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| Word | Definition |
| dabchick | small grebe |
| daboya | large Indian viper |
| dacnomania | obsession with killing |
| dacoitage | robbery by gang or mob |
| dacryops | wateriness of the eyes |
| dactylioglyph | engraver of rings or of gems |
| dactyliology | study of rings |
| dactyliomancy | divination by means of a finger |
| dactylogram | fingerprint |
| dactylography | the study of fingerprints |
| dactyloid | like or resembling a finger |
| dactylology | study of sign language |
| dactylomancy | divination using rings |
| dactylomegaly | condition of having abnormally large digits |
| dactylonomy | counting using the fingers and toes |
| dactyloscopy | comparing fingerprints for purpose of identification |
| dado | large wooden moulding along bottom of wall |
| daedal | formed with art; displaying inventive skill |
| daedalist | aviator; pilot |
| dag | dirty tatted tuft of sheep's wool |
| dageraad | brightly coloured South African fish |
| dal | a dried legume, such as lentils, beans or peas |
| dalmatic | ecclesiastical robe or other outer vestment |
| dalton | unit of atomic mass |
| damascene | decorate or engrave metal with wavy lines and patterns |
| damask | fine lustrous fabric with flat patterns and a satin weave |
| damine | having antlers like a fallow deer |
| dammar | hard resin used in making varnish |
| damnification | causation of injury or loss |
| damoiseau | male form of damsel; a young man not yet dubbed a knight |
| damson | dark brownish purple |
| dancetté | deeply indented |
| danism | lending money on usury |
| dap | to dip gently into water; to fish with a surface fly |
| dapatical | lavish; sumptuous; costly |
| daphnomancy | divination using a laurel |
| dapifer | one who brings meat to the table |
| dapocaginous | mean-spirited; heartless |
| darbies | handcuffs |
| darby | large trowel for levelling concrete or plaster |
| darcy | unit of permeability of rock to various substances |
| darkle | to grow or make dark |
| darraign | to vindicate; to justify or prove |
| dash | non-specific very small unit of measurement used in cooking |
| dashpot | shock absorber |
| dasypeltis | small African egg-eating snake |
| dasyphyllous | having crowded, thick or woolly leaves |
| dasypoedes | types of birds having downy-feathered young |
| dasyure | flesh-eating marsupial |
| datary | papal officer who registers and dates bulls and edicts |
| dation | act of giving, conferring or donating |
| dative | indicating indirect object of a verb |
| davenport | small ornamental writing desk; large sofa |
| davit | device for hoisting and lowering a boat |
| daw | simpleton; bird of the crow family |
| deaconing | act of putting best looking goods on top of pile |
| deadeye | rounded wooden block with hole used to set up ship's stays |
| deadhouse | mortuary |
| deadstock | farm equipment |
| deadwood | timbers built into ends of ship when too narrow to permit framing |
| dealate | insect divested of its wings |
| dealbation | whitening; bleaching |
| deambulatory | place for walking around or about in |
| dearticulate | to disjoint |
| deasil | sunwise motion |
| debarrass | to disembarrass; disentangle; free |
| debel | to conquer in war |
| debellate | to conquer or overcome through battle |
| debouch | to issue or emerge; to flow from a confined place |
| debouchure | mouth of a river or strait |
| debridement | the removal of foreign matter from a wound |
| decadarchy | government by ten individuals; decarchy |
| decadist | author who writes works in ten parts |
| decalcomania | process of transferring a design onto a surface using specially prepared paper |
| decalescence | point in heating metal where it appears to cool |
| decalogist | exponent of rules such as the Ten Commandments |
| decalvant | removing hair; depilatory |
| decamerous | having parts in tens |
| decanal | located on south side of the choir in a church |
| decanal | of, like or pertaining to a dean or deacon |
| decantate | to chant or say repeatedly |
| decarchy | government by ten individuals |
| decare | 1000 square metres |
