Seven letter words change one or two letter to make a new word

respite

striped

diopter

adopted

adapter

redacts

chatter

clutter

glutted

Luddite

delight

tightly

ghostly

holster

lightly

tightly

playing off of “holster”, as “lightly” came in a tad late and also cannot be played off of “holster”:
steroid

destroy

roosted

booster