| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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| danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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| dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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| danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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| danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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| daphne | (noun) any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers | - |
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| daphnia | (noun) minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae | Synonyms: water flea |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| dapple | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: fleck, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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| dapsone | (noun) antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases | - |
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| daraf | (noun) a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad | - |
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| dare | (noun) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy | Synonyms: daring |
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| daredevil | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| daring | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, hardihood, hardiness |
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| (noun) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy | Synonyms: dare |
| dark | (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: darkness |
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| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: darkness, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: darkness, wickedness |
| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: night, nighttime |
| darkening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
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| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
| darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| darling | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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| darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dart | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: flit |
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| (noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking | - |
| (noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot | - |
| 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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| darter | (noun) a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly | - |
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| (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird |
| darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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| das | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, dassie, hyrax |
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| dash | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: sprint |
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| (noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: bolt |
| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: elan, flair, panache, style |
| (noun) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dah |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text | Synonyms: hyphen |
| (noun) a footrace run at top speed | - |
| 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 |
| dashcam | (noun) A camera filming from the dashboard of a car | - |
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| dasheen | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, eddo, taro |
| dashiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: daishiki |
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| dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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| dastard | (noun) a despicable coward | - |
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| dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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| dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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| dasyure | (noun) any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens | - |
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| dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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| data | (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: information |
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| database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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| date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
| (noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
| (noun) the present | - |
| (noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
| (noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
| dateline | (noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | Synonyms: date line, International Date Line |
| dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| datum | (noun) an item of factual information derived from measurement or research | Synonyms: data point |
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| daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (noun) material used to daub walls | - |
| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| dauphin | (noun) formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne | - |
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| davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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| daw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, jackdaw |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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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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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dawn | (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: morning |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| (noun) an opening time period | - |
| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| day | (noun) a period of opportunity | - |
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| (noun) time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis | Synonyms: 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours |
| (noun) a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance | - |
| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: daylight, daytime |
| (noun) a point or period in time | - |
| (noun) the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working) | - |
| (noun) an era of existence or influence | - |
| (noun) the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day | Synonyms: sidereal day |
| (noun) the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis | - |
| 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 |
| daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
| dayboy | (noun) a day boarder who is a boy | - |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daycare | (noun) childcare during the day while parents work | Synonyms: day care |
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| daydream | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| daydreaming | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| dayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: mayfly, shadfly |
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| daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| daylily | (noun) any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day | Synonyms: day lily |
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| days | (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: years |
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| dayspring | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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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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| daytime | (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daylight |
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| daze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: fog, haze |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: shock, stupor |
| dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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| deacon | (noun) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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| (noun) a Protestant layman who assists the minister | Synonyms: Protestant deacon |
| deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| 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 | - |
| deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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| deadbolt | (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: bolt |
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| deadening | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
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| deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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| (noun) a dead shot | - |
| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| deadline | (noun) the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
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