| decarnate | denied or deprived of physical bodily form |
| decastich | ten-line poem |
| decatise | to uncurl through the use of steam or moisture |
| decaudate | to cut off the tail of |
| decelerometer | instrument for measuring deceleration |
| decennoval | of, like or pertaining to the number nineteen |
| decession | departure |
| decimestrial | lasting ten months |
| deckle | ragged edge of paper |
| declassé | below one's social class |
| declinometer | instrument for measuring magnetic declination |
| declivity | place that slopes downwards; inclination downwards |
| decoct | to prepare or extract by boiling; to devise |
| decollate | to behead; to disorganize |
| decomplex | repeatedly compound |
| decorticate | to remove the bark, husk or peel of |
| decoupage | the application of paper cutouts to wood surfaces |
| decrassify | to make less crass or boorish |
| decrement | a gradual decrease in quantity or quality |
| decrepitate | to crackle; to roast so as to cause to crackle |
| decrescent | becoming gradually less |
| decretal | of, like or pertaining to a decree |
| decretal | papal decree deciding a point of church law |
| decrudescence | diminution or reduction of a disease |
| decuman | principle; large; primary |
| decumbent | lying down; reclining on the ground |
| decumbiture | the time spent by an invalid in bed |
| decurrent | extending or running downwards |
| decurtate | to curtail, shorten or abbreviate |
| decussate | to divide in the form of an X; to cross or intersect |
| dedans | spectators at a court tennis match |
| dedition | surrender; capitulation |
| deductivism | belief in the superiority of deduction over induction |
| deek | look at; see |
| deemster | judge on the Isle of Man |
| defalcate | to embezzle money held on trust |
| defeasible | that may be annulled |
| defenestration | throwing a person or object out a window |
| deferrise | to remove iron from |
| defervescence | abatement of heat; coolness; decrease of fever |
| defilade | to arrange fortifications against frontal attack |
| defiliation | depriving a parent of a child |
| definiens | word or words used in a dictionary definition |
| deflexure | deviation |
| deflocculate | to break down into small pieces |
| defluent | running down; decurrent |
| defluvium | falling of hair |
| dégagé | at rest; untroubled; at ease |
| deglutinate | to unglue or unstick |
| deglutition | the power or act of swallowing |
| degression | gradual decrease; reduction in taxes |
| dégringolade | rapid decline or decay; downfall |
| degu | rat-like rodent of South America |
| degustation | eating in a series of small portions |
| dehisce | to gape; to burst open |
| dehors | outside of |
| dehort | to dissuade |
| deicide | destruction or killing of a god |
| deictic | directly demonstrating something or some proposition |
| deiform | appearing like or shaped like a god |
| deiparous | bearing a god |
| deipnosophy | learned dinner-conversation |
| deipotent | having godlike power |
| deism | belief in God but rejection of religion |
| deixis | relating to time and place of a linguistic utterance |
| delactation | weaning |
| delaine | light fabric of wool or mixed wool and cotton |
| delaminate | to split into layers |
| delate | to pass on; to charge with a crime |
| delative | indicating motion downward |
| delectus | anthology of useful passages or quotations |
| delenda | things to be deleted or destroyed |
| deleterious | harmful to body or mind |
| delf | drain; ditch; excavation |
| delibate | to sip |
| deligation | bandaging |
| delignate | to remove wood from; to deprive of wood |
| deliquesce | to melt into liquid by absorbing moisture |
| deliration | madness; aberration |
| delirifacient | producing or creating delirium |
| delitescent | latent |
| deloo | north African antelope |
| delope | to fire one's gun into the air in a duel |
| delphically | enigmatically; obscurely |
| delphine | pertaining to the Dauphin of France |
| delphinine | of, like or pertaining to dolphins |
| deltiology | the collection and study of picture postcards |
| deltoid | shaped like a delta or triangle |
| delubrum | a font, a temple or shrine having a font |
