. DESALTER (9) DESANDED (11) DESCANTS (11) [noun] A lengthy discourse on a subject. | [noun] A counterpoint melody sung or played above the theme | [verb] To discuss at length. DESCENDS (12) [verb] 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] To enter mentally; to retire. | [verb] (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence. DESCENTS (11) [noun] An instance of descending; act of coming down. | [noun] A way down. | [noun] A sloping passage or incline. DESCRIBE (13) [verb] To represent in words. | [verb] To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out. | [verb] To give rise to a geometrical structure. DESCRIED (12) [verb] To see. | [verb] To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect. | [verb] To discover: to disclose; to reveal. DESCRIER (11) DESCRIES (11) [verb] To see. | [verb] To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect. | [verb] To discover: to disclose; to reveal. DESELECT (11) [verb] To not select; to rule out of selection. | [verb] To reject (an MP) as constituency candidate at a forthcoming election. | [verb] To remove from an existing selection. DESERTED (10) [verb] To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake. | [verb] To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission. | [adjective] (of a place) Abandoned, without people. DESERTER (9) [noun] A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving DESERTIC (11) DESERVED (13) [verb] To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have. | [verb] To earn, win. | [verb] To reward, to give in return for service. DESERVER (12) DESERVES (12) [verb] To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have. | [verb] To earn, win. | [verb] To reward, to give in return for service. DESEXING (17) [verb] To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization. DESIGNED (11) [verb] To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.). | [verb] To plan (to do something). | [verb] To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate. DESIGNEE (10) DESIGNER (10) [noun] A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession. | [noun] A plotter or schemer. | [noun] A software tool for designing things. DESILVER (12) DESINENT (9) DESIRERS (9) DESIRING (10) [verb] To want; to wish for earnestly. | [verb] To put a request to (someone); to entreat. | [verb] To want emotionally or sexually. DESIROUS (9) [adjective] Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain DESISTED (10) [verb] To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from). DESKTOPS (15) [noun] The top surface of a desk. | [noun] A desktop computer. | [noun] The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper. DESMOIDS (12) DESOLATE (9) [verb] To deprive of inhabitants. | [verb] To devastate or lay waste somewhere. | [verb] To abandon or forsake something. DESORBED (12) [verb] (of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed | [adjective] Removed by desorption DESPAIRS (11) [verb] To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. | [verb] To cause to despair. | [verb] (often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. DESPATCH (16) [noun] A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer. | [noun] The act of doing something quickly. | [noun] A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field. DESPISED (12) [verb] To regard with contempt or scorn. | [verb] To disregard or ignore. | [adjective] Hated; viewed with scorn. DESPISER (11) DESPISES (11) [verb] To regard with contempt or scorn. | [verb] To disregard or ignore. DESPITED (12) DESPITES (11) DESPOILS (11) [verb] To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from. | [verb] To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob. | [verb] To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress. DESPONDS (12) [verb] To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart. DESPOTIC (13) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant. | [adjective] Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical. DESSERTS (9) [noun] A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal DESTAINS (9) [verb] To remove a chemical stain from. | [verb] To lose a chemical stain. DESTINED (10) [verb] To preordain | [verb] To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use | [verb] To have a particular destination DESTINES (9) [verb] To preordain | [verb] To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use | [verb] To have a particular destination DESTRIER (9) [noun] A large warhorse, especially of a medieval knight. | [noun] A steed. DESTROYS (12) [verb] To damage beyond use or repair. | [verb] To neutralize, undo a property or condition. | [verb] To put down or euthanize. DESTRUCT (11) [verb] To intentionally cause the destruction of. | [verb] To self-destruct. DESUGARS (10) DESULFUR (12) DETACHED (15) [verb] To take apart from; to take off. | [verb] To separate for a special object or use. | [verb] To come off something. DETACHER (14) DETACHES (14) [verb] To take apart from; to take off. | [verb] To separate for a special object or use. | [verb] To come off something. DETAILED (10) [verb] To explain in detail. | [verb] To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/) | [verb] To assign to a particular task DETAILER (9) DETAINED (10) [verb] To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention. | [verb] To put under custody. | [verb] To keep back or from; to withhold. DETAINEE (9) [noun] Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement. DETAINER (9) [noun] The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will. A type of custody. | [noun] One who detains. DETASSEL (9) DETECTED (12) [verb] To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing | [adjective] Having been noticed. DETECTER (11) DETECTOR (11) [noun] A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning. DETENTES (9) [noun] A relaxing of tension, especially between countries. DETERGED (11) [verb] To clean of undesirable material, especially a wound (technical). DETERGER (10) DETERGES (10) [verb] To clean of undesirable material, especially a wound (technical). DETERRED (10) [verb] To prevent something from happening. | [verb] To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage. | [verb] To distract someone from something. DETERRER (9) DETESTED (10) [verb] To dislike intensely; to loathe. | [verb] To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. DETESTER (9) DETHRONE (12) [verb] To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy. | [verb] To remove any governing authority from power. | [verb] To remove from any position of high status or power. DETICKED (16) DETICKER (15) DETINUES (9) DETONATE (9) [verb] To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression. | [verb] To cause to explode. DETOURED (10) [verb] To make a detour. | [verb] To direct or send on a detour. DETOXIFY (22) [verb] To remove foreign and harmful substances from something. DETOXING (17) [verb] To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs. DETRACTS (11) [verb] To take away; to withdraw or remove. | [verb] To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry. DETRAINS (9) [verb] To exit from a train; to disembark | [verb] To remove a passenger or passengers from a train; to evacuate passengers from a train. | [verb] (of an athlete) to reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining. DETRITAL (9) DETRITUS (9) [noun] (chiefly geological) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion. | [noun] Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals. | [noun] Debris or fragments of disintegrated material. DETRUDED (11) DETRUDES (10) DEUCEDLY (15) DEUTERIC (11) DEUTERON (9) [noun] The atomic nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of a proton and a neutron DEUTZIAS (18) [noun] Any of a group of cultivated shrubs, of the genus Deutzia, having white or pink flowers DEVALUED (13) [verb] To lower or remove the value of something. | [verb] To lose value; to depreciate. DEVALUES (12) [verb] To lower or remove the value of something. | [verb] To lose value; to depreciate. DEVEINED (13) [verb] To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp). | [adjective] Having had the veins removed. DEVELING (13) DEVELOPE (14) DEVELOPS (14) [verb] To change with a specific direction, progress. | [verb] To progress through a sequence of stages. | [verb] To advance; to further; to promote the growth of. DEVERBAL (14) [noun] (grammar) A word, especially a substantive, that is derived from a verb. | [adjective] (grammar) Derived from a verb. Commonly used to describe nominalized verb forms in Navajo, as well as gerunds and adjectives in Russian. DEVESTED (13) DEVIANCE (14) [noun] Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs. | [noun] A person or thing that differs from the expected. DEVIANCY (17) DEVIANTS (12) [noun] A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior. | [noun] A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern. DEVIATED (13) [verb] To go off course from; to change course; to change plans. | [verb] To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray. | [verb] To cause to diverge. DEVIATES (12) [noun] A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert. | [noun] A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value. | [verb] To go off course from; to change course; to change plans. DEVIATOR (12) DEVILING (13) [verb] To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. | [noun] A young devil. DEVILISH (15) [adjective] Resembling a devil. | [adjective] Characteristic of a devil. | [adjective] Extreme, excessive. DEVILKIN (16) DEVILLED (13) [verb] To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. DEVILTRY (15) [noun] Devilry. DEVISALS (12) DEVISEES (12) [noun] The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will. DEVISERS (12) DEVISING (13) [verb] To use one's intellect to plan or design (something). | [verb] To leave (property) in a will. | [verb] To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. DEVISORS (12) DEVOICED (15) [verb] To pronounce a word with little movement of the vocal cords | [verb] To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel. DEVOICES (14) [verb] To pronounce a word with little movement of the vocal cords | [verb] To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel. DEVOLVED (16) [verb] To roll (something) down; to unroll. | [verb] 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] To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone. DEVOLVES (15) [verb] To roll (something) down; to