custard | (noun) sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen | - |
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cyanamid | (noun) a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) | Synonyms: cyanamide |
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cycad | (noun) any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves | - |
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cycloid | (noun) a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line | - |
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cymbid | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers | Synonyms: cymbidium |
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cyprinid | (noun) soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales | Synonyms: cyprinid fish |
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d | (noun) the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: D |
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dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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dad | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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daggerboard | (noun) a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel | - |
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dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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damned | (noun) people who are condemned to eternal punishment | - |
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danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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dartboard | (noun) a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts | Synonyms: dart board |
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dashboard | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: fascia |
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(noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: splashboard, splasher |
dastard | (noun) a despicable coward | - |
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dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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(noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
dead | (noun) people who are no longer living | - |
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(noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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(noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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(noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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(noun) the last few hours before death | - |
decapod | (noun) crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax | Synonyms: decapod crustacean |
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(noun) cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones | - |
deceased | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed |
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deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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deed | (noun) something that people do or cause to happen | Synonyms: act, human action, human activity |
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(noun) a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it | Synonyms: deed of conveyance, title |
deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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defeated | (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: discomfited |
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deltoid | (noun) a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm | Synonyms: deltoid muscle, musculus deltoideus |
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demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
(noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
(noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
demantoid | (noun) a green andradite used as a gemstone | - |
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demigod | (noun) a person who is part mortal and part god | Synonyms: daemon |
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(noun) a person with great powers and abilities | Synonyms: superman, Ubermensch |
departed | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent |
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desmid | (noun) freshwater green algae | - |
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devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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diamond | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield |
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(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it | - |
(noun) the baseball playing field | Synonyms: ball field, baseball field |
(noun) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: rhomb, rhombus |
(noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: adamant |
diapsid | (noun) reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye | Synonyms: diapsid reptile |
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dicamptodontid | (noun) salamanders found near cold streams throughout the year | Synonyms: dicamptodon |
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dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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dickhead | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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diehard | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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dihybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each | - |
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diploid | (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number | - |
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disabled | (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: handicapped |
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discard | (noun) getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable | Synonyms: throwing away |
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(noun) (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit | - |
(noun) anything that is cast aside or discarded | - |
discomfited | (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: defeated |
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discord | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discordance |
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(noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discordance |
(noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: dissension |
(noun) lack of agreement or harmony | Synonyms: strife |
disregard | (noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: neglect |
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(noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: neglect |
dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
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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dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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dogsled | (noun) a sled pulled by dogs | Synonyms: dog sled, dog sleigh |
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dogwood | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: cornel, dogwood tree |
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(noun) hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood | - |
doodad | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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doomed | (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: lost |
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dooryard | (noun) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house | - |
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dotard | (noun) an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect | - |
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dragonhead | (noun) American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers | Synonyms: Dracocephalum parviflorum, dragon's head |
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drainboard | (noun) a board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink | Synonyms: draining board |
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dread | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
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dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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dropseed | (noun) a grass of the genus Sporobolus | Synonyms: drop-seed |
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drumhead | (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
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drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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duad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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duckboard | (noun) a boardwalk laid across muddy ground | - |
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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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dud | (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, turkey |
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(noun) an explosion that fails to occur | Synonyms: misfire |
(noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: flop, washout |
dullard | (noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: bore |
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(noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
dunderhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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dyad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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dyeweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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dyewood | (noun) any wood from which dye is obtained | - |
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eastward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, east |
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ecdysteroid | (noun) #DD: The name 'ecdysteroid' refers to the insect moulting and sex hormones which include ecdysone and its homologues such as 20-hydroxyecdysone. | - |
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egghead | (noun) an intellectual; a very studious and academic person | - |
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eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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eland | (noun) either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes | - |
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elapid | (noun) any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres | Synonyms: elapid snake |
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elaterid | (noun) any of various widely distributed beetles | Synonyms: elater, elaterid beetle |
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eld | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, geezerhood, old age, years |
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(noun) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | Synonyms: age |
elevated | (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
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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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ellipsoid | (noun) a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | - |
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ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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(noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
end | (noun) the part you are expected to play | - |
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(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line | - |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: oddment, remainder, remnant |
(noun) a final part or section | - |
(noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it | Synonyms: goal |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, ending |
(noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: last |
(noun) either extremity of something that has length | Synonyms: terminal |
(noun) a boundary marking the extremities of something | - |
(noun) the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object | - |
(noun) one of two places from which people are communicating to each other | - |
(noun) (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, destruction |
(noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: ending |
endband | (noun) a part of a book, most often found with hardcover bindings, that consists of a small cord or strip of material affixed near the spine to provide structural reinforcement and sometimes decorative effect. | - |
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energid | (noun) a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts | Synonyms: protoplast |
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enlightened | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
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ennead | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine, niner |
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ephemerid | (noun) short-lived insect | Synonyms: ephemeropteran |
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epicycloid | (noun) a line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle | - |
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equid | (noun) hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck | Synonyms: equine |
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