| demagogue | political agitator appealing to popular prejudices |
| démarche | decisive course of action taken in diplomacy |
| demarchy | government by the people; popular government |
| demegoric | of, like or pertaining to demagogues or demagogic speech |
| démenti | official denial or refusal |
| demephitise | to purify air |
| demerge | to immerse; to plunge |
| demersal | subaqueous; living underwater; sinking to the bottom |
| demesne | feudal manor-house with adjacent lands |
| demicastor | beaver pelt of poor quality; beaver fur mixed with another type of fur |
| demigration | change of abode |
| demijohn | large bottle having a wicker case |
| demisang | half-breed; hybrid |
| demiurge | creative spirit or entity |
| demogenic | of, like or pertaining to membership by citizenship rather than kinship |
| demology | study of human behaviour |
| demonarchy | government by a demon |
| demonetise | to deprive of monetary value; to withdraw from circulation |
| demonocracy | government by demons or evil forces |
| demonography | study and description of demons |
| demonolatry | worship of or devotion to demons |
| demonology | study of demons |
| demonomancy | divination using demons |
| demonomania | pathological belief that one is possessed by demons |
| demonosopher | one who is inspired by a demon or devil |
| demonym | name for a resident of a place |
| demotic | of, like or pertaining to the common people |
| demulcent | emulsifier; something soothing |
| demurrage | delay of vessel's departure or loading with cargo |
| denary | one of ten; tenfold; of, like or pertaining to group of ten |
| dendriform | shaped like a tree |
| dendritiform | branched |
| dendrochronology | study of tree rings |
| dendroid | tree-like; resembling a tree |
| dendrolatry | worship of trees |
| dendrology | study of trees |
| dendrometer | instrument for measuring trees |
| dendrophilous | fond of trees |
| denehole | vertical shaft having chambers at the base |
| denier | unit of yarn fineness |
| dennet | light two-wheeled carriage |
| densimeter | instrument for measuring closeness of grain of a substance |
| densitometer | instrument for measuring optical or photographic density |
| dentagra | toothache |
| dentellated | having small notches or teeth |
| dentelle | lace; lacework |
| denticle | small toothlike structure |
| dentiform | shaped like a tooth |
| dentigerous | toothed; bearing teeth |
| dentiloquent | speaking with clenched teeth |
| dentine | ivory-like material making up teeth |
| dentiologist | one who speaks with closed teeth |
| dentirostral | with notched beak |
| deobstruent | something that removes an obstacle |
| deodate | a gift to or from God |
| deonerate | to disburden |
| deontic | of or relating to duty or obligation |
| deontology | the theory or study of moral obligation |
| deoppilate | to free from obstruction |
| deordination | abnormality or irregularity |
| deorsumversion | turning downwards |
| deosculate | to kiss affectionately |
| depascent | eating |
| depaysé | out of one's element or natural environment |
| depeculation | embezzlement of public funds |
| deponent | having a passive form but active meaning |
| depotentiate | to deprive or divest of power |
| deprehend | to catch; to seize |
| depurate | to purify |
| deracinate | to root up |
| deray | to go wild; to derange |
| deric | of, like or pertaining to the skin |
| dermatoglyphics | the study of skin patterns and fingerprints |
| dermatoid | like or resembling skin |
| dermatology | study of skin |
| dermographia | condition where writing on skin causes red mark to form |
| derodidymus | two-headed beast |
| derrick | hoisting mechanism using a boom and a central post |
| desacralise | to deprive or remove sacred qualities |
| descriptivism | doctrine that moral judgements are equivalent to descriptive judgements |
| descrive | to describe |
| desideratum | something which is greatly desired |
| desiderium | longing or yearning |
| desinent | terminal; ending |
| desipient | playing the fool; trifling |
| desman | large European muskrat |
| desmology | study of ligaments |