unroll. | [verb] 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] To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone. DEVOTEES (12) [noun] An ardent enthusiast or admirer. | [noun] A fanatical or zealous believer in a particular religion or god. | [noun] Someone with an amputee fetish. DEVOTING (13) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOTION (12) [noun] The act or state of devoting or being devoted. | [noun] Feeling of strong or fervent affection; dedication | [noun] Religious veneration, zeal, or piety. DEVOURED (13) [verb] To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | [verb] To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | [verb] To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. DEVOURER (12) DEVOUTER (12) DEVOUTLY (15) [adverb] In a devout manner. DEWATERS (12) [verb] To remove water from. DEWAXING (20) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. | [noun] A process in which wax is removed from a material or a surface. DEWBERRY (17) [noun] Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground. | [noun] The purple to black berries of these plants. DEWCLAWS (17) [noun] A vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground. DEWDROPS (15) [noun] A droplet of water formed as dew. | [noun] (1800s) A slow pitch. DEWFALLS (15) DEWINESS (12) DEWOOLED (13) DEWORMED (15) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DEWORMER (14) DEXTRANS (16) DEXTRINE (16) DEXTRINS (16) DEXTROSE (16) [noun] The naturally-occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule. DEXTROUS (16) [adjective] Skillful with one's hands. | [adjective] Skillful in some specific thing. | [adjective] Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully. DEZINCED (21) DHOOLIES (12) DHOOTIES (12) DHOURRAS (12) DHURRIES (12) [noun] A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet. DIABASES (11) DIABASIC (13) DIABETES (11) [noun] Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin. | [noun] Any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin. | [noun] Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar. DIABETIC (13) [noun] A person who suffers from diabetes mellitus. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus. | [adjective] Having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus. DIABLERY (14) DIABOLIC (13) [adjective] Showing wickedness typical of a devil. | [adjective] Extremely evil or cruel. DIABOLOS (11) [noun] A juggling apparatus consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string attached to handsticks. DIACETYL (14) DIACIDIC (14) DIACONAL (11) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a deacon or the diaconate lay clergy. DIADEMED (13) DIAGNOSE (10) [verb] To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis. | [verb] (by extension) To determine the cause of a problem. DIAGONAL (10) [noun] A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon. | [noun] Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly: | [adjective] Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron). DIAGRAMS (12) [noun] A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole. | [noun] A graph or chart. | [noun] A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C". DIAGRAPH (15) DIALECTS (11) [noun] A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon. | [noun] Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong. | [noun] A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region. DIALINGS (10) DIALISTS (9) DIALLAGE (10) DIALLERS (9) [noun] A person or device that dials, as using a telephone. DIALLING (10) [verb] To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. | [verb] To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. | [verb] To use a dial or a telephone. DIALLIST (9) DIALOGED (11) [verb] To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding. DIALOGER (10) DIALOGIC (12) [adjective] Of or relating to dialogue. | [adjective] (Of a literary work) written in dialogue. | [adjective] Of or relating to dialogism. DIALOGUE (10) [noun] A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. | [noun] (authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters. | [noun] A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation. DIALYSED (13) [verb] To subject (something or someone) to dialysis. | [verb] To undergo dialysis. DIALYSER (12) DIALYSES (12) [noun] A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane. | [noun] Utilization of this method for removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure: hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. | [noun] The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion. DIALYSIS (12) [noun] A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane. | [noun] Utilization of this method for removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure: hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. | [noun] The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion. DIALYTIC (14) DIALYZED (22) [verb] To subject (something or someone) to dialysis. | [verb] To undergo dialysis. DIALYZER (21) DIALYZES (21) [verb] To subject (something or someone) to dialysis. | [verb] To undergo dialysis. DIAMANTE (11) [noun] An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone. | [noun] A diamante poem. | [adjective] Covered in diamante decorations DIAMETER (11) [noun] Any straight line between two points on the circumference of a circle that passes through the centre/center of the circle. | [noun] The length of such a line. | [noun] The maximum distance between any two points in a metric space DIAMIDES (12) DIAMINES (11) [noun] Any compound containing two amino functional groups. DIAMONDS (12) [noun] A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron. | [noun] A gemstone made from this mineral. | [noun] A ring containing a diamond. DIANTHUS (12) [noun] Any plant, such as carnations and pinks, of the genus Dianthus. DIAPASON (11) [noun] The musical octave. | [noun] (by extension) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument. | [noun] A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ. DIAPAUSE (11) [noun] A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes) DIAPERED (12) [verb] To put diapers on someone. | [verb] To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. DIAPHONE (14) [noun] A kind of organ pipe. | [noun] A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air. | [noun] A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme. DIAPHONY (17) DIAPIRIC (13) DIARCHIC (16) DIARISTS (9) [noun] One who keeps a diary. DIARRHEA (12) [noun] A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very fluid or watery bowel movements. | [noun] The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements. DIASPORA (11) [noun] The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century B.C.E.). | [noun] (by extension) Any similar dispersion. | [noun] (collective) A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel. DIASPORE (11) [noun] A natural hydrate of aluminium, sometimes forming stalactites. | [noun] A gemstone consisting of hydrate of aluminium in crystal form. | [noun] Seeds and fruit together regarded as a dispersal unit. DIASTASE (9) [noun] Any one of a group of enzymes which catalyse the breakdown of starch into maltose; mostly amylase DIASTEMA (11) [noun] A gap or space between two adjacent teeth, especially the upper front incisors (in humans). | [noun] Any abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in an organ or part of the body. | [noun] The modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell, existing before mitotic division. DIASTEMS (11) DIASTERS (9) DIASTOLE (9) [noun] The phase or process of relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, between contractions, during which they fill with blood; an instance of the process. | [noun] The lengthening of a vowel or syllable beyond its typical length. | [noun] (Greek grammar) The hypodiastole, a textual or punctuation mark formerly used to disambiguate homonyms in Greek. DIASTRAL (9) DIATOMIC (13) [noun] A diatomic molecule or other species | [adjective] (of a molecule etc.) Consisting of two atoms. | [adjective] Of or relating to diatoms. DIATONIC (11) [adjective] Relating to or characteristic of a musical scale which contains seven pitches and a pattern of five whole tones and two semitones; particularly, of the major or natural minor scales. DIATRIBE (11) [noun] An abusive, bitter, attack or criticism: denunciation. | [noun] A prolonged discourse. | [noun] A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something. DIATRONS (9) DIAZEPAM (22) [noun] A tranquilizing muscle relaxant drug (trademark Valium) used chiefly to relieve anxiety. DIAZINES (18) DIAZINON (18) [noun] An organophosphorus insecticide used to control fleas etc. DIAZOLES (18) DIBBLERS (13) [noun] A small Australian mouse-like marsupial (Parantechinus apicalis). | [noun] A dibble (device for making holes in which to plant seeds). | [noun] A person who uses a dibble. DIBBLING (14) [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. | [verb] To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. DIBBUKIM (19) DICASTIC (13) DICENTRA (11) [noun] Any of the plant genus Dicentra. DICHASIA (14) [noun] A cymose inflorescence with all branches below the terminal flower in regular opposite pairs. DICHOTIC (16) [adjective] That stimulates each ear with a different pitch or loudness DICHROIC (16) [noun] A dichroic filter | [adjective] Exhibiting dichroism. | [adjective] Exhibiting dichromatism; dichromatic. DICKERED (16) [verb] To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale. | [verb] To barter. DICKIEST (15) [adjective] Doubtful, troublesome; in poor condition | [adjective] Like a dick, foolish or obnoxious DICOTYLS (14) DICROTAL (11) DICROTIC (13) [adjective] (pulse) Having a double beat. DICTATED (12) [verb] To order, command, control. | [verb] To speak in order for someone to write down the words. DICTATES (11) [noun] An order or command. | [verb] To order, command, control. | [verb] To speak in order for someone to write down the words. DICTATOR (11) [noun] A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government. | [noun] A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war. | [noun] A tyrannical boss or authority figure. DICTIEST (11) DICTIONS (11) DICYCLIC (18) DIDACTIC (14) [noun] A treatise on teaching or education. | [adjective] Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. | [adjective] Excessively moralizing. DIDACTYL (15) DIDAPPER (14) DIDDLERS (11) [noun] A