| dope | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| (noun) slang terms for inside information | Synonyms: low-down, poop, the skinny |
| (noun) carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts | Synonyms: cola |
| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead |
| doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| dorbeetle | (noun) Old World dung beetle that flies with a droning sound | - |
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| dork | (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: jerk |
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| dorm | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
| dormer | (noun) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window | Synonyms: dormer window |
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| dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| (noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
| dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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| dorsiflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
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| dorsum | (noun) the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part) | - |
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| (noun) the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | Synonyms: back |
| dory | (noun) marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters | - |
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| (noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleye, walleyed pike |
| (noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dinghy, rowboat |
| dosage | (noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
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| (noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
| dose | (noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | Synonyms: dosage |
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| (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
| (noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | Synonyms: dosage |
| (noun) a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact | Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse |
| dosemeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosimeter |
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| dosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosemeter |
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| dosimetry | (noun) measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source | - |
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| dossal | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossel |
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| dossel | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossal |
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| dosser | (noun) someone who sleeps in any convenient place | Synonyms: street person |
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| dosshouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: flophouse |
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| dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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| dot | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
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| (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dit |
| (noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: point |
| dotage | (noun) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Synonyms: second childhood, senility |
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| dotard | (noun) an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect | - |
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| dotrel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
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| dottle | (noun) the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking | - |
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| double | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base | Synonyms: two-bagger, two-base hit, two-baser |
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| (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: doubling |
| (noun) a quantity that is twice as great as another | - |
| (noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: image, look-alike |
| (noun) a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts | - |
| doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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| doubler | (noun) an electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal | - |
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| doubles | (noun) tennis played with two players on each side | - |
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| (noun) badminton played with two players on each side | - |
| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| doublet | (noun) a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance | - |
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| doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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| doubleton | (noun) (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | - |
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| doubletree | (noun) a crossbar on a wagon or carriage to which two whiffletrees are attached in order to harness two horses abreast | - |
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| doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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| (noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
| doubloon | (noun) a former Spanish gold coin | - |
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| doubt | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiousness, question |
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| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
| doubter | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: sceptic, skeptic |
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| (noun) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | Synonyms: agnostic |
| doubtfulness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiousness, question |
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| (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
| douche | (noun) irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents | - |
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| (noun) a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas | Synonyms: douche bag |
| dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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| (noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
| doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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| doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
| doula | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, labor coach, monitrice |
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| doura | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: dourah, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| dourah | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| douroucouli | (noun) nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur | Synonyms: Aotus trivirgatus |
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| dousing | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: ducking, immersion, submersion |
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| dove | (noun) any of numerous small pigeons | - |
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| (noun) an emblem of peace | - |
| (noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: squab |
| (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: peacenik |
| dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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| dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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| dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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| dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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| dowdiness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: drabness, homeliness |
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| dowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: pandowdy |
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| dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
| dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| down | (noun) (American football) a complete play to advance the football | - |
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| (noun) soft fine feathers | Synonyms: down feather |
| (noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: pile |
| (noun) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | - |
| downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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| downcast | (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
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| downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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| downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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| downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
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| (noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
| downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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| downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| downhill | (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
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| (noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
| downiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: featheriness, fluffiness |
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| downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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| (noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
| downside | (noun) a negative aspect of something that is generally positive | - |
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| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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| downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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| downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| downtime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) | - |
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| downtown | (noun) the central area or commercial center of a town or city | Synonyms: business district |
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| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| dowry | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, portion |
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| dowse | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowsing, rhabdomancy |
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| dowser | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder |
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| (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: rhabdomancer, water witch |
| dowsing | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, rhabdomancy |
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| doxazosin | (noun) an antihypertensive drug (trade name Cardura) that works by relaxing blood vessels so that blood passes through them more easily; it is also used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia | Synonyms: Cardura |
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| doxepin | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances) | Synonyms: Adapin, doxepin hydrochloride, Sinequan |
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| doxing | (noun) Releasing someone's personal information on the Web with the intention of causing harassment | - |
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| doxology | (noun) a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God | - |
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| doxorubicin | (noun) an antibiotic used as an anticancer drug | - |
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| doxy | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, courtesan, paramour |
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