| désobligeante | carriage for one passenger |
| despoliation | despoiling; despoilment |
| despotocracy | government by despots or tyrants |
| despumate | to throw off impurities in foam; to skim; to remove scum |
| desquamate | to scale or flake off |
| desudation | extreme sweating |
| desuetude | state of disuse |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another; rambling; unplanned |
| detersion | the act of cleaning |
| detinue | wrongful seizure of property; action to recover it |
| detort | to untwist; to twist the other way |
| détraqué | a person who is deranged |
| detritivore | animal that eats decomposing organic matter |
| detritus | waste or debris |
| detrude | to thrust downward or outward |
| detumescence | diminution of swelling |
| deuteragonist | a person who serves as a foil to another |
| deuterogamy | second marriage after the death of the first wife |
| deuteropathy | second illness in addition to an initial one |
| deuteroscopy | second view or meaning; second sight |
| devall | to sink; to decline |
| devisee | one to whom property is bequeathed in a will |
| devoir | what is due; duty |
| dewlap | turkey's wattle; flap of skin under the throat |
| dexiotropic | turning to the right |
| dexter | relating to the right side of a heraldic shield |
| dexter | towards the right side |
| dextroduction | shifting the eyes from left to right |
| dextrogyratory | turning to the right |
| dhole | wild Indian dog |
| diable | unglazed earthenware casserole |
| diablerie | magic; sorcery; mischief |
| diabolocracy | government by the Devil |
| diabology | study of devils |
| diabrotic | corrosive |
| diacatholicon | panacea |
| diachoretic | laxative |
| diaclastic | refractory |
| diaconal | of, like or pertaining to a deacon |
| diaconicon | sacristy for sacred vessels in Orthodox churches |
| diacope | deep wound or incision |
| diacope | rhetorical separation of a compound word by a third word; tmesis |
| diacoustic | of, like or pertaining to the refraction of sound |
| diacritic | making a distinction; aiding a diagnosis or evaluation |
| diactinal | having two pointed ends |
| diadermic | of, like or pertaining to the puncturing of the skin |
| diadrom | course or passing; vibration |
| diaeresis | two dots placed over a vowel to indicate a syllable break (naïve) |
| diagenesis | production of rock out of sediment |
| diaglyph | figure etched or engraved in surface of gem or stone; intaglio |
| diagometer | instrument for measuring electrical conductivity |
| diagraph | instrument for enlarging or projecting drawings |
| diagraphics | art of making diagrams or drawings |
| dialectology | study of dialects |
| diallage | device in which many arguments brought upon one point |
| diallelus | circular argument |
| dialogism | rhetorical discussion in form of an imaginary dialogue |
| diamanté | glittering; decoration using glitter |
| diamantiferous | bearing diamonds |
| dianoetic | capable of, like or pertaining to thought |
| diaphanometer | instrument for measuring the transparency of air |
| diaphanous | transparent; translucent |
| diaphone | low-pitched fog signal consisting of two tones |
| diaphoresis | artificially induced sweat |
| diaporesis | rhetorical expression of uncertainty of which of two options to adopt |
| diapyesis | release or discharge of pus |
| diarchy | government by two people |
| diaskeuast | reviser; interpolator |
| diaspora | dispersion |
| diastema | space between teeth |
| diastomatic | moving through the pores |
| diastrophe | upheaval or drastic modification of the earth's crust |
| diasyrm | rhetorical device of condemning through faint praise |
| diatessaron | medicine of four ingredients |
| diathermic | permeable to or able to conduct radiant heat |
| diathesis | particular condition of body or mind; predisposing factor |
| diatyposis | rhetorically vivid and clear description of a subject |
| diaulos | ancient Greek double flute |
| dibatag | Somalian antelope with recurved horns |
| dibble | pointed tool for making holes for seeds or plants |
| dicacity | raillery; banter |
| dicaeology | defending oneself in argument by claiming justification |
