7-letter words that end in an
- dakotan — of or relating to Dakota or its inhabitants
- dantean — of or relating to Dante or his writings.
- darshan — the meeting of a devotee of Hinduism with a holy person or guru
- day man — a seaman who is a member of a deck gang.
- daysman — an adjudicator, judge, or intermediary
- deadman — a heavy plate, wall, or block buried in the ground that acts as an anchor for a retaining wall, sheet pile, etc, by a tie connecting the two
- deadpan — Deadpan humour is when you appear to be serious and are hiding the fact that you are joking or teasing someone.
- deckman — A man who works on the deck of a ship.
- decuman — a huge wave
- deskman — a person who works at a desk in a workplace, esp the police sergeant in charge in a police station or a copy editor in a news office
- dextran — a polysaccharide produced by the action of bacteria on sucrose: used as a substitute for plasma in blood transfusions
- dhahran — a town in E Saudi Arabia: site of the original discovery of oil in the country (1938)
- dingaan — died 1840, Zulu chief (1828–40), who fought the Boer colonists in Natal
- dipnoan — belonging or pertaining to the order Dipnoi, comprising the lungfishes.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- dishpan — a large pan in which dishes, pots, etc., are washed.
- dockman — A man who works on a dock.
- donovan — William Joseph ("Wild Bill") 1883–1959, U.S. lawyer and military officer: organizer and director of the OSS 1942–45.
- doorman — the door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and may perform minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- doryman — a person who uses a dory, especially a person who engages in fishing, lobstering, etc.
- drayman — a person who drives a dray.
- drogman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- dulcian — an organ-stop consisting of pipes made of reeds
- dunstan — Saint, a.d. c925–988, English statesman: archbishop of Canterbury 961–978.
- dustman — a person employed to remove or cart away garbage, refuse, ashes, etc.; garbage collector.
- dustpan — a short-handled shovellike utensil into which dust is swept for removal.
- eastman — George, 1854–1932, U.S. philanthropist and inventor in the field of photography.
- edelman — Gerald Maurice, 1929–2014, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1972.
- eijkman — Christiaan (ˈkriːstiːˌaːn). 1858–1930, Dutch physician, who discovered that beriberi is caused by nutritional deficiency: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1929
- elysian — of or relating to Elysium
- emiscan — a computerized radiological technique for examining the soft tissues of the body, esp the brain, to detect the presence of tumours, abscesses, etc
- end man — a man at the end of a row
- epizoan — Alternative form of epizoon.
- erdoğan — Recep Tayyip (reˈdʒep tɑjˈjip). born 1954, Turkish statesman; prime minister (2003–14); president from 2014
- eşfahān — city in WC Iran: capital of Persia in the 17th cent.: pop. 1,127,000
- etesian — Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.
- etonian — a pupil of Eton College
- euboean — of or relating to the Greek island of Euboea
- excelan — Manufacturers of intelligent Ethernet cards. Software and addresses are down-loadable. The cards have their own RAM for buffers.
- exurban — Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb.
- fa xian — original name Sehi. 5th century ad, Chinese Buddhist monk: his pilgrimage to India (399–414) began relations between China and India
- faceman — a miner who works at the coalface, esp one who uses explosives
- fan-tan — Also, fan tan. Also called parliament, sevens. Cards. a game in which the players play their sevens and other cards forming sequences in the same suits as their sevens, the winner being the player who first runs out of cards.
- fat man — the code name for the plutonium-core, implosion-type atom bomb the U.S. first tested and then dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
- fatshan — Older Spelling. Foshan.
- feynman — Richard Phillips, 1918–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1965.
- fireman — a person employed to extinguish or prevent fires; firefighter.
- firepan — a metal grate for holding hot coals.
- flagman — a person who signals with a flag or lantern, as at a railroad crossing.
- flaxman — John, 1755–1826, English sculptor and draftsman.