- daring Dictionary lookup
adj. Brave.
- darkling Dictionary lookup
adv. Blindly.
- Darwinism Dictionary lookup
n. The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
- dastard Dictionary lookup
n. A base coward.
- datum Dictionary lookup
n. A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
- dauntless Dictionary lookup
adj. Fearless.
- day-man Dictionary lookup
n. A day-laborer.
- dead-heat Dictionary lookup
n. A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
- dearth Dictionary lookup
n. Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
- debase Dictionary lookup
v. To lower in character or virtue.
- debatable Dictionary lookup
adj. Subject to contention or dispute.
- debonair Dictionary lookup
adj. Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.
- debut Dictionary lookup
n. A first appearance in society or on the stage.
- decagon Dictionary lookup
n. A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
- decagram Dictionary lookup
n. A weight of 10 grams.
- decaliter Dictionary lookup
n. A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters.
- decalogue Dictionary lookup
n. The ten commandments.
- Decameron Dictionary lookup
n. A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
- decameter Dictionary lookup
n. A length of ten meters.
- decamp Dictionary lookup
v. To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
- decapitate Dictionary lookup
v. To behead.
- decapod Dictionary lookup
adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
- decasyllable Dictionary lookup
n. A line of ten syllables.
- deceit Dictionary lookup
n. Falsehood.
- deceitful Dictionary lookup
adj. Fraudulent.
- deceive Dictionary lookup
v. To mislead by or as by falsehood.
- decency Dictionary lookup
n. Moral fitness.
- decent Dictionary lookup
adj. Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
- deciduous Dictionary lookup
adj. Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
- decimal Dictionary lookup
adj. Founded on the number 10.
- decimate Dictionary lookup
v. To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
- decipher Dictionary lookup
v. To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
- decisive Dictionary lookup
ad. Conclusive.
- declamation Dictionary lookup
n. A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
- declamatory Dictionary lookup
adj. A full and formal style of utterance.
- declarative Dictionary lookup
adj. Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
- declension Dictionary lookup
n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender.
- decorate Dictionary lookup
v. To embellish.
- decorous Dictionary lookup
adj. Suitable for the occasion or circumstances.
- decoy Dictionary lookup
n. Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
- decrepit Dictionary lookup
adj. Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
- dedication Dictionary lookup
n. The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
- deduce Dictionary lookup
v. To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles.
- deface Dictionary lookup
v. To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
- defalcate Dictionary lookup
v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
- defamation Dictionary lookup
n. Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
- defame Dictionary lookup
v. To slander.
- default Dictionary lookup
n. The neglect or omission of a legal requirement.
- defendant Dictionary lookup
n. A person against whom a suit is brought.
- defensible Dictionary lookup
adj. Capable of being maintained or justified.
- defensive Dictionary lookup
adj. Carried on in resistance to aggression.
- defer Dictionary lookup
v. To delay or put off to some other time.
- defiant Dictionary lookup
adj. Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.
- deficiency Dictionary lookup
n. Lack or insufficiency.
- deficient Dictionary lookup
adj. Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
- definite Dictionary lookup
adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
- deflect Dictionary lookup
v. To cause to turn aside or downward.
- deforest Dictionary lookup
v. To clear of forests.
- deform Dictionary lookup
v. To disfigure.
- deformity Dictionary lookup
n. A disfigurement.
- defraud Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive of something dishonestly.
- defray Dictionary lookup
v. To make payment for.
- degeneracy Dictionary lookup
n. A becoming worse.
- degenerate Dictionary lookup
v. To become worse or inferior.
- degradation Dictionary lookup
n. Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
- degrade Dictionary lookup
v. To take away honors or position from.
- dehydrate Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive of water.
- deify Dictionary lookup
v. To regard or worship as a god.
- deign Dictionary lookup
v. To deem worthy of notice or account.
- deist Dictionary lookup
n. One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation.
- deity Dictionary lookup
n. A god, goddess, or divine person.
- deject Dictionary lookup
v. To dishearten.
- dejection Dictionary lookup
n. Melancholy.
- delectable Dictionary lookup
adj. Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
- delectation Dictionary lookup
n. Delight.
- deleterious Dictionary lookup
adj. Hurtful, morally or physically.