| dicephalous | two-headed |
| dicephalus | conjoined twins with two heads |
| dicerous | two-horned; having two antennae |
| dichogamous | having males and females maturing at different rates |
| dichord | musical instrument with two strings |
| dichroscope | instrument for examining crystals for dichroism |
| didact | a person given to lecturing or moralizing |
| didapper | someone who disappears and bobs up again |
| didascalic | didactic; pertaining to education or teaching |
| diddicoy | itinerant tinker or scrap-dealer |
| didelphine | of, like or pertaining to opossums |
| didelphous | marsupial or pouched mammal |
| didgeridoo | Australian aboriginal instrument consisting of a long wood or bamboo tube |
| didine | of, like or pertaining to dodos |
| didymous | twin; twinned; growing in pairs |
| diectasis | extending line of verse by adding extra syllable |
| diegesis | the narration of facts |
| diesis | double dagger sign |
| diestrus | period of sexual inactivity |
| diffarreation | Roman form of divorce |
| differentia | property which distinguishes one from another |
| diffident | overly shy or modest |
| diffinity | lack of similarity or affinity |
| diffluent | readily flowing away |
| diffract | to break up into segments or portions |
| diffractometer | instrument for determining structure of crystal through light diffraction |
| diffrangible | capable of being diffracted or separated |
| diffugient | dispersing; diffusing |
| dight | disposed, adorned, clothed |
| digitate | having or resembling fingers |
| digitiform | shaped like a finger |
| digitigrade | walking on the toes alone |
| digitorium | silent piano for practicing |
| digladiate | to fight with swords; to fence |
| digonal | figure such that a half-turn gives the same figure |
| digoneutic | double brooded |
| digraph | two letters expressing a single sound |
| dijudicate | to judge; to decide |
| dik-dik | small east African antelope |
| dilacerate | to rend or tear asunder |
| dilaniate | to tear to pieces |
| dilatometer | instrument for measuring expansion |
| dilatory | slow; given to delay or procrastination |
| dilettante | dabbler or lover of fine arts |
| dilogical | ambiguous; having two meanings |
| dilogy | intentional ambiguousness |
| dilruba | Indian stringed instrument like a small sitar |
| diluent | diluting |
| diluvial | of, like or pertaining to floods; especially mythical ones |
| dimerous | consisting of two parts |
| dimidiate | divided into halves |
| dimissory | sending away or giving leave to depart; dismissing |
| dimity | sheer and stout white cotton |
| dinanderie | bronze-coloured metal alloy used for decorative vessels |
| dinarchy | government by two people; diarchy |
| dinic | of, like or pertaining to vertigo or dizziness |
| dinomania | mania for dancing |
| dinumeration | numbering of rhetorical points one by one |
| dioecious | having male and female sexual organs in different individuals |
| diogenic | cynical |
| dionym | name containing two parts or terms |
| dioptometer | instrument for measuring focus or refraction of the eyes |
| dioptre | unit of measurement of power of lens or eye |
| dioptric | transparent |
| dioptrics | study of light refraction |
| diorism | distinction; definition |
| diorthosis | a critical revision of a text; any correction or adjustment |
| diotic | affecting both ears |
| diphyletic | descended from two distinct ancestral groups |
| diphyodont | having second set of teeth that replaces the first |
| diphysitism | belief in the dual nature of Christ |
| diple | mark in margin of text to indicate rejected verses or new paragraph |
| dipleidoscope | instrument for measuring moment when an object passes a meridian |
| diplocephalus | two-headed monster |
| diplogenesis | doubling of ordinarily single organ or part |
| diplograph | instrument for writing two lines of text at once |
| diplomatics | science of deciphering ancient writings and texts |
| diplomatology | study of diplomats |
| diplopia | double vision |
| dipnoous | having both lungs and gills |
| dippydro | person who often changes mind |
| diprionidian | serrated on both sides |
