7 Letter Words Starting With D

covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept. Note: Sometimes improperly used for dabbler; as, "I am but a dabster with gentle art.".

robbery by a gang of armed dacoits

a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The daisied green." Langhorne. The grass all deep and daisied. G.

robbery by a gang of armed dacoits

someone who wastes time

being unjustly brought into disrepute

a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac. Note: There are several varieties derived from different plants, esp. from a species of Turnera and from Bigelovia veneta. Wood & Bache.

To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to imparir. This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.

threatening with damnation

a young unmarried woman

a young unmarried woman

slightly wet

taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

dress like a dandy

in a dandy manner

One who dandles or fondles.

One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. " Danglers at toilets." Burke.

a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina

minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae

having spots or patches of color

antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases

Manacles; handcuffs. Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. Sir W. Scott. Note: In "The Steel Glass" by Gascoigne, printed in 1576, occurs the line "To binde such babes in father Derbies bands.".

Full af daring or of defiance; adveturous.

A crustade.

slightly dark

a special loved one

the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads

edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants

a loose and brightly colored African shirt

lively and spirited

A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock. Note: It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston (a)…

a despicable coward

any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens

that can be given a date; - C.W.Shumaker

A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.

the application of plaster

caused to show discomposure

One who daunts.

formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne

someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

the first light of day

a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

childcare during the day while parents work

any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day

lasting through an entire day

A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.

An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33.

a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky

the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

in a daze; in a dazed manner

having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light

(nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud

deliberately impassive in manner

method or manner of conduct in relation to others

the official residence of a dean

a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

causing or capable of causing death

a sound defeat

lowered in value

a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins)

someone who engages in debate

a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

having had the bones removed

march out (as from a defile) into open ground

put someone through a debriefing and make him report

Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.

a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles

Decalogue.

Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to…

cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones

damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless

A causer of decay.

the event of dying or departure from life

be false to; be dishonest with

the quality of being polite and respectable

A measure of area, the tenth part of an are; ten square meters.

a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity

recognizable; marked

One who decides.

the epithelial tissue of the endometrium

a number in the decimal system

recite in elocution

announce publicly or officially

To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class. North Am.

a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language

remove color from

propriety in manners and conduct

One who decoys another.

fixed or established especially by order or command; )

One who decrees. J.

A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

One who decries.

To deprive of a crown; to discrown.

convert code into ordinary language

Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell.

Tenfold. A number ten times repeated. To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.

One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.

one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel

act of failing to meet a financial obligation