- delicacy Dictionary lookup
n. That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
- delineate Dictionary lookup
v. To represent by sketch or diagram.
- deliquesce Dictionary lookup
v. To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
- delirious Dictionary lookup
adj. Raving.
- delude Dictionary lookup
v. To mislead the mind or judgment of.
- deluge Dictionary lookup
v. To overwhelm with a flood of water.
- delusion Dictionary lookup
n. Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
- demagnetize Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
- demagogue Dictionary lookup
n. An unprincipled politician.
- demeanor Dictionary lookup
n. Deportment.
- demented Dictionary lookup
adj. Insane.
- demerit Dictionary lookup
n. A mark for failure or bad conduct.
- demise Dictionary lookup
n. Death.
- demobilize Dictionary lookup
v. To disband, as troops.
- demolish Dictionary lookup
v. To annihilate.
- demonstrable Dictionary lookup
adj. Capable of positive proof.
- demonstrate Dictionary lookup
v. To prove indubitably.
- demonstrative Dictionary lookup
adj. Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
- demonstrator Dictionary lookup
n. One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner.
- demulcent Dictionary lookup
n. Any application soothing to an irritable surface
- demurrage Dictionary lookup
n. the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
- dendroid Dictionary lookup
adj. Like a tree.
- dendrology Dictionary lookup
n. The natural history of trees.
- denizen Dictionary lookup
n. Inhabitant.
- denominate Dictionary lookup
v. To give a name or epithet to.
- denomination Dictionary lookup
n. A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
- denominator Dictionary lookup
n. Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
- denote Dictionary lookup
v. To designate by word or mark.
- denouement Dictionary lookup
n. That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
- denounce Dictionary lookup
v. To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
- dentifrice Dictionary lookup
n. Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
- denude Dictionary lookup
v. To strip the covering from.
- denunciation Dictionary lookup
n. The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
- deplete Dictionary lookup
v. To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
- deplorable Dictionary lookup
adj. Contemptible.
- deplore Dictionary lookup
v. To regard with grief or sorrow.
- deponent Dictionary lookup
adj. Laying down.
- depopulate Dictionary lookup
v. To remove the inhabitants from.
- deport Dictionary lookup
v. To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
- deportment Dictionary lookup
n. Demeanor.
- deposition Dictionary lookup
n. Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
- depositor Dictionary lookup
n. One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
- depository Dictionary lookup
n. A place where anything is kept in safety.
- deprave Dictionary lookup
v. To render bad, especially morally bad.
- deprecate Dictionary lookup
v. To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
- depreciate Dictionary lookup
v. To lessen the worth of.
- depreciation Dictionary lookup
n. A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
- depress Dictionary lookup
v. To press down.
- depression Dictionary lookup
n. A falling of the spirits.
- depth Dictionary lookup
n. Deepness.
- derelict Dictionary lookup
adj. Neglectful of obligation.
- deride Dictionary lookup
v. To ridicule.
- derisible Dictionary lookup
adj. Open to ridicule.
- derision Dictionary lookup
n. Ridicule.
- derivation Dictionary lookup
n. That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
- derivative Dictionary lookup
adj. Coming or acquired from some origin.
- derive Dictionary lookup
v. To deduce, as from a premise.
- dermatology Dictionary lookup
n. The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases.
- derrick Dictionary lookup
n. An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
- descendant Dictionary lookup
n. One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
- descendent Dictionary lookup
adj. Proceeding downward.
- descent Dictionary lookup
n. The act of moving or going downward.
- descry Dictionary lookup
v. To discern.
- desert Dictionary lookup
v. To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
- desiccant Dictionary lookup
n. Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
- designate Dictionary lookup
v. To select or appoint, as by authority.
- desist Dictionary lookup
v. To cease from action.
- desistance Dictionary lookup
n. Cessation.
- despair Dictionary lookup
n. Utter hopelessness and despondency.
- desperado Dictionary lookup
n. One without regard for law or life.
- desperate Dictionary lookup
adj. Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair.
- despicable Dictionary lookup
adj. Contemptible.
- despite Dictionary lookup
prep. In spite of.
- despond Dictionary lookup
v. To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
- despondent Dictionary lookup
adj. Disheartened.