| diprotodon | gigantic prehistoric marsupial with two incisors in lower jaw |
| dipsetic | causing to be thirsty |
| dipsomania | abnormal craving for alcohol |
| dipsosis | pathological great thirst |
| diptote | noun taking two grammatical cases only |
| diptych | pair of pictures on hinged panels; register of bishops and saints |
| diremption | separation into two; disjunction |
| dirigent | guiding |
| dirigible | able to be directed |
| dirigism | state control in economic and social spheres |
| diriment | condition of legal nullification |
| disafforest | to clear of forest; to disforest |
| disagio | fee charged for exchanging foreign or depreciated currency |
| disbosom | to make known; to reveal |
| discalced | without shoes; barefoot; a religious order wearing no shoes |
| discarnate | disembodied; separated from the body |
| discept | to dispute; to debate |
| discerptible | able to be separated |
| disciform | round or oval in shape |
| discigerous | bearing a disc or discus |
| discinct | ungirded |
| discission | open incision or cut |
| discobolus | discus thrower |
| discography | catalogue or listing of musical recordings |
| discomania | obsession for disco music |
| discombobulate | to disconcert; to upset |
| discommodious | inconvenient |
| discophile | one who loves and studies sound recordings |
| discophoran | of, like or pertaining to jellyfishes |
| discountenance | to abash; to discourage |
| disculpate | to free from blame |
| disembogue | to discharge or eject into the sea |
| disembrangle | to free from dispute |
| diseuse | female orator or reciter of verse |
| disgarnish | to despoil |
| disgeneric | being of a different genus |
| disgregation | separation; scattering |
| disillude | to free from illusion |
| disimmure | to liberate; to release from walls |
| disinure | to render unfamiliar |
| disjection | scattering or dispersion |
| disomus | monster with two bodies |
| disorbed | deprived of authority or sovereignty |
| dispendious | extravagant; expensive |
| dispiteous | pitiless; malicious |
| dispone | to set in order; dispose |
| disponge | to sprinkle or discharge as if from a sponge |
| disport | to play about, frolic or gambol |
| dispread | to spread in different ways |
| dispurvey | to deprive of provisions |
| disquisition | carefully argued examination of a topic |
| disseize | to seize or deprive of property wrongfully |
| dissentient | one who dissents; dissenter |
| dissepiment | partition or separation of tissue |
| dissilient | springing apart; bursting open with force |
| dissimulate | to pretend; to feign; to fake |
| dissolute | of loose morals; debauched |
| distaff | of, like or pertaining to the female branch of a family or women's work |
| distichous | in or having two rows |
| distraint | seizure of goods |
| distrait | distracted; inattentive |
| distributary | branch of river that flows away from the main stream |
| distributive | indicating separate members of a group, one at a time |
| dit | poem; words of a song |
| ditheism | belief in two equal gods, one good and one evil |
| ditheletism | doctrine that Christ had two wills |
| dithyrambic | passionate; ecstatic; frenzied |
| ditokous | producing two at a birth or in a clutch |
| ditrichotomous | divided into either two or three parts |
| dittography | unintentional repetition of letters in print |
| dittology | double reading or interpretation |
| diurnation | hibernating or sleeping during daylight |
| diutiurnal | lasting long |
| divagate | to digress; wander about |
| divaricate | to divide into two branches |
| divellent | drawing apart; pulling apart in pieces |
| diversiloquent | speaking in different ways; speaking on different subjects |
| diverticulum | blind passage or tunnel |
| divisim | separately |
| divulsion | act of pulling or rendering apart or away |
| dixit | individual's uncorroborated statement |
| dizen | to dress up; to dress gaudily |
| dobbin | workhorse |
| dobhash | interpreter |
| dobsonfly | soft-bodied insect with large mandibles |
| docimasy | scrutiny; assaying; application of tests |
| docimology | the art of assaying |
