| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| daystar | (noun) a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky | Synonyms: Lucifer, morning star, Phosphorus |
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| dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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| (noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
| (noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
| (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
| dear | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: lamb |
| debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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| debater | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: arguer |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debitor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debtor |
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| debtor | (noun) a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt | Synonyms: debitor |
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| debugger | (noun) a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors | - |
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| decaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| decameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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| decanter | (noun) a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water | Synonyms: carafe |
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| deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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| deciliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: decilitre, dl |
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| decimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimetre, dm |
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| decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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| (noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
| decker | (noun) (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels | - |
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| declarer | (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: contractor |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, avower |
| declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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| decoder | (noun) a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language | - |
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| (noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decipherer |
| decor | (noun) decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior | Synonyms: interior decoration |
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| decorator | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: ornamentalist |
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| (noun) a person who specializes in interior decoration | Synonyms: house decorator, interior decorator, room decorator |
| deer | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: cervid |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| defalcator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: embezzler, peculator |
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| defamer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| defaulter | (noun) a contestant who forfeits a match | - |
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| (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: deadbeat |
| (noun) someone who fails to make a required appearance in court | - |
| defecator | (noun) (obsolete) that which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups. | - |
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| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: shitter, voider |
| defector | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: deserter |
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| defender | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: guardian, protector, shielder |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: withstander |
| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| defiler | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: polluter |
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| deflator | (noun) a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars | - |
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| deflector | (noun) a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc) | - |
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| defoliator | (noun) an insect that strips the leaves from plants | - |
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| defrauder | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| defroster | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: deicer |
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| degrader | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: debaser |
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| degreaser | (noun) a chemical substance that dissolves water-insoluble substances, such as greases and oils. | - |
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| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| deicer | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: defroster |
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| dejeuner | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: lunch, luncheon, tiffin |
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| dekaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekalitre, dkl |
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| dekameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekametre, dkm |
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| delayer | (noun) a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late | - |
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| delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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| deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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| (noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
| (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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| demeanor | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, deportment |
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| demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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| demodulator | (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: detector |
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| demographer | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographist, population scientist |
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| demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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| (noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
| (noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
| demur | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demurral, demurrer |
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| demurrer | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, denial |
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| (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurral |
| (noun) (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings | - |
| denier | (noun) any of various former European coins of different denominations | - |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon | - |
| (noun) one who denies | - |
| denitrator | (noun) Any device used to remove nitrates or other nitrogen compounds, especially from water. | - |
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| denominator | (noun) the divisor of a fraction | - |
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| densimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densitometer |
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| densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
| deodar | (noun) tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber | Synonyms: Cedrus deodara, deodar cedar, Himalayan cedar |
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| departer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: goer, leaver |
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| depilator | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilatory, epilator |
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| deposer | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, testifier |
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| depositor | (noun) a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution | - |
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| depreciator | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: detractor, disparager, knocker |
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| depressor | (noun) a device used by physician to press a part down or aside | - |
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| (noun) any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down | Synonyms: depressor muscle |
| (noun) any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves | Synonyms: depressor nerve |
| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who descends | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| deserter | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: defector |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
| detector | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: sensing element, sensor |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity | - |
| (noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: demodulator |
| determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
| detonator | (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: cap, detonating device |
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| detour | (noun) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | Synonyms: roundabout way |
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| detractor | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker |
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| developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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| (noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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| devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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| devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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| dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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| diameter | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diam |
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| (noun) a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface) | - |
| diaper | (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: napkin, nappy |
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| (noun) a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures | - |
| diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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| dibber | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibble |
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| dicer | (noun) a mechanical device used for dicing food | - |
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| dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
| (noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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