- despot Dictionary lookup
n. An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
- despotism Dictionary lookup
n. Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
- destitute Dictionary lookup
adj. Poverty-stricken.
- desultory Dictionary lookup
adj. Not connected with what precedes.
- deter Dictionary lookup
v. To frighten away.
- deteriorate Dictionary lookup
v. To grow worse.
- determinate Dictionary lookup
adj. Definitely limited or fixed.
- determination Dictionary lookup
n. The act of deciding.
- deterrent Dictionary lookup
adj. Hindering from action through fear.
- detest Dictionary lookup
v. To dislike or hate with intensity.
- detract Dictionary lookup
v. To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
- detriment Dictionary lookup
n. Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
- detrude Dictionary lookup
v. To push down forcibly.
- deviate Dictionary lookup
v. To take a different course.
- devilry Dictionary lookup
n. Malicious mischief.
- deviltry Dictionary lookup
n. Wanton and malicious mischief.
- devious Dictionary lookup
adj. Out of the common or regular track.
- devise Dictionary lookup
v. To invent.
- devout Dictionary lookup
adj. Religious.
- dexterity Dictionary lookup
n. Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
- diabolic Dictionary lookup
adj. Characteristic of the devil.
- diacritical Dictionary lookup
adj. Marking a difference.
- diagnose Dictionary lookup
v. To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.
- diagnosis Dictionary lookup
n. Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease.
- dialect Dictionary lookup
n. Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
- dialectician Dictionary lookup
n. A logician.
- dialogue Dictionary lookup
n. A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
- diaphanous Dictionary lookup
adj. Transparent.
- diatomic Dictionary lookup
adj. Containing only two atoms.
- diatribe Dictionary lookup
n. A bitter or malicious criticism.
- dictum Dictionary lookup
n. A positive utterance.
- didactic Dictionary lookup
adj. Pertaining to teaching.
- difference Dictionary lookup
n. Dissimilarity in any respect.
- differentia Dictionary lookup
n. Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
- differential Dictionary lookup
adj. Distinctive.
- differentiate Dictionary lookup
v. To acquire a distinct and separate character.
- diffidence Dictionary lookup
n. Self-distrust.
- diffident Dictionary lookup
adj. Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
- diffusible Dictionary lookup
adj. Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
- diffusion Dictionary lookup
n. Dispersion.
- dignitary Dictionary lookup
n. One who holds high rank.
- digraph Dictionary lookup
n. A union of two characters representing a single sound.
- digress Dictionary lookup
v. To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
- dilapidated Dictionary lookup
pa. Fallen into decay or partial ruin.
- dilate Dictionary lookup
v. To enlarge in all directions.
- dilatory Dictionary lookup
adj. Tending to cause delay.
- dilemma Dictionary lookup
n. A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary.
- dilettante Dictionary lookup
n. A superficial amateur.
- diligence Dictionary lookup
n. Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.
- dilute Dictionary lookup
v. To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.
- diminution Dictionary lookup
n. Reduction.
- dimly Dictionary lookup
adv. Obscurely.
- diphthong Dictionary lookup
n. The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
- diplomacy Dictionary lookup
n. Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
- diplomat Dictionary lookup
n. A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
- diplomatic Dictionary lookup
adj. Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
- diplomatist Dictionary lookup
n. One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
- disagree Dictionary lookup
v. To be opposite in opinion.
- disallow Dictionary lookup
v. To withhold permission or sanction.
- disappear Dictionary lookup
v. To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
- disappoint Dictionary lookup
v. To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
- disapprove Dictionary lookup
v. To regard with blame.
- disarm Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive of weapons.
- disarrange Dictionary lookup
v. To throw out of order.
- disavow Dictionary lookup
v. To disclaim responsibility for.
- disavowal Dictionary lookup
n. Denial.
- disbeliever Dictionary lookup
n. One who refuses to believe.
- disburden Dictionary lookup
v. To disencumber.
- disburse Dictionary lookup
v. To pay out or expend, as money from a fund. discard v. To reject.
- discernible Dictionary lookup
adj. Perceivable.
- disciple Dictionary lookup
n. One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
- disciplinary Dictionary lookup
adj. Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
- discipline Dictionary lookup
v. To train to obedience.