| doctiloquent | speaking learnedly |
| doddered | decayed with loss of branches |
| dodecafid | divisible into twelve parts or regions |
| dodecarchy | government by twelve people |
| dodger | shield against rain or spray on a ship's bridge |
| dodoism | stupid remark |
| dogcart | light two-wheeled carriage with seats back-to-back |
| dogwatch | a short, evening period of watch duty on a ship |
| doit | a trifle or minor thing |
| dol | unit for measuring intensity of pain |
| dolabrate | of, like or pertaining to axes or hatchets |
| dolabriform | resembling a hatchet or cleaver |
| dolee | one who receives a government benefit, especially unemployment benefits |
| dolent | mourning; doleful |
| dolichocephalic | long-headed |
| dolichopodous | having long feet |
| dolioform | shaped like a barrel |
| dolmen | prehistoric structure or tomb of unhewn stones |
| doloriferous | bearing grief or pain |
| dolorific | causing great sadness or sorrow |
| dolose | having evil or malicious intent |
| domal | of, like or pertaining to a house or dome |
| domett | plain cotton-wool blend |
| dominicide | killing or killer of one's master |
| dompteuse | female animal trainer |
| donary | thing given for a sacred purpose |
| donative | benefice presented to church without reference to bishop |
| donné | basic assumption or axiom; basic principle of an artwork |
| donnism | self-importance |
| donnybrook | an uproarious brawl |
| dontopedalogy | putting one's foot in one's mouth |
| doomster | judge; pessimist |
| dop | copper cup for holding a diamond while cutting it |
| doppio | double meter Renaissance dance step |
| doramania | obsession with owning furs |
| doria | striped cotton muslin |
| dormer | gabled window |
| dormition | falling asleep; death |
| dornick | stout linen |
| doromania | obsession with giving gifts |
| dorsad | towards the back |
| dorsiventral | having differentiated opposite faces or surfaces |
| doryphorus | sculpture of a spear-bearer |
| dos-a-dos | carriage where passengers seated back to back |
| dosimeter | instrument for measuring dose of radiation |
| dosimetry | measurement of doses of drugs |
| dosiology | the study of doses |
| dossal | ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| dossil | plug; spigot; wad of lint for wiping a wound |
| dotation | endowment or donation |
| douanier | customs official |
| doublette | copy of own artwork made by an artist |
| douc | southern Chinese monkey |
| doucet | savory tart baked in sweet dough |
| douceur | gentleness or sweetness; a subtly offered bribe |
| doulocracy | government by slaves |
| douroucouli | small South American nocturnal monkey |
| dowitcher | long-billed North American wading bird |
| dowlas | coarse linen |
| downhaul | rope for holding down or hauling down a sail or spar |
| doxastic | of, like or pertaining to opinion |
| doxographer | compiler of opinions of philosophers |
| doxology | hymn or verse of praise to God |
| drabbet | coarse linen |
| drabble | to besmear; bedraggle |
| draconiform | shaped like a dragon |
| draconites | jewel supposedly found inside a dragon's head |
| draffish | worthless |
| drageoir | box for holding sweetmeats |
| dragoman | interpreter |
| dragonism | unremitting watchfulness |
| dragonnade | persecution by military means |
| dragoon | to compel by military bullying; to compel by force |
| drail | iron bow of a plough; heavy fishhook |
| dramaturgy | art of producing and staging dramatic works |
| drap-de-Berry | old woollen cloth |
| drapetomania | intense desire to run away from home |
| dreadnought | heavy woollen cloth |
| dreamery | a place favourable to dreams |
| dree | to endure or withstand |
| dreikanter | three-faced pebble worn by wind |
| drepaniform | shaped like a sickle |
| drepanoid | like a sickle |
| drill | durable twilled cotton |
| dripstone | stone projection used to dispose of rainwater |
| dririmancy | divination by observing dripping blood |
| droguet | ribbed woollen dress fabric |
| drogulus | entity whose existence is unverifiable due to lack of physical effects |
| drollery | drollness; comic show; jest |