person who diddles; a cheat or swindler. DIDDLEYS (14) DIDDLIES (11) DIDDLING (12) [verb] To cheat; to swindle. | [verb] To have sex with. | [verb] To masturbate (especially of women). DIDYMIUM (17) [noun] A mixture of praseodymium and neodymium once thought to be an element (symbol Di). DIDYMOUS (15) DIDYNAMY (18) DIEBACKS (17) DIECIOUS (11) DIEHARDS (13) [noun] A person with such an attitude. DIELDRIN (10) [noun] A cyclodiene insecticide, related to aldrin, that is a persistent organic pollutant. DIEMAKER (15) DIERESES (9) DIERESIS (9) [noun] A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne. | [noun] Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables. | [noun] A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse. DIERETIC (11) DIESELED (10) DIESTERS (9) DIESTOCK (15) [noun] A component that holds a die that cuts screw threads. DIESTRUM (11) DIESTRUS (9) [noun] A period of sexual inactivity (in female mammals) between periods of oestrus. DIETETIC (11) [adjective] Relating to diet. | [adjective] Relating to preparation for those on a restricted diet. DIETHERS (12) DIFFERED (16) [verb] Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct. | [verb] (people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree. | [verb] To be separated in quantity. DIFFRACT (17) [verb] To cause diffraction | [verb] To undergo diffraction DIFFUSED (16) [verb] To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means. | [verb] To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means. DIFFUSER (15) [noun] Any person or thing that diffuses. | [noun] A device designed to diffuse a scent efficiently. | [noun] Any device that or spreads out or scatters light, making the light appear softer. DIFFUSES (15) [verb] To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means. | [verb] To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means. DIFFUSOR (15) [noun] Any person or thing that diffuses. | [noun] A device designed to diffuse a scent efficiently. | [noun] Any device that or spreads out or scatters light, making the light appear softer. DIGAMIES (12) DIGAMIST (12) DIGAMMAS (14) [noun] Letter of the Old Greek alphabet: Ϝ, ϝ DIGAMOUS (12) DIGESTED (11) [verb] To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. | [verb] To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. | [verb] To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. DIGESTER (10) [noun] One who, or that which, digests. | [noun] A medicine or food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. | [noun] A strong closed vessel in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them. DIGESTOR (10) DIGGINGS (12) [noun] The action performed by a person or thing that digs. | [noun] A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained. | [noun] Region; locality DIGHTING (14) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DIGITALS (10) DIGITATE (10) [verb] To point out as with the finger. | [verb] To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner. | [adjective] Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike DIGITIZE (19) [verb] To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits | [verb] To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value | [verb] To finger. DIGOXINS (17) DIGRAPHS (15) [noun] A directed graph. | [noun] A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character. | [noun] A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme. DIHEDRAL (13) [noun] An angle between two plane surfaces | [noun] The upward slope of an aircraft's wing | [noun] The angle between pairs of chemical bonds separated by a third bond DIHEDRON (13) DIHYBRID (18) [noun] A hybrid that is heterozygous with respect to two independent alleles DIHYDRIC (18) [adjective] Containing two hydroxyl functional groups. DILATANT (9) DILATATE (9) DILATERS (9) DILATING (10) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DILATION (9) [noun] The act of dilating. | [noun] State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. | [noun] Delay. DILATIVE (12) DILATORS (9) [noun] Any nerve or muscle that causes part of the body to dilate | [noun] Any drug that causes such dilation | [noun] An instrument used to dilate an orifice or cavity DILATORY (12) [adjective] Relating to dilation; dilative | [adjective] Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision. | [adjective] Slow or tardy. DILEMMAS (13) [noun] A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable. | [noun] A difficult circumstance or problem. | [noun] A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true". DILEMMIC (15) DILIGENT (10) [adjective] Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused. DILUENTS (9) [noun] That which dilutes. | [noun] A solvent or other liquid preparation used to dilute a sample prior to testing. | [noun] An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink. DILUTERS (9) DILUTING (10) [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. | [verb] To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares. DILUTION (9) [noun] The process of making something dilute. | [noun] A solution that has had additional solvent, such as water, added to it into order to make it less concentrated. | [noun] The process of bringing in unskilled workers to replace skilled ones, for example during wartime. DILUTIVE (12) [adjective] Causing dilution. DILUTORS (9) DILUVIAL (12) [adjective] Relating to or produced by a flood or deluge. | [adjective] Pertaining to Noah's Flood. DILUVIAN (12) [adjective] Pertaining to a deluge, or flood; diluvial DILUVION (12) DILUVIUM (14) DIMERISM (13) DIMERIZE (20) [verb] To produce, or to undergo dimerization DIMEROUS (11) [adjective] In two parts; having two parts in each whorl of a flower. | [adjective] Having two-jointed tarsi. DIMETERS (11) [noun] A line in a poem having two metrical feet. | [noun] A poetic metre in which each line has two feet. DIMETHYL (17) DIMETRIC (13) [adjective] Tetragonal | [adjective] (technical drawing) axonometric | [adjective] Exhibiting dimeter DIMINISH (14) [verb] To make smaller. | [verb] To become smaller. | [verb] To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming). DIMITIES (11) DIMMABLE (15) DIMORPHS (16) DIMPLIER (13) DIMPLING (14) [verb] To create a dimple in. | [verb] To create a dimple in one's face by smiling. | [verb] To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities. DINDLING (11) DINETTES (9) [noun] A small space within a dwelling, usually alongside a kitchen, used for informal dining; a dining alcove or nook. | [noun] A submarine's mess hall. | [noun] Furniture for an indoor informal dining space, usually consisting of chairs and a small table. DINGBATS (12) [noun] A silly, crazy or stupid person. | [noun] A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc. | [noun] An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars. DINGDONG (12) [noun] An idiot. | [noun] A penis. | [noun] A woman's breast. DINGHIES (13) [noun] A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. | [noun] An inflatable rubber life raft. DINGIEST (10) [adjective] Drab; shabby; dirty; squalid DINGUSES (10) [noun] A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor. | [noun] A fool or incompetent person. | [noun] Penis DINKIEST (13) [adjective] Tiny and cute; small and attractive. | [adjective] Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable. DINOSAUR (9) [noun] In scientific usage, any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. | [noun] In non-scientific usage, any non-avian dinosaur. | [noun] Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago. DIOBOLON (11) DIOCESAN (11) [noun] The bishop of a diocese. | [noun] An inhabitant of a diocese. | [adjective] Pertaining to a diocese. DIOCESES (11) [noun] Administrative division of the later Roman Empire, starting with the tetrarchy. | [noun] Region administered by a bishop. DIOECIES (11) DIOECISM (13) DIOICOUS (11) DIOLEFIN (12) DIOPSIDE (12) [noun] A monoclinic pyroxene mineral, a magnesium calcium silicate with the chemical formula CaMgSi2O6, found in igneous and metamorphic rocks. DIOPTASE (11) [noun] An intense emerald-green to bluish-green copper cyclosilicate mineral. DIOPTERS (11) [noun] A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters. | [noun] The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars. | [noun] Any lens system, such as a telescope. DIOPTRAL (11) DIOPTRES (11) [noun] A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters. | [noun] The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars. | [noun] Any lens system, such as a telescope. DIOPTRIC (13) [noun] (in the plural) The branch of optics concerned with refraction. | [noun] A dioptric telescope. | [adjective] Pertaining to a diopter. DIORAMAS (11) [noun] A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape. DIORAMIC (13) DIORITES (9) DIORITIC (11) DIOXANES (16) DIOXIDES (17) [noun] Any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule. DIPHASIC (16) DIPHENYL (17) DIPLEGIA (12) [noun] Paralysis that affects symmetrically opposed parts of the body. DIPLEXER (18) DIPLOIDS (12) [noun] A cell which is diploid. | [noun] An organism with diploid cells. DIPLOIDY (15) DIPLOMAS (13) [noun] A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study. DIPLOMAT (13) [noun] A person, such as an ambassador, who is accredited to represent a government officially in its relations with other governments or international organisations | [noun] Someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people DIPLONTS (11) DIPLOPIA (13) [noun] An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images; double vision. DIPLOPIC (15) DIPLOPOD (14) DIPLOSES (11) DIPLOSIS (11) DIPNOANS (11) DIPODIES (12) DIPPABLE (15) DIPPIEST (13) [adjective] Lacking common sense. | [adjective] Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about. | [adjective] Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping. DIPSADES (12) DIPSTICK (17) [noun] A stick or rod used to measure the depth of a liquid. Often used to check the level at which a liquid in an opaque or inaccessible tank or reservoir stands; gauge. | [noun] A penis. | [noun] A useless person of inferior intellect; a dipshit. DIPTERAL (11) [adjective] Having two wings only. | [adjective] Belonging to the order of insects Diptera. | [adjective] Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear, often said of a temple. DIPTERAN (11) [noun] An insect of the large order Diptera; a fly. | [adjective] Relating to or denoting dipterans. DIPTERON (11) DIPTYCAS (16) DIPTYCHS (19) [noun] A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. | [noun] A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges. | [noun] A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church. DIRECTED (12) [verb] To manage, control, steer. | [verb] To aim (something) at (something else). | [verb] To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. DIRECTER (11) DIRECTLY (14) [adverb] In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. | [adverb] In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct means. | [adverb] Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms. DIRECTOR (11) [noun] One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director). | [noun] A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide. | [noun] That which directs or orientates something. DIRENESS (9) DIRGEFUL (13) DIRIMENT (11) DIRTBAGS (12) [noun] A dirty, grimy, sleazy, or disreputable person | [noun] (climbing) A poor climber, alpinist, skier or other outdoorsman who lives cheaply, without normal employment, and with few amenities in order to spend as much time on their sport as possible. Used praisingly. DIRTIEST (9) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DIRTYING (13) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DISABLED (12) [verb] To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling. | [verb] (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury. | [verb] To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device). DISABLES (11) [verb] To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling. | [verb] (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury. | [verb] To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device). DISABUSE (11) [verb] To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (somebody). DISAGREE (10) [verb] To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief. | [verb] To fail to conform or correspond with. DISALLOW (12) [verb] To refuse to allow | [verb] To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper DISANNUL (9) [verb] To annul, do away with; to cancel. DISARMED (12) [verb] To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. | [verb] To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous | [verb] To lay down arms; to stand down. DISARMER (11) [noun] A proponent of disarmament. DISARRAY (12) [noun] Lack of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. | [noun] Confused attire; undress; dishabille. | [verb] To throw into disorder; to break the array of. DISASTER (9) [noun] An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment. | [noun] An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind. DISAVOWS (15) [verb] To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. | [verb] To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. DISBANDS (12) [verb] To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse. | [verb] To loose the bands of; to set free. | [verb] To divorce. DISBOSOM (13) DISBOUND (12) [verb] To extend beyond its normal bounds | [adjective] (of a page) removed from a bound volume DISBOWEL (14) DISBURSE (11) [verb] To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury. DISCANTS (11) DISCARDS (12) [noun] Anything discarded. | [noun] A discarded playing card in a card game. | [noun] A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. DISCASED (12) DISCASES (11) DISCEPTS (13) DISCERNS (11) [verb] To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. | [verb] To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry. | [verb] To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate. DISCIPLE (13) [noun] A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others. | [noun] An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc. | [noun] A wretched, miserable-looking man. DISCLAIM (13) [verb] To renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. | [verb] To deny, as a claim; to refuse. | [verb] To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. DISCLIKE (15) [adjective] Resembling a disc or some aspect of one. DISCLOSE (11) [noun] A disclosure. | [verb] To open up, unfasten. | [verb] To uncover, physically expose to view. DISCOIDS (12) [noun] A disk-shaped dental excavator designed to remove the carious dentin of a decayed tooth DISCOING (12) [verb] To dance disco-style dances. | [verb] To go to discotheques. DISCOLOR (11) [verb] To change or lose color. DISCORDS (12) [noun] Lack of concord, agreement or harmony. | [noun] Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension. | [noun] An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance. DISCOUNT (11) [noun] A reduction in price. | [noun] A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money. | [noun] The rate of interest charged in discounting. DISCOVER (14) [verb] To find or learn something for the first time. | [verb] To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.). | [verb] To expose, uncover. DISCREET (11) [adjective] Respectful of privacy or secrecy; exercising caution in order to avoid causing embarrassment; quiet; diplomatic. | [adjective] Not drawing attention, anger or challenge; inconspicuous. DISCRETE (11) [adjective] Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous. | [adjective] That can be perceived individually and not as connected to, or part of something else. | [adjective] Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resisters, as opposed to integrated circuitry. DISCROWN (14) DISCUSES (11) [noun] A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport. | [noun] The athletics sport of discus throwing. | [noun] (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon) DISDAINS (10) [verb] To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt. | [verb] To be indignant or offended. DISEASED (10) [verb] To cause unease; to annoy, irritate. | [verb] To infect with a disease. | [adjective] Affected with or suffering from disease. DISEASES (9) [noun] An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. | [noun] (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc. | [noun] Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. DISENDOW (13) [verb] To deprive of an endowment. DISEUSES (9) DISFAVOR (15) [noun] Lack of favour; displeasure. | [noun] An unkindness; a disobliging act. | [noun] A state of being out of favour. DISFROCK (18) [verb] To remove from status as a member of a clergy; to unfrock. DISGORGE (11) [verb] To vomit or spew, to discharge. | [verb] To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly. | [verb] To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise. DISGRACE (12) [noun] The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. | [noun] The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame. | [noun] Something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit. DISGUISE (10) [noun] Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another. | [noun] The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath. | [noun] The act of disguising, notably as a ploy. DISGUSTS (10) [verb] To cause an intense dislike for something. DISHELMS (14) DISHERIT (12) DISHEVEL (15) [verb] To throw into disorder; upheave. | [verb] To disarrange or loosen (hair, clothing, etc.). | [verb] To spread out in disorder. DISHFULS (15) DISHIEST (12) [adjective] Attractive; good-looking; sexy. | [adjective] Tending to relay information and gossip. DISHLIKE (16) DISHONOR (12) [noun] Shame or disgrace. | [noun] Lack of honour or integrity. | [noun] Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill of exchange or note, to accept it or, if it is accepted, to pay and retire it. DISHPANS (14) [noun] A large basin or pan with a flat bottom in which dishes are washed. DISHRAGS (13) [noun] A piece of cloth used for washing dishes. | [noun] An unclean person; used in similes. DISHWARE (15) DISINTER (9) [verb] To take out of the grave or tomb. | [verb] To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. DISJECTS (18) DISJOINS (16) [verb] To separate; to disunite. | [verb] To become separated. DISJOINT (16) [verb] To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection. | [verb] To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent. | [verb] To fall into pieces. DISJUNCT (18) [noun] The state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect. | [noun] One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction). | [noun] Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence. DISKETTE (13) [noun] A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data. | [noun] An 8-inch floppy disk. DISKLIKE (17) [adjective] Resembling a disk or some aspect of one. DISLIKED (14) [verb] To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.) | [verb] To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like. | [verb] To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet. DISLIKER (13) DISLIKES (13) [noun] An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to). | [noun] An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet. DISLIMNS (11) DISLODGE (11) [verb] To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied. | [verb] To move or go from a dwelling or former position. | [verb] To force out of a secure or settled position. DISLOYAL (12) [adjective] Not loyal, without loyalty. DISMALER (11) DISMALLY (14) [adverb] In a dismal manner. DISMASTS (11) [verb] To break off the mast (of a ship), especially by gunfire. DISMAYED (15) [verb] To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy | [verb] To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. | [verb] To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. DISMOUNT (11) [noun] The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus. | [verb] To (cause to) get off (something). | [verb] To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use. DISOBEYS (14) [verb] To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody). | [verb] To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey. DISORDER (10) [noun] Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner. | [noun] A disturbance of civic peace or of public order. | [noun] A physical or mental malfunction. DISOWNED (13) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DISPARTS (11) DISPATCH (16) [noun] A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer. | [noun] The act of doing something quickly. | [noun] A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field. DISPENDS (12) DISPENSE (11) [noun] Cost, expenditure. | [noun] The act of dispensing, dispensation. | [verb] To issue, distribute, or give out. DISPERSE (11) [verb] To scatter in different directions | [verb] To