| benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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| birthday | (noun) an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| (noun) the date on which a person was born | Synonyms: natal day |
| caranday | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda, caranda palm, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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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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| (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| 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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| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| (adverb) during the entire day | Synonyms: all day long |
| 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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| doomsday | (noun) an unpleasant or disastrous destiny | Synonyms: day of reckoning, doom, end of the world |
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| (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, end of the world, eschaton, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| fedayeen | (noun) (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel | - |
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| funday | (noun) Sunday as a day for relaxing and having fun | - |
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| heyday | (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, peak, prime |
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| holiday | (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: vacation |
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| (noun) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom | - |
| (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| midday | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon |
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| noonday | (noun) the middle of the day | Synonyms: high noon, midday, noon, noontide, twelve noon |
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| nowadays | (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: present |
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| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, today |
| payday | (noun) the day on which you receive pay for your work | - |
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| playday | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playtime |
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| schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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| someday | (adverb) some unspecified time in the future | - |
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| today | (noun) the present time or age | - |
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| (noun) the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow) | - |
| (adverb) on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow | - |
| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, nowadays |
| washday | (noun) a day set aside for doing household laundry | Synonyms: washing day |
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| weekday | (noun) any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) | - |
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| workaday | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable |
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| workday | (noun) the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage | Synonyms: working day |
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| (noun) a day on which work is done | Synonyms: work day, working day |
| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| (adverb) on the day preceding today | - |
| (adverb) in the recent past; only a short time ago | - |