| dromestoners | persons who remove stones from temporary airfields |
| dromic | of, like or pertaining to a racecourse |
| dromomania | compulsive longing for travel |
| dromometer | instrument for measuring speed |
| dromond | large single-sailed ship powered by rowers |
| dromophobia | fear of crossing streets |
| droskhy | low four-wheeled open carriage |
| drosometer | instrument for measuring dew |
| drugget | coarse durable wool fabric |
| drumlin | long hill formed by glacial retreat |
| drung | narrow road or path to a pasture |
| drupaceous | of, like or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits |
| druxy | having decayed spots concealed by healthy wood |
| drygulch | to murder by pushing off a cliff |
| drysalter | seller of dry goods and chemicals |
| duarchy | government by two people; diarchy |
| duarf | fictitious nineteen-toed fish of Erewhon |
| dubiety | doubtfulness |
| dubitate | to doubt; to hesitate |
| dubitative | mood signifying doubt or incertitude |
| ducape | plain-woven stout silk fabric |
| ducdame | meaningless refrain |
| duck | durable closely woven cotton fabric |
| duck | amphibious military truck |
| ductia | vigorous stamping dance |
| dudgeon | resentment; offended resignation |
| duende | power to attract through personal charm |
| duenna | governess; chaperone |
| duffel | fabric of thick, low-quality woolen cloth |
| dugong | aquatic herbivorous mammal like the manatee |
| duiker | small African antelope |
| dulcian | a small early bassoon |
| dulcifluous | flowing sweetly |
| dulciloquent | speaking sweetly |
| dulia | inferior veneration of saints and angels in comparison with God |
| dulocracy | government by slaves; doulocracy |
| dulosis | slavery practiced by animals; especially ants |
| dumose | bushy |
| dump | obsolete English dance in 4/4 time |
| dun | dull greyish brown |
| duncical | stupid; dim-witted |
| dungaree | heavy coarse durable twilled cotton, usually coloured |
| duniwassal | a Scottish gentleman |
| dunnage | wood laid in hold to keep cargo dry and safe |
| dunnart | mouse-like marsupial with pointed snout |
| duodenary | of, like or pertaining to the number twelve |
| duomachy | duel or fight between two people |
| dupion | coarse silk |
| duramen | heartwood |
| durance | stout heavy wool-based fabric |
| durante | during |
| durative | continuing; not completed; undergoing transformation |
| dure | to last; to endure |
| durity | hardness |
| durometer | instrument for measuring hardness of substances |
| duroy | coarse woollen |
| duteous | devoted to duty; obedient |
| duumvirate | governing council or body of two individuals |
| duvetyn | smooth lustrous velvety fabric |
| dwale | stupefying drink |
| dwile | floorcloth or mop |
| dyarchy | government by two people; diarchy |
| dynamogenesis | production of increased nerve activity |
| dynamograph | instrument for recording mechanical forces |
| dynamometer | instrument for measuring mechanical force |
| dyne | unit of force to accelerate 1 gram to 1 cm per second per second |
| dyogram | ship's chart indicating compass deflection due to ship's iron |
| dyphone | double lute with fifty strings |
| dysaesthesia | loss of sensation |
| dysania | having a hard time waking up in the morning |
| dysbulia | loss of willpower |
| dyschroa | discoloration of the skin |
| dyschromatopic | colour-blind |
| dysgenesis | sterility in hybrid creatures |
| dysgenics | the study of racial degeneration |
| dyslogia | inability to express ideas due to mental incompetence |
| dyslogistic | conveying censure; opprobrious |
| dysmorphophobia | fear of physical deformities |
| dysphagia | pathological difficulty in swallowing |
| dysphemism | replacement of an inoffensive by an offensive word |
| dysphonia | physical abnormality causing speech impediment |
| dysphoria | uneasiness; restlessness; general depression |
| dystectic | not easily fused |
| dysteleology | study of purposeless organs; doctrine of purposelessness |
| dystocia | difficult childbirth |
| dystopia | place where all is as bad as possible |
| dziggetai | Mongolian wild ass |
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