break up and disappear; to dissipate | [verb] To disseminate DISPIRIT (11) [verb] To lower the morale of; to make despondent; to dishearten. DISPLACE (13) [verb] To put out of place; to disarrange. | [verb] To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland. | [verb] To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute. DISPLANT (11) DISPLAYS (14) [noun] A show or spectacle. | [noun] A piece of work to be presented visually. | [noun] An electronic screen that shows graphics or text. DISPLODE (12) DISPLUME (13) [verb] To deprive of feathers or plumes. | [verb] To strip of an award. DISPORTS (11) [verb] To amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; in particular, to cavort or gambol. DISPOSAL (11) [noun] An arrangement, categorization or classification of things. | [noun] A disposing of or getting rid of something. | [noun] The power to use something or someone. DISPOSED (12) [verb] (used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something. | [verb] To distribute or arrange; to put in place. | [verb] To deal out; to assign to a use. DISPOSER (11) DISPOSES (11) [verb] (used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something. | [verb] To distribute or arrange; to put in place. | [verb] To deal out; to assign to a use. DISPREAD (12) DISPRIZE (20) DISPROOF (14) [noun] A refutation. DISPROVE (14) [verb] To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. DISPUTED (12) [verb] To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another | [verb] To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss | [verb] To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of DISPUTER (11) DISPUTES (11) [noun] An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree. | [noun] Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate. | [verb] To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another DISQUIET (18) [noun] Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind | [verb] To make (someone or something) worried or anxious. | [adjective] Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy. DISRATED (10) [verb] To lower a rate or rating | [verb] To demote a sailor to a lower rank DISRATES (9) [verb] To lower a rate or rating | [verb] To demote a sailor to a lower rank DISROBED (12) [verb] To undress someone or something. | [verb] To undress oneself. DISROBER (11) DISROBES (11) [verb] To undress someone or something. | [verb] To undress oneself. DISROOTS (9) DISRUPTS (11) [verb] To throw into confusion or disorder. | [verb] To interrupt or impede. | [verb] To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market. DISSAVED (13) DISSAVES (12) DISSEATS (9) DISSECTS (11) [verb] To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy. | [verb] To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly. | [verb] To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts. DISSEISE (9) [verb] To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land). DISSEIZE (18) [verb] To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land). DISSENTS (9) [noun] Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion. | [noun] An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority. | [noun] (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case DISSERTS (9) DISSERVE (12) DISSEVER (12) [verb] To separate; to split apart. | [verb] To divide into separate parts. DISSOLVE (12) [noun] A form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next | [verb] To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding. | [verb] To destroy, make disappear. DISSUADE (10) [verb] To convince not to try or do. DISTAFFS (15) [noun] A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist. | [noun] The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun. | [noun] Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only. DISTAINS (9) DISTALLY (12) DISTANCE (11) [noun] The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line. | [noun] Length or interval of time. | [noun] The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities. DISTASTE (9) [noun] A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy. | [noun] Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. | [noun] Discomfort; uneasiness. DISTAVES (12) DISTENDS (10) [verb] To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell | [verb] To extend; to stretch out; to spread out. | [verb] To cause to swell. DISTICHS (14) [noun] A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense. | [noun] Any couplet. DISTILLS (9) [verb] To subject a substance to distillation. | [verb] To undergo or be produced by distillation. | [verb] To make by means of distillation, especially whisky. DISTINCT (11) [adjective] Capable of being perceived very clearly. | [adjective] Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from"). | [adjective] Noticeably different from others; distinctive. DISTOMES (11) DISTORTS (9) [verb] To bring something out of shape, to misshape. | [verb] To become misshapen. | [verb] To give a false or misleading account of DISTRACT (11) [verb] To divert the attention of. | [verb] To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction. | [adjective] Separated; drawn asunder. DISTRAIN (9) [verb] To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress. | [verb] To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property. | [verb] To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt. DISTRAIT (9) [adjective] Absent-minded, troubled, distracted DISTRESS (9) [noun] (Cause of) discomfort. | [noun] Serious danger. | [noun] An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. DISTRICT (11) [noun] An administrative division of an area. | [noun] An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature. | [noun] An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough. DISTRUST (9) [noun] Lack of trust or confidence. | [verb] To put no trust in; to have no confidence in. DISTURBS (11) [verb] To confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids. | [verb] To divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing. | [verb] To have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion. DISULFID (13) DISUNION (9) [noun] Separation of a union DISUNITE (9) [verb] To cause disagreement or alienation among or within. | [verb] To separate, sever, or split. | [verb] To disintegrate; to come apart. DISUNITY (12) [noun] The lack of unity or cohesion. DISUSING (10) DISVALUE (12) [noun] Harm, demerit | [verb] To regard something as having little or no value. | [verb] To undervalue; to depreciate. DISYOKED (17) DISYOKES (16) DITCHERS (14) DITCHING (15) [verb] To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained. | [verb] To discard or abandon. | [verb] To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. DITHEISM (14) [noun] A belief in two deities, which may be in conflict with each other. DITHEIST (12) DITHERED (13) [verb] To tremble, shake, or shiver with cold. | [verb] To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something. | [verb] To do something nervously. DITHERER (12) DITSIEST (9) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DITTOING (10) DITZIEST (18) [adjective] Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. DIURESES (9) DIURESIS (9) [noun] Excessive production of urine; polyuria. DIURETIC (11) [noun] A drug or a substance that increases the rate of urine excretion. | [adjective] Increasing the amount or frequency of urination. DIURNALS (9) DIVAGATE (13) [verb] To wander about. | [verb] To stray from a subject or theme. DIVALENT (12) [adjective] Having an atomic valence of 2. | [adjective] Having a vaccine valence of 2. DIVEBOMB (18) [verb] (of an aircraft) To bomb whilst in a steep dive. | [verb] (of a bird) To attack (especially the head of) a person or animal that strays into their territory. | [verb] (of a motorist) To overtake slower traffic by way of a more circuitous route, such as a pair of freeway exit and entrance ramps. DIVERGED (14) [verb] (of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path). DIVERGES (13) [verb] (of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path). DIVERTED (13) [verb] To turn aside from a course. | [verb] To distract. | [verb] To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) DIVERTER (12) DIVESTED (13) [verb] To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | [verb] To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | [verb] To undress. DIVIDEND (14) [noun] A number or expression that is to be divided by another. | [noun] A pro rata payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (eg, quarterly or annually). | [noun] Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.) DIVIDERS (13) [noun] An object that separates. | [noun] A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length. | [noun] The median or central reservation of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated. DIVIDING (14) [verb] To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. | [verb] To share (something) by dividing it. | [verb] (with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend). DIVIDUAL (13) DIVINELY (15) [adverb] In a divine manner. DIVINERS (12) DIVINEST (12) DIVINING (13) [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. | [verb] To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight. | [verb] To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod. DIVINISE (12) [verb] To make divine; to make godlike. DIVINITY (15) [noun] A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. | [noun] The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.] | [noun] A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man. DIVINIZE (21) [verb] To make divine; to make godlike. DIVISION (12) [noun] The act or process of dividing anything. | [noun] Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. | [noun] The process of dividing a number by another. DIVISIVE (15) [adjective] Having a quality that divides or separates DIVISORS (12) [noun] A number or expression that another is to be divided by. | [noun] An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times. DIVORCED (15) [verb] To legally dissolve a marriage between two people. | [verb] To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way. | [verb] To obtain a legal divorce. DIVORCEE (14) [noun] A person divorced. DIVORCER (14) DIVORCES (14) [noun] The legal dissolution of a marriage. | [noun] A separation of connected things. | [noun] That which separates. DIVULGED (14) [verb] To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known | [verb] To indicate publicly; to