| dadaism | (noun) a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | Synonyms: dada |
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| daikon | (noun) radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Japanese radish, radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus |
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| daily | (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, everyday |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or occurring every day | Synonyms: day-after-day, day-by-day, day-to-day |
| (noun) a newspaper that is published every day | - |
| (adverb) every day; without missing a day | - |
| (adverb) gradually and progressively | Synonyms: day by day |
| daimon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| daintily | (adverb) in a dainty and fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner suggestive of delicate beauty or grace | - |
| daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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| dainty | (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) especially pleasing to the taste | - |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| daiquiri | (noun) a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice | Synonyms: rum cocktail |
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| dairy | (noun) a farm where dairy products are produced | Synonyms: dairy farm |
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| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| dais | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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| daishiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: dashiki |
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| daisy | (noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl | - |
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| daisybush | (noun) any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays | Synonyms: daisy-bush, daisy bush |
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| daisylike | (adjective) resembling a daisy | - |
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| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| disdain | (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, patronage |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, scorn |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, scorn |
| disdainful | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, insulting, scornful |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| disdainfully | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, contumeliously, scornfully |
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| (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: cavalierly |
| disdainfulness | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: condescension, superciliousness |
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| eudaimonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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| foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
| foreordained | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: predestinate, predestined |
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| hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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| lackadaisical | (adjective) idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way | - |
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| (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, languid, languorous |
| lackadaisically | (adverb) in an idle and lackadaisical manner | - |
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| midair | (noun) some point in the air; above ground level | - |
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| ordain | (verb) issue an order | - |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, order, ordinate |
| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: enact |
| (verb) invest with ministerial or priestly authority | - |
| ordained | (adjective) invested with ministerial or priestly functions | - |
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| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, prescribed |
| ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| spondaic | (adjective) of or consisting of spondees | - |
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| spondaise | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaize |
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| spondaize | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaise |
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