- disclaim Dictionary lookup
v. To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
- discolor Dictionary lookup
v. To stain.
- discomfit Dictionary lookup
v. To put to confusion.
- discomfort Dictionary lookup
n. The state of being positively uncomfortable.
- disconnect Dictionary lookup
v. To undo or dissolve the connection or association of.
- disconsolate Dictionary lookup
adj. Grief-stricken.
- discontinuance Dictionary lookup
n. Interruption or intermission.
- discord Dictionary lookup
n. Absence of harmoniousness.
- discountenance Dictionary lookup
v. To look upon with disfavor.
- discover Dictionary lookup
v. To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived.
- discredit Dictionary lookup
v. To injure the reputation of.
- discreet Dictionary lookup
adj. Judicious.
- discrepant Dictionary lookup
adj. Opposite.
- discriminate Dictionary lookup
v. To draw a distinction.
- discursive Dictionary lookup
adj. Passing from one subject to another.
- discussion Dictionary lookup
n. Debate.
- disenfranchise Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive of any right privilege or power
- disengage Dictionary lookup
v. To become detached.
- disfavor Dictionary lookup
n. Disregard.
- disfigure Dictionary lookup
v. To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
- dishabille Dictionary lookup
n. Undress or negligent attire.
- dishonest Dictionary lookup
adj. Untrustworthy.
- disillusion Dictionary lookup
v. To disenchant.
- disinfect Dictionary lookup
v. To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases.
- disinfectant Dictionary lookup
n. A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
- disinherit Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive of an inheritance.
- disinterested Dictionary lookup
adj. Impartial.
- disjunctive Dictionary lookup
adj. Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
- dislocate Dictionary lookup
v. To put out of proper place or order.
- dismissal Dictionary lookup
n. Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
- dismount Dictionary lookup
v. To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
- disobedience Dictionary lookup
n. Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
- disobedient Dictionary lookup
adj. Neglecting or refusing to obey.
- disparage Dictionary lookup
v. To regard or speak of slightingly.
- disparity Dictionary lookup
n. Inequality.
- dispel Dictionary lookup
v. To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
- dispensation Dictionary lookup
n. That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
- displace Dictionary lookup
v. To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
- dispossess Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
- disputation Dictionary lookup
n. Verbal controversy.
- disqualify Dictionary lookup
v. To debar.
- disquiet Dictionary lookup
v. To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
- disregard Dictionary lookup
v. To take no notice of.
- disreputable Dictionary lookup
adj. Dishonorable or disgraceful.
- disrepute Dictionary lookup
n. A bad name or character.
- disrobe Dictionary lookup
v. To unclothe.
- disrupt Dictionary lookup
v. To burst or break asunder.
- dissatisfy Dictionary lookup
v. To displease.
- dissect Dictionary lookup
v. To cut apart or to pieces.
- dissection Dictionary lookup
n. The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
- dissemble Dictionary lookup
v. To hide by pretending something different.
- disseminate Dictionary lookup
v. To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
- dissension Dictionary lookup
n. Angry or violent difference of opinion.
- dissent Dictionary lookup
n. Disagreement.
- dissentient Dictionary lookup
n. One who disagrees.
- dissentious Dictionary lookup
adj. Contentious.
- dissertation Dictionary lookup
n. Thesis.
- disservice Dictionary lookup
n. An ill turn.
- dissever Dictionary lookup
v. To divide.
- dissimilar Dictionary lookup
adj. Different.
- dissipate Dictionary lookup
v. To disperse or disappear.
- dissipation Dictionary lookup
n. The state of being dispersed or scattered.
- dissolute Dictionary lookup
adj. Lewd.
- dissolution Dictionary lookup
n. A breaking up of a union of persons.
- dissolve Dictionary lookup
v. To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
- dissonance Dictionary lookup
n. Discord.
- dissonant Dictionary lookup
adj. Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
- dissuade Dictionary lookup
v. To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading.
- dissuasion Dictionary lookup
n. The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
- distemper Dictionary lookup
n. A disease or malady.
- distend Dictionary lookup
v. To stretch out or expand in every direction.
- distensible Dictionary lookup
adj. Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
- distention Dictionary lookup
n. Expansion.