proclaim. DIVULGER (13) DIVULGES (13) [verb] To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known | [verb] To indicate publicly; to proclaim. DIVVYING (19) [verb] To divide into portions. DIZENING (19) DIZYGOUS (22) [adjective] Dizygotic DIZZIEST (27) [adjective] Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded. | [adjective] Producing giddiness. | [adjective] Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy. DIZZYING (31) [verb] To make dizzy, to bewilder. | [adjective] Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused, as of great speed or height. DJELLABA (18) [noun] A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa. DOBLONES (11) DOCILELY (14) DOCILITY (14) DOCKAGES (16) DOCKETED (16) [verb] To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. | [verb] To label a parcel, etc. | [verb] To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize. DOCKHAND (19) DOCKLAND (16) [noun] The land area surrounding a dock, especially the renovated or gentrified areas surrounding a former dock. DOCKSIDE (16) [noun] The area near a dock, or next to a docked ship. DOCKYARD (19) [noun] A place where ships are repaired or outfitted. DOCTORAL (11) [adjective] Relating to a doctorate. | [adjective] Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician. DOCTORED (12) [verb] To act as a medical doctor to. | [verb] To act as a medical doctor. | [verb] To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon. DOCTRINE (11) [noun] A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters. | [noun] The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text. DOCUMENT (13) [noun] An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support. | [noun] Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing. | [noun] A file that contains text. DODDERED (12) [verb] To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter. DODDERER (11) DODGIEST (11) [adjective] Evasive and shifty | [adjective] Unsound and unreliable | [adjective] Dishonest DODOISMS (12) DOESKINS (13) [noun] Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep. | [noun] The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather. DOGBANES (12) [noun] Any species of genus Apocynum, eponymous of the dogbane family Apocynaceae DOGBERRY (15) [noun] The berry of the dogwood. | [noun] Clintonia borealis DOGCARTS (12) [noun] A cart drawn by a dog. | [noun] A two wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two transverse seats back to back. The rear seat originally closed up to form a box for carrying dogs. DOGEARED (11) [verb] To fold the corner of a book's page. | [adjective] (of a page in a book) Bent or slightly ragged in appearance, especially due to having been read many times. | [adjective] (of a page in a book) Having the corner folded over, as a sort of bookmark. DOGEDOMS (13) DOGESHIP (15) DOGFACES (15) [noun] A foot soldier, especially during World War II. | [noun] An ugly person. | [noun] Either of two pierid butterflies of the New World genus Zerene. DOGFIGHT (17) [noun] A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters. | [noun] A fight between dogs. | [verb] To engage in a battle between fighter planes. DOGGEDLY (15) [adverb] In a way that is stubbornly persistent. | [adverb] Sullenly, gloomily DOGGEREL (11) [noun] A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure. | [adjective] Of a crude or irregular construction. (Originally applied to humorous verse, but now to verse lacking artistry or meaning.) DOGGIEST (11) [adjective] Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog. | [adjective] Fond of dogs. DOGGONED (12) [adjective] Damned by God. | [adjective] Used as an intensifier expressing anger. DOGGONER (11) DOGGONES (11) DOGGRELS (11) DOGHOUSE (13) [noun] Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog. | [noun] A structure of small size, similar to a doghouse, but offering useful shelter for a human. | [noun] Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse. DOGMATIC (14) [noun] One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric. | [adjective] Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction. | [adjective] Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal. DOGNAPED (13) DOGNAPER (12) DOGSBODY (16) [noun] A person who does menial work, a servant. | [verb] To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work: DOGSLEDS (11) [noun] A sled, pulled by dogs over ice and snow. DOGTEETH (13) [noun] A canine tooth | [noun] An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth. DOGTOOTH (13) [noun] A canine tooth | [noun] An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth. DOGTROTS (10) [noun] A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog. | [noun] A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house. | [noun] A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. DOGVANES (13) DOGWATCH (18) [noun] Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. | [noun] (by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty. DOGWOODS (14) [noun] Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel | [noun] The wood of such trees and shrubs. | [noun] A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world. DOLDRUMS (12) [noun] A slothful or stupid person. | [noun] Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack of interest; a situation where one feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise. | [noun] Usually preceded by the: the state of a sailing ship when it is impeded by calms or light, baffling winds, and is unable to make progress. DOLERITE (9) [noun] A fine-grained basaltic rock DOLESOME (11) DOLLOPED (12) [verb] To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops. | [verb] To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form. DOLLYING (13) [verb] To hit a dolly. | [verb] To move (an object) using a dolly. | [verb] To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly. DOLMADES (12) [noun] A dolma. DOLOMITE (11) [noun] A saline evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO3)2; it also exists as the rock dolostone. DOLOROSO (9) DOLOROUS (9) [adjective] Solemnly or ponderously sad. DOLPHINS (14) [noun] A carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of order Cetacea, famed for its intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans. | [noun] A fish, the mahi-mahi or dorado, Coryphaena hippurus, with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration. | [noun] A depiction of a fish, with a broad indented fin, usually embowed. DOMELIKE (15) DOMESDAY (15) [noun] The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times. | [noun] Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution. DOMESTIC (13) [noun] A house servant; a maid; a household worker. | [noun] A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent | [adjective] Of or relating to the home. DOMICILE (13) [noun] A home or residence. | [noun] A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. | [verb] To have a domicile in a particular place. DOMICILS (13) [noun] A home or residence. | [noun] A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. DOMINANT (11) [noun] The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. | [noun] The triad built on the dominant tone. | [noun] A gene that is dominant. DOMINATE (11) [adjective] Ruling; governing; prevailing | [adjective] Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance. | [adjective] Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation. DOMINEER (11) [verb] To rule over or control arbitrarily or arrogantly; to tyrannize. DOMINICK (17) DOMINIES (11) [noun] A schoolmaster, teacher. | [noun] A pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. DOMINION (11) [noun] Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy. | [noun] Predominance; ascendancy | [noun] (sometimes figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory. DOMINIUM (13) [noun] The ownership of a thing. DOMINOES (11) [noun] A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. | [noun] A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect. | [noun] A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face. DONATING (10) [verb] To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. DONATION (9) [noun] A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause. | [noun] The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. DONATIVE (12) [noun] A gift; a largess; a gratuity. | [noun] (ecclesiastical law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. | [adjective] Being or relating to a donation. DONATORS (9) DONENESS (9) [noun] The extent to which a food has been cooked. | [noun] The property of being finished; completion. DONGOLAS (10) DONNERED (10) [verb] To beat up; clobber; thrash. DONNIKER (13) DOODLERS (10) DOODLING (11) [verb] To draw or scribble aimlessly. | [verb] To drone like a bagpipe. | [noun] Something doodled; a careless sketch. DOOFUSES (12) [noun] A person with poor judgment and taste. DOOMSDAY (15) [noun] The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times. | [noun] Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution. | [adjective] Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction. DOOMSTER (11) [noun] Someone who predicts doom | [noun] A judge; a deemster. DOORBELL (11) [noun] A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building. | [noun] A button that actives an electric doorbell. | [verb] To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit. DOORJAMB (20) DOORKNOB (15) [noun] A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door. DOORLESS (9) DOORMATS (11) [noun] A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes. | [noun] Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes. DOORNAIL (9) [noun] A nail with a wide head, traditionally used in the construction and ornamentation of wooden doors. DOORPOST (11) [noun] Doorjamb DOORSILL (9) DOORSTEP (11) [noun] An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home. | [noun] One's immediate neighbourhood or locality. | [noun] A big slice, especially of bread. DOORSTOP (11) [noun] Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall. | [noun] A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door. | [noun] (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich. DOORWAYS (15) [noun] The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room. DOORYARD (13) [noun] The yard near the front or back door of a house DOPAMINE (13) [noun] A neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention, learning, and the brain’s pleasure and reward system. DOPEHEAD (15) DOPESTER (11) [noun] An