| dkg | (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: dag, decagram, dekagram |
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| dkl | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre |
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| dkm | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre |
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| dock | (noun) the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair | - |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, bobtail |
| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dockage, docking facility |
| (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage |
| (noun) an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial | - |
| (noun) a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded | Synonyms: loading dock |
| (noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: sorrel, sour grass |
| dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
| (noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
| docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| docket | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, schedule |
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| (noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities | - |
| dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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| dockside | (noun) the region adjacent to a boat dock | - |
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| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doeskin | (noun) a fine smooth soft woolen fabric | - |
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| (noun) soft leather from deerskin or lambskin | - |
| donkey | (noun) domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn | Synonyms: domestic ass, Equus asinus |
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| (noun) the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
| donkeywork | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: drudgery, grind, plodding |
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| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| doorknob | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorhandle |
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| doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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| doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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| dork | (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: jerk |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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| dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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| downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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| downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| drake | (noun) adult male of a wild or domestic duck | - |
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| drawback | (noun) the quality of being a hindrance | - |
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| drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
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| drawnwork | (noun) ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns | - |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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| drekkar | (noun) a Viking longship, described in historical sources as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering. | - |
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| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| drinkable | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
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| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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| dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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| droshky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: drosky |
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| drosky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: droshky |
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| drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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| (noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
| drunk | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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| duck | (noun) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents | - |
| (noun) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) | - |
| (noun) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman | Synonyms: duck's egg |
| duckbill | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus |
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| (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: paddlefish, Polyodon spathula |
| duckboard | (noun) a boardwalk laid across muddy ground | - |
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| ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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| (noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| duckpin | (noun) a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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| duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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| duckweed | (noun) any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds | - |
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| ducky | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| duke | (noun) a British peer of the highest rank | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank | - |
| dukedom | (noun) the domain controlled by a duke or duchess | Synonyms: duchy |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a duke | - |
| dunk | (noun) a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket | Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot |
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| dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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| (noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
| dunnock | (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow |
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| dusk | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| duskiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: dimness |
| dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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| dybbuk | (noun) (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior | Synonyms: dibbuk |
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| dyke | (noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea | Synonyms: dam, dike |
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| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: butch, dike |
| dyskinesia | (noun) abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements | - |
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| earmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: hallmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal | - |
| earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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| (noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
| earthwork | (noun) an earthen rampart | - |
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| eggshake | (noun) a milkshake with egg in it | - |
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| eggwhisk | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggbeater |
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| electroshock | (noun) the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma | Synonyms: ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy |
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| elk | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, moose |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti |
| (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, wapiti |
| elkhound | (noun) breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy grey coat developed in Norway for hunting elk | Synonyms: Norwegian elkhound |
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| elkwood | (noun) small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches | Synonyms: elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala, umbrella magnolia, umbrella tree |
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| embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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| embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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| enkephalin | (noun) an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere | - |
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| enterokinase | (noun) enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin | - |
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| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| esker | (noun) (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | - |
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| eukaryote | (noun) an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells | Synonyms: eucaryote |
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| exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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| fake | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: juke |
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| (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: postiche, sham |
| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
| fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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| faker | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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| fakir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, faqir, faquir |
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| fallback | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, pullout |
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| fanaloka | (noun) civet of Madagascar | Synonyms: Fossa fossa |
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| fancywork | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: embroidery |
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| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| fartlek | (noun) a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise | - |
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| fatback | (noun) salt pork from the back of a hog carcass | - |
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| fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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