6-letter words containing d, e, p
- depill — to remove small, pill-like balls from (fabric): a video on how to depill a sweater. Compare pill1 (def 10).
- deploy — To deploy troops or military resources means to organize or position them so that they are ready to be used.
- depone — to declare (something) under oath; testify; depose
- deport — If a government deports someone, usually someone who is not a citizen of that country, it sends them out of the country because they have committed a crime or because it believes they do not have the right to be there.
- depose — If a ruler or political leader is deposed, they are forced to give up their position.
- depots — Plural form of depot.
- depths — a vast space or abyss
- depute — If you are deputed to do something, someone tells or allows you to do it on their behalf.
- deputy — A deputy is the second most important person in an organization such as a business or government department. Someone's deputy often acts on their behalf when they are not there.
- despot — A despot is a ruler or other person who has a lot of power and who uses it unfairly or cruelly.
- dewlap — a loose fold of skin hanging from beneath the throat in cattle, dogs, etc
- diaper — A diaper is a piece of soft towel or paper, which you fasten round a baby's bottom in order to soak up its urine and faeces.
- dieppe — a seaport in N France, on the English Channel: raided by an Allied expeditionary force August 1942.
- dimple — a small, natural hollow area or crease, permanent or transient, in some soft part of the human body, especially one formed in the cheek in smiling.
- diplex — pertaining to the simultaneous operation of two radio transmitters or to the simultaneous reception and transmission of radio signals over a single antenna through the use of two frequencies.
- diploe — the cancellate bony tissue between the hard inner and outer walls of the bones of the cranium.
- dipmet — Diploma in Metallurgy
- dipnet — Alt form dip net.
- dipole — Physics, Electricity. a pair of electric point charges or magnetic poles of equal magnitude and opposite signs, separated by an infinitesimal distance.
- dipped — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- dipper — the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Major resembling a dipper in outline.
- dispel — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- disple — (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
- dopers — Plural form of doper; users of dope.
- dopest — Superlative form of dope.
- dopier — Comparative form of dopy.
- dopper — (in South Africa) a member of the most conservative Afrikaner Church, which practises a strict Calvinism
- doppie — a cartridge case
- dorper — one of a breed of sheep having a black face and white body, developed in South Africa from the Dorset Horn and black-headed Persian breeds and raised for meat.
- draped — Simple past tense and past participle of drape.
- draper — Henry, 1837–82, U.S. astronomer.
- drapes — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drapet — a cloth
- drapey — Tending to form drape-like folds.
- drempt — Nonstandard spelling of dreamt.
- drupes — Plural form of drupe.
- du pre — Jacqueline [zhak-leen] /ʒækˈlin/ (Show IPA), 1945–87, English cellist.
- dumped — Simple past tense and past participle of dump.
- dumpee — a person who is rejected
- dumper — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
- dumple — (transitive) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
- dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
- duplet — Chemistry. two electrons occupying the same orbital in an atom or molecule; two electrons working together, especially forming a nonpolar covalent bond between atoms.
- duplex — duplex apartment.
- dupped — to open.
- dupper — Alternative form of dubber (a kind of bottle).
- elapid — (zoology) Any of many species of snakes of the family Elapidae, including the cobras, mambas, and coral snakes.
- eloped — Simple past tense and past participle of elope.
- end up — arrive somewhere
- endcap — A cap placed on the end of something.