individual who is from a street gang and sells drugs. DOPINESS (11) [noun] The characteristic of being dopey. DORHAWKS (19) DORKIEST (13) [adjective] Like a dork. DORMANCY (16) [noun] The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness. DORMIENT (11) DORMOUSE (11) [noun] Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae; also called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by some taxonomists. | [noun] Glis glis, the edible dormouse | [noun] Muscardinus avellanarius, the hazel dormouse. DORNECKS (15) DORNICKS (15) DORNOCKS (15) DORSALLY (12) DOSSERET (9) [noun] A cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church. DOSSIERS (9) [noun] A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content. DOTARDLY (13) DOTATION (9) DOTINGLY (13) DOTTEREL (9) [noun] A gullible fool. | [noun] Any of various small birds in the plover family Charadriidae; sometimes used interchangeably with plover. | [adjective] Decayed DOTTIEST (9) [adjective] Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile. | [adjective] Having an unsteady gait. | [adjective] Having many dots. DOTTRELS (9) DOUBLERS (11) DOUBLETS (11) [noun] A pair of two similar or equal things; couple. | [noun] One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). | [noun] In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event. DOUBLING (12) [verb] To multiply by two. | [verb] To fold over so as to make two folds. | [verb] To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. DOUBLOON (11) [noun] A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies. DOUBLURE (11) [noun] An elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in a book. | [noun] The reflexed margin of a trilobite carapace. DOUBTERS (11) [noun] One who doubts. DOUBTFUL (14) [noun] A doubtful person or thing. | [adjective] Subject to, or causing doubt. | [adjective] Experiencing or showing doubt, sceptical. DOUBTING (12) [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. | [verb] To harbour suspicion about; suspect. | [verb] To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend. DOUCEURS (11) [noun] Sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness. | [noun] Sweet speech: a compliment. | [noun] A sweetener: a gift offered to sweeten another's attitude, a tip or bribe. 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DOWNIEST (12) [adjective] Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | [adjective] Sharp-witted, perceptive. DOWNLAND (13) [noun] An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone. DOWNLINK (16) [noun] The transmission of a signal from a satellite to a receiving station on earth; or the means of this transmission. | [noun] Transmission of data from a network, usually wireless, to the user. | [verb] To transmit a signal from a satellite to a terrestrial receiving station. DOWNLOAD (13) [noun] A file transfer to the local computer. | [noun] A file that has been, or will be transferred in this way. | [verb] To transfer data from a remote computer (server) to a local computer, usually via a network. DOWNPIPE (16) [noun] The drainpipe that connects a roof-line gutter with the ground. DOWNPLAY (17) [verb] To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. 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DOWNWASH (18) [noun] Downward air turbulence caused by a propeller or jet, but especially by helicopter blades | [noun] The downward motion of air as a result of eddies behind a wing or chimney, etc. DOWNWIND (16) [adverb] In the same direction as the wind is blowing | [adverb] (+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind | [adverb] In the direction opposite that of landing in a traffic pattern DOWSABEL (14) DOXOLOGY (20) [noun] An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service. DOYENNES (12) [noun] A female doyen. | [noun] The senior or eldest female member of a group, especially one who is most or highly respected. | [noun] A woman who is highly experienced and knowledgeable in a particular field, subject, or line of work; expert DOZENING (19) DOZENTHS (21) DOZINESS (18) DRABBEST (13) DRABBETS (13) DRABBING (14) DRABBLED (14) [verb] To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud. | [verb] To fish with a long line and rod. DRABBLES (13) [noun] A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long. DRABNESS (11) DRACAENA (11) [noun] Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers. DRACHMAE (16) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. DRACHMAI (16) DRACHMAS (16) [noun] The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. | [noun] A coin worth one drachma. | [noun] An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams. DRACONIC (13) [adjective] Draconian. | [adjective] Relating to or suggestive of dragons. DRAFFIER (15) DRAFFISH (18) DRAFTEES (12) [noun] One who is drafted (into a military service, etc) DRAFTERS (12) DRAFTIER (12) [adjective] Characterized by gusts of wind; windy. | [adjective] (of a building etc.) Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts). DRAFTILY (15) DRAFTING (13) [verb] To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch. | [verb] To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing. | [verb] To write a law. DRAGGERS (11) [noun] Something that drags. | [noun] A trawler. | [noun] One who takes part in drag racing. DRAGGIER (11) [adjective] Moving or developing very slowly; tending to drag on; dull. DRAGGING (12) [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [verb] To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. | [verb] To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant. DRAGGLED (12) [verb] To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground | [adjective] Bedraggled. DRAGGLES (11) [verb] To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground DRAGLINE (10) [noun] A cable, cord, or rope used to drag an object; specifically, the line of a dragline excavator that drags the bucket. | [noun] Short for dragline excavator. DRAGNETS (10) [noun] A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. | [noun] (law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. DRAGOMAN (12) [noun] An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages. DRAGOMEN (12) [noun] An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages. DRAGONET (10) [noun] A small dragon. | [noun] Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera. DRAGOONS (10) [noun] A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted. | [noun] A carrier of a dragon musket. | [noun] A variety of pigeon. DRAGROPE (12) DRAGSTER (10) [noun] A heavily modified or custom-built vehicle used in drag racing. | [noun] One who takes part in drag racing. | [noun] A drag queen. DRAINAGE (10) [noun] A natural or artificial removal of fluid from a given area by its draining away. | [noun] A system of drains. DRAINERS (9) [noun] That which drains. | [noun] A frame or rack for allowing washed crockery etc to dry naturally. | [noun] A person who explores drains, tunnels, or sewers. DRAINING (10) [verb] To lose liquid. | [verb] To flow gradually. | [verb] To cause liquid to flow out of. DRAMATIC (13) [adjective] Of or relating to the drama. | [adjective] Striking in appearance or effect. | [adjective] Having a powerful, expressive singing voice. DRAMMING (14) DRAMMOCK (19) DRAMSHOP (16) DRAPABLE (13) DRATTING (10) DRAUGHTS (13) [noun] A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. | [noun] Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. | [noun] An act of drinking. DRAUGHTY (16) [adjective] Characterized by gusts of wind; windy. | [adjective] (of a building etc.) Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts). DRAWABLE (14) DRAWBACK (20) [noun] A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away. | [noun] A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee. | [noun] The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette. DRAWBARS (14) [noun] An open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. | [noun] A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. | [noun] A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull. DRAWBORE (14) DRAWDOWN (16) [noun] The act of reduction or depletion. | [noun] The result of reduction or depletion. | [noun] A change in hydraulic head in a well or other body of water. DRAWINGS (13) [noun] A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper. | [noun] (uncountable) The act of producing such a picture. | [noun] Such acts practiced as a graphic art form. DRAWLERS (12) DRAWLIER (12) DRAWLING (13) [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. | [verb] To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. DRAWTUBE (14) DRAYAGES (13) DREADFUL (13) [noun] A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style. | [noun] A journal or broadsheet printing such reports. | [noun] A shocking or sensational crime. DREADING (11) [verb] To fear greatly. | [verb] To anticipate with fear. | [verb] To be in dread, or great fear. DREAMERS (11) [noun] One who dreams. | [noun] Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic. | [noun] Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae. DREAMFUL (14) [adjective] Dreamy | [noun] As much as one can dream about. DREAMIER (11) [adjective] As in a dream; resembling a dream. | [adjective] Sexy; handsome; attractive | [adjective] Having a pleasant or romantic atmosphere. DREAMILY (14) DREAMING (12) [verb] To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. | [verb] To hope, to wish. | [verb] To daydream. DREARIER (9) [adjective] Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. | [adjective] Grievous, dire; appalling. DREARIES (9) DREARILY (12) DREDGERS (11) [noun] A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed. | [noun] One who fishes with a dredge. | [noun] A dredging machine. DREDGING (12) [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. | [verb] To bring something to the surface with a dredge. | [verb] (Usually with up) to unearth. DREGGIER (11) DREGGISH (14) DREIDELS (10) [noun] A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ, ג, ה, and ש or פ on each side, associated with and often used during Hanukkah. | [noun] A gambling game played using this top. DRENCHED (15) [verb] To soak, to make very wet. | [verb] To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force. | [adjective] Completely wet; sodden DRENCHER (14) DRENCHES (14) [verb] To soak, to make very wet. | [verb] To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force. DRESSAGE (10) [noun] The schooling of a horse. | [noun] An