- distill Dictionary lookup
v. To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
- distillation Dictionary lookup
n. Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
- distiller Dictionary lookup
n. One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
- distinction Dictionary lookup
n. A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies.
- distort Dictionary lookup
v. To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
- distrain Dictionary lookup
v. To subject a person to distress.
- distrainor Dictionary lookup
n. One who subjects a person to distress.
- distraught Dictionary lookup
adj. Bewildered.
- distrust Dictionary lookup
n. Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person.
- disunion Dictionary lookup
n. Separation of relations or interests.
- disyllable Dictionary lookup
n. A word of two syllables.
- diurnal Dictionary lookup
adj. Daily.
- divagation Dictionary lookup
n. Digression.
- divergent Dictionary lookup
adj. Tending in different directions.
- diverse Dictionary lookup
adj. Capable of various forms.
- diversion Dictionary lookup
n. Pastime.
- diversity Dictionary lookup
n. Dissimilitude.
- divert Dictionary lookup
v. To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- divertible Dictionary lookup
adj. Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- divest Dictionary lookup
v. To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
- divination Dictionary lookup
n. The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
- divinity Dictionary lookup
n. The quality or character of being godlike.
- divisible Dictionary lookup
adj. Capable of being separated into parts.
- divisor Dictionary lookup
n. That by which a number or quantity is divided.
- divulge Dictionary lookup
v. To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
- divulgence Dictionary lookup
n. A divulging.
- docile Dictionary lookup
adj. Easy to manage.
- docket Dictionary lookup
n. The registry of judgments of a court.
- doe Dictionary lookup
n. The female of the deer.
- dogma Dictionary lookup
n. A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
- dogmatic Dictionary lookup
adj. Making statements without argument or evidence.
- dogmatize Dictionary lookup
v. To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
- doleful Dictionary lookup
adj. Melancholy.
- dolesome Dictionary lookup
adj. Melancholy.
- dolor Dictionary lookup
n. Lamentation.
- dolorous Dictionary lookup
adj. Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
- domain Dictionary lookup
n. A sphere or field of action or interest.
- domicile Dictionary lookup
n. The place where one lives.
- dominance Dictionary lookup
n. Ascendancy.
- dominant Dictionary lookup
adj. Conspicuously prominent.
- dominate Dictionary lookup
v. To influence controllingly.
- domination Dictionary lookup
n. Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority.
- domineer Dictionary lookup
v. To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
- donate Dictionary lookup
v. To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause.
- donator Dictionary lookup
n. One who makes a donation or present.
- donee Dictionary lookup
n. A person to whom a donation is made.
- donor Dictionary lookup
n. One who makes a donation or present.
- dormant Dictionary lookup
adj. Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
- doublet Dictionary lookup
n. One of a pair of like things.
- doubly Dictionary lookup
adv. In twofold degree or extent.
- dowry Dictionary lookup
n. The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage.
- drachma Dictionary lookup
n. A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
- dragnet Dictionary lookup
n. A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
- dragoon Dictionary lookup
n. In the British army, a cavalryman.
- drainage Dictionary lookup
n. The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
- dramatist Dictionary lookup
n. One who writes plays.
- dramatize Dictionary lookup
v. To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
- drastic Dictionary lookup
adj. Acting vigorously.
- drought Dictionary lookup
n. Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
- drowsy Dictionary lookup
adj. Heavy with sleepiness.
- drudgery Dictionary lookup
n. Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation.
- dubious Dictionary lookup
adj. Doubtful.
- duckling Dictionary lookup
n. A young duck.
- ductile Dictionary lookup
adj. Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
- duet Dictionary lookup
n. A composition for two voices or instruments.
- dun Dictionary lookup
v. To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.
- duplex Dictionary lookup
adj. Having two parts.
- duplicity Dictionary lookup
n. Double-dealing.
- durance Dictionary lookup
n. Confinement.
- duration Dictionary lookup
n. The period of time during which anything lasts.
- duteous Dictionary lookup
adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
- dutiable Dictionary lookup
adj. Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
- dutiful Dictionary lookup
adj. Obedient.
- dwindle Dictionary lookup
v. To diminish or become less.
- dyne Dictionary lookup
n. The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.