equestrian sport in which the horse and rider perform a test of specific movements in an arena, and are judged on the horse's obedience, acceptance of the bridle and of the rider's aids, gaits, impulsion, and the harmony between horse and rider. | [noun] An event or competition of the sport of dressage. DRESSERS (9) [noun] An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils. | [noun] An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror. | [noun] One who dresses in a particular way. DRESSIER (9) [adjective] Elegant, smart or stylish. | [adjective] Fond of dressing up; keen on fashion. DRESSILY (12) DRESSING (10) [noun] Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy. | [noun] A sauce, especially a cold one for salads. | [noun] Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc. | [verb] To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). DRIBBING (14) DRIBBLED (14) [verb] (basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly | [verb] To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool | [verb] To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle DRIBBLER (13) DRIBBLES (13) [noun] Drool; saliva. | [noun] A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle. | [noun] A small amount of a liquid. DRIBBLET (13) DRIBLETS (11) [noun] A small portion or part. | [noun] A small or petty sum. DRIFTAGE (13) DRIFTERS (12) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A person who moves from place to place or job to job. | [noun] A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker. | [noun] A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires. DRIFTIER (12) DRIFTING (13) [verb] To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc. | [verb] To move haphazardly without any destination. | [verb] To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel. DRIFTPIN (14) DRILLERS (9) DRILLING (10) [verb] To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool). | [verb] To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context. | [verb] To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts. | [noun] A long firearm with three (or rarely, four) barrels. | [noun] A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton; drill. DRINKERS (13) [noun] Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks. | [noun] Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis. | [noun] A device from which animals can drink. DRINKING (14) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRIPLESS (11) DRIPPERS (13) DRIPPIER (13) [adjective] Dripping or tending to drip. | [adjective] Rainy or wet. | [adjective] Maudlin, tiresome or annoying; DRIPPING (14) [verb] To fall one drop at a time. | [verb] To leak slowly. | [verb] To let fall in drops. DRIVABLE (14) [adjective] Capable of being driven (as a vehicle). | [adjective] Capable of being driven on safely or successfully (as a road or other surface). DRIVELED (13) [verb] To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool. | [verb] To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly; to drool. | [verb] To be weak or foolish; to dote. DRIVELER (12) [noun] One who drivels. DRIVEWAY (18) [noun] Short private road that leads to a house or garage. DRIVINGS (13) DRIZZLED (28) [verb] To rain lightly. | [verb] To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. | [verb] To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking. DRIZZLES (27) [noun] Light rain. | [noun] Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. | [noun] Water. DROLLERY (12) DROLLEST (9) [adjective] Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish. DROLLING (10) DROMONDS (12) [noun] A Byzantine bireme, similar to the chelandion, but used primarily for naval combat. DROOLING (10) [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. | [verb] To secrete any substance in a similar way. | [verb] To react to something with uncontrollable desire. DROOPIER (11) [adjective] Tending to droop; sagging; wilting. DROOPILY (14) DROOPING (12) [verb] To hang downward; to sag. | [verb] To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. | [verb] To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. DROPHEAD (15) [noun] A drophead coupé. DROPKICK (21) [noun] Kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground. | [noun] (pro wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and dropping down on them. | [verb] To score via a dropkick DROPLETS (11) [noun] A very small drop. DROPOUTS (11) [noun] Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course | [noun] Someone who has opted out of conventional society. | [noun] One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. DROPPERS (13) [noun] A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time. | [noun] One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief. | [noun] A software component designed to install malware on a target system. DROPPING (14) [verb] To fall in droplets (of a liquid). | [verb] To drip (a liquid). | [verb] Generally, to fall (straight down). DROPSHOT (14) [noun] In sports such as badminton, squash, tennis and volleyball, a lightly-struck shot that just lands into play. | [noun] In first-person shooters, the act of quickly switching from a standing position to a prone position while shooting at an opponent. DROPSIED (12) DROPSIES (11) [noun] Swelling, edema, often from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DROPWORT (14) [noun] A perennial herb, Filipendula vulgaris, closely related to meadowsweet. | [noun] Any plant of genus Oenanthe. | [noun] Any plant of genus Oxypolis. DROSERAS (9) [noun] Any of several carnivorous, flowering plants of the genus Drosera. DROSKIES (13) DROSSIER (9) DROUGHTS (13) [noun] A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. | [noun] (by extension) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. DROUGHTY (16) [adjective] Lacking rain. | [adjective] Dry; thirsty DROUKING (14) DROWNDED (14) DROWNERS (12) DROWNING (13) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWSIER (12) [adjective] Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness | [adjective] Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific. | [adjective] Boring. DROWSILY (15) DROWSING (13) [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. | [verb] To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) DRUBBERS (13) DRUBBING (14) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DRUDGERS (11) DRUDGERY (14) [noun] Tedious, menial, and exhausting work. DRUDGING (12) [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DRUGGETS (11) [noun] An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing. | [noun] A floor covering made of drugget. DRUGGIER (11) [adjective] Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc. DRUGGIES (11) [noun] A drug addict or abuser. DRUGGING (12) [verb] To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent. | [verb] To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone. | [verb] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. DRUGGIST (11) [noun] A manufacturer and vendor of drugs and medicines. DRUIDESS (10) DRUIDISM (12) DRUMBEAT (13) [noun] The beating of a drum. | [noun] The sound of a beating drum. | [noun] (by extension) A repetitive beating sound. DRUMBLED (14) DRUMBLES (13) DRUMFIRE (14) [noun] Heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire. DRUMFISH (17) [noun] Any fish of the family Sciaenidae; they make a loud noise by means of an air bladder. DRUMHEAD (15) [noun] The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic. | [noun] A drumhead cabbage. DRUMLIER (11) DRUMLIKE (15) DRUMLINS (11) [noun] An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift. DRUMMERS (13) [noun] One who plays the drums. | [noun] Travelling salesman | [noun] A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg). DRUMMING (14) [noun] The act of beating a drum. | [noun] A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten. | [noun] In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder. DRUMROLL (11) [noun] A sound produced by hitting a drum repeatedly and rhythmically over short intervals. DRUNKARD (14) [noun] (somewhat derogatory) A person who is habitually drunk. DRUNKEST (13) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRUPELET (11) [noun] One of the small drupe-like subdivisions which compose the outer layer of certain fruit such as blackberries or raspberries. DRUTHERS (12) [noun] (often jocular) Wishes, preferences, or ways. DRYPOINT (14) [noun] A technique of intaglio printmaking similar to engraving in which an image is incised into a plate by scratching the surface with a hard, sharp metal (or diamond) point. | [noun] The needle used in this technique. | [noun] A print made using this technique. 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DULCIMER (13) [noun] A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal. It is played on the lap or horizontally on a table. Some have their own legs. These musical instruments are played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers). DULCINEA (11) DULLARDS (10) [noun] A stupid person; a fool. DULLNESS (9) [noun] The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity. | [noun] The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome. | [noun] Lack of interest or excitement. DUMBBELL (15) [noun] A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end. | [noun] A stupid person. DUMBCANE (15) DUMBHEAD (17) [noun] A stupid person. DUMBNESS (13) DUMFOUND (15) [verb] To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless. 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DUTIABLE (11) [noun] Any dutiable item. | [adjective] On which duty must be paid when imported or sold. DUUMVIRI (14) DUUMVIRS (14) [noun] One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome. DUVETINE (12) DUVETYNE (15) DUVETYNS (15) DUXELLES (16) [noun] A finely chopped mixture of mushrooms, onions, shallots and herbs sautéed in butter and reduced to a paste, used in stuffings and sauces (as in beef Wellington) or as a garnish. DWARFEST (15) DWARFING (16) [verb] To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version). | [verb] To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny. | [verb] To make appear insignificant. DWARFISH (18) DWARFISM (17) [noun] The condition of being a dwarf. DWELLERS (12) [noun] An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen. DWELLING (13) [noun